Editing Dawn of War III (section)

==Pre-Release Reactions==
The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7JNTfrK3Yk 12 minute exclusive gameplay] released shortly after the trailer drew quite a lot of [[Skub|ire.]] With many complaining on the way it looks (having a cleaner, more colorful aesthetic in comparison to previous titles) with rumors that the team developing Dawn of War III was trying to piggyback [[Blizzard|Starcraft]] [[RAGE|of all games]] to the animation lacking the weight and grit of the previous Dawn of War games. Special mentions go to the fighting style animations of [[Gabriel Angelos|old Gabe]] [[What|whose sudden usage of backflips, frontflips and jumping like a 5 ton ballerina on crack]] [[Fail|despite wearing terminator armor]] [[RAGE|drew accusations that one of the lead creators of this game]] [[C.S. Goto|might be a small, black leprechaun with a fetish of Multilasers and backflipping Terminators.]] Hell, the goddamn Lascannons don't fire a [[Indrick Boreale|quick, charged, devastating single shot]] but instead its a [[lance|laser weapon that does more damage the longer it's trained on its target]]. 

Later interviews and bits of information released did little to ease the [[Skub|ire.]] Including the lead director confirming that sync-kills have been removed, Assault Marines being considered [[What|"light armor"]] units, the dynamic movement system introduced in II being removed, and fall back mechanics are also gone. At this point from a community standpoint, you were either absolutely behind these changes, or were watching something your were previously looking forward to turn into an absolute shitshow; with very little middle ground to be found. And it really doesn't help that their methods of explaining away some of the lore breaking shit seems to come directly from our [[C.S. Goto|good old friend]]. Notably they tried to explain the backflipping Terminator armor by saying that [[What|his hammer has a shard of an Avatar in it]]. This also happened to be an idea made by the Irish leper, and even if it was canon the developers never mentioned what this actually did to give Angelos the ability to backflip, making this move look like a hand-wave to shut the fans up.

Reactions to the beta did little to assuage the divide in the community. Some, like AngryJoe, thoroughly enjoyed it, while others, like TotalBiscuit, seemed to be completely turned off by it.

Voice Acting has taken a big change, with Relic opting to go for an all British cast (except for Brian Dobson) rather than using their stable of Ocean Group VAs from previous titles. The rationale behind this is that having British voice actors makes the game more authentic to 40K's British roots, and totally not because of the ongoing voice actors strike against major video game publishers in North America that Sega, and thus Relic, isn't affected by anyway.