Overview
Relic Amusement occurs as gage development company that specializes around 3d real-instance strategy games & has freed the total of innovative PC titles, including Homeworld, Impossible Creatures, Homeworld 2, and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War. Presently around production come the World War II-themed games The Outfit, an Xbox 360-based action game, & Company of Heroes, a PC real time strategy game. Relic has upright released an expansion few dozen to Dawn of War, known as Winter Assault.

History
Relic was began around Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada by Alex Garden and Luke Moloney in 1997. Their 1st title, Homeworld, was freed to critical plaudit & successful sales. Though it did non immediately prove my point working on the franchise (Sierra Entertainment, the back's publisher owned a rights), a game did have a spin-by-product, Homeworld: Cataclysm, developed by Barking Dog Studios and published by Sierra.

Their next title was Impossible Creatures, produced and freed by Microsoft in 2002. It focused in a invented environment when you took the 1930s, allowing players to project units from different anatomical parts of creature. A game wwhen successful, though it did non receive a equivalent attention as Homeworld.

Inside September 2003, a sequel Homeworld 2 was released. Although it boasted improved graphics & features & changed occasionally elements of gameplay from either a original, reviews cited occasionally issues & did non score it when extremely when its predecessor.

In April 27, 2004, publisher THQ announced it was acquiring Relic withwithin an completely-cash dealing, complementary in early Might, 2004.

Dawn of War and Beyond
Relic so freed Dawn of War, an RTS based on Games Workshop's popular Warhammer 40,000 franchise. the game was a profits, getting skillful reviews & around contention for game of the month around numbers of magazines.

Around early 2005, Relic announced a fresh PC RTS game, Company of Heroes, as well as an expansion for Dawn of War title Dawn of War: Winter Assault. This expansion has since been freed. Shortly fallowing, Relic as well announced the fresh Xbox 360-based action game titled The Outfit. Two freshly games come placed within World War II Europe. Company of Heroes has received very much attention from either play click & has been awarded "best of the show" at E3 by numbers of websites & magazines. A Outfit has received less attention.