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Second best RTS game ever (Starcraft)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Starcraft was ground breaking when it came out.

This is the latest ground breaking RTS game.

Get the version with the expansion "Winter Assult" included. They made some pretty good updates with that expansion.

One of the best Strategy Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've never played a strategy game like this. Intense fighting and music to boot.

In the future there is only war...and Dawn of War sure captures it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: April 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Relic has done something which many Games Workshop fans have been wishing for all these many long years. They finally took the Warhammer 40,000 franchise, with its rich and detailed history and background, and turned it into a fun and rich RTS. Dawn of War brings to the RTS genre of gaming new innovations which gives the game a unique look in terms of gameplay. Relic really brought the grim future of Warhammer 40k and it truly nothing but war.

Dawn of War uses many of the basic concepts of past real-time strategy games like Starcraft (in my opinion a knock-off of Warhammer 40k), Warcraft, Age of Empires and a multitude of RTS clones. The game allows a player to pick from four different races for multiplayer. These races are the bread and butter of the Warhammer 40k mythos. There's the Space Marines of the Imperium who are the humans (genetically-enhanced superhumans) in the game with the Eldar taking the role of the elves if this games was based in a high-fantasy setting. The other two races might be considered the villain races of the game in the form of the brutal and savage Orks (Orcs in space as I like to call them) and the Chaos Space Marines (the darker and evil version of the Space Marines).

Each of the four race follows a tech tree to determine which units become available right from the get-go and what could be requisitioned later on as certain goals are met either through building certain structures and/or taking command of relic items. This is where Dawn of War takes a different path in terms of gameplay mechanics. Instead of farming for energy, gas, crystals or any sort of energy patches around the map, the player can concentrate of just taking control of strategic points which allows for more areas to be used to build structures such as power plants and armories to requisition troops and vehicles. The game breaks away from past RTS by not bogging down the player with building farms an non-combat units to farm resources.

This new way of procuring units and energy to build more structures allows for players to get into the thick of the fight right from the beginning. In fact, creating a fighting squad is the first thing players need to learn to do right from the start in order to capture strategic points to expand a player's space to build power plants and structures on. These units are accurately designed and portrayed both in look and how they move and fight. From the Space Marines and their methodical way of fighting, to the graceful Eldar who speed gives them an advantage over slower opponents and right down to the hardy and brutish Orks who can take more damage than other units. All four races are pretty well-balanced in that no specific army is overpowered over the rest.

The single-player campaign really brings the universe of Warhammer 40k to life with it's brutal story of warfare, conspiracies and epic storytelling. Relic introduces a new Space Marine chapter to the Warhammer 40k canon with the enigmatic Blood Ravens Chapter whose role in Dawn of War brings them into conflict with not just the Orks but also with the Eldar and their twisted and debased battle-brothers, the Chaos Space Marines. I thoroughly enjoyed playing through the single-player campaign. It's quite a change to actually have an engaging campaign to play through which most RTS games don't have.

Overall, Relic did a fine job in translating the grim future of Warhammer 40K into an innovating real-time strategy game. Dawn of War takes what's very good of past RTS games while bringing in something new to the table which gives the game its own unique-style of gameplay. Finally, Games Workshop has a hit on their hands and something that brings the world they've created and cultivated for the past 25 years to new fans. Dawn of War is a game worthy of being called a Warhammer 40k game.

Super game that absorbs you

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are great, the game can get you hooked. So plan to play this game when you have nothing to do, cause once you start you won't be able to stop.

awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

nice game i bought it after company of heroes so it was nice to see it uses the same engine for easy play but a totally different experience.

Good Game, tweaking

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well, definately worth the money. The only problem I've had is the game has a known issue with ATI graphics cards (which took an hour or something to see what was wrong with it and about 5 min to fix). The text was only half there, like it was cut off from the top. The graphics were psycadelic and actually kinda cool, but annoying after the first couple minutes.

I was able to get the game to work fine after some tweaking, but it was a pain to figure out what was wrong with it. There's plenty of online guides on how to adjust your settings because apparently lots of people have had this problem as well. Overall good game, lots of fun. Definately worth the buy, but if you have an ATI card there might be some issues before you can fully enjoy the game.

Great RTS with LOTS of action.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: March 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

True to the Warhammer 40K universe, this game puts you right in the middle of a war on the planet Tartarus for the souls of every man and woman on the planet. The forces of Chaos have hatched a diabolical scheme to free a foul daemon from its prison and cast its evil shadow on the universe. The Space Marins, Blood Ravens unit, must battle to stop them. Fight a WAAGHG! army of Orks as well as the crafty Eldar as you unfold the great story of those oh to short RTS. A must play.

Half a game, not bad.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: March 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The single user game is way too short, I have not seen a large number of game editsd out there to create original fan content, the online community is a little anemic, and the online multiplayer tends to have 'issues'.

All that being said the game is fun and inventive, the interface is instantly familiar and intuative. the graphics are really nice. Gameplay is fun, but too short.

Extremely fun and immersive game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: February 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I played the demo of Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War perhaps 6 months before I was able to purchase the full version... After I got the full version, this game simply went to the top 5 of my RTS games.

This game is extremely fun to play as it has a very peculiar strategy element... Unlike some games in which you simply mass a bunch of units and send them hoping for the best, Dawn of War places a really tight limit around your units... Which, in my opinion, is a very celver thing as it forces you to think and diversify your units so to counter any threats you might find. Also, the fact that you have "hero" units with special abilities can really give you and edge... Moreover, certain units also have abilities that, when used correctly, can turn the tide of the battle... Moreover, if you are the type of person who likes to group up and rush out, this game is also for you, as it has 4 different races for which you must have different strategies, anywhere from conservative to "all out".

The graphics of this game are also very good, they are certainly not the best out there, but still, they do good justice... The easy controls of the camera allow you to have a bird's-eye view of the battlefield, or zoom in and watch the carnage up close, the camera even shakes when you are very close to a big weapon that is being fired. And I think that it is small details like that that spell out goodness.

The game is also enjoyable on the Campaign, Skirmish, and On-line modes, so you will not get bored so fast as there is always somehting new to try.

So overall, I highly recommend this game to anyone, Warhammer fan or not... And if you are still unsure, then download the demo and give it the free shot!

- Seb.

From popular gaming tables to the Deep spaces of your computer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 29
Date: February 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If this is just M for mature,THE GUYS THAT CREATED THIS WENT WRONG FOR THE ESRB.I mean that war and blood just turn to T for Teen,And who said that the tabletop games are for 12+,they could've just painted the models and put them in the boxes ready to fight and then that would lower the price from $30.00 to $15.00 and then this would be for 10 and older.The painting system for the armies are good, but by handheld it would be harder to do.Just 4 armies?Why not the entire squadron of the armies?And I'm hoping for a Warhammer 40,000 game for the Nintendo DS or the PSP or even the Nintendo Revolution or the Playstation 2 or Xbox 360

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