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Dawn of War = Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This viedo game series is awesome, however, it is always interesting and challanging. The On-line mode pits you against other players accross teh globe. What a crazy ride. This is the best strategy game i have ever played and will continue to play for a long time. Once the latest edition comes out with Necron and Tau, I will finally be able to play my favorite race, the necrons. Anyway, highlighy recommend this game if you liked the following:

Warcraft 1/2/3
Starcraft
Command And Conquer
Age of Empires
Lord of the rings: Battle for middle earth
Star wars galactic empire

A good exp pack to pick up ...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: October 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I loved Dawn of War so I'm a bit biased! ... but this was a good expansion pack to the original game. It adds a new race that is a challenge to play. While I have not played this online w/ my friends (they have, unfortunately, not picked it up yet?!?!?), I have played the campaign which is a little cheesy - but the playability of the new Imperial guard race is great! Good game!

Dawn of War 40,000 Winter Assault

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Best Strategy game ever. Graphics for this kind of game best w/a zoom and pan function. AI is real good.

warhammer 40,000 dawn fo war winter assault

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Bought this game for my grandson.
He loves the game plays on line with his friend and they battle.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

DoW is an awesome RTS series. It eliminates the "zerg" rush tatic that many RTS games utilize. You have a very small unit limit of 20pts. Each race is very unique. Really fun game. I would recommend getting the edition with the origial DoW and this expansion. Then also pick up DOW: Dark Crusade. Dark Crusade is a stand alone expansion but you use your CD-Keys for DOW and WA to unlock the original races including their campaigns.

Content.......for now.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The warhammer series is great. No hidden server fees. Charge as much as you want for the game. Just don't make it hurt forever.

There could have been a few more units.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: September 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I think they could have had a few more units to all the other races but then again the requirments would have gotten bigger. I have payed many skermishes and to be hounest the eldar got the best bosst because of the fire dragons. Though the sm chapilon is good he is only a commander and not to much for tanks defence hes for melle against infantry the relic made a big mistake giving the chaos korne beserkers they already had possesed i would think the deamon prince would be a good addition though it may be to powerful and last but not least the mega armoured nobs are my favorite out of the 4 new units just 1 can anniolate a intire possesed squad.I will talk abou the imperial guard now they do have some good infantry but bessides the orgerons its all about the tanks they have balisks which can fire earth shaker ammo at the cost of resoures they have the hellhound my persanal favorite it can burn troops with its flamer the chimara it can have infantry garrison and fire out of its sides so awsome!Oh yeah sry about the spelling not the best speller anyway they dont have a giant moster like say the orks but they do have the baneblade it said to be the most powerful unit in the game I think it is but anyway relic did great job on this game and i cant wait for the next expansion.Rock on relic!!

Winter Assault is a high quality, terrific expansion for Dawn of War!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 62 / 65
Date: September 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Introduction:
If you love computer games with ferocious combat, terrific graphics, exciting animation and some real tactical challenges, then you will love Warhammer 40,000: Winter Assault, the expansion to last year's Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (DoW). Fans of the original DoW will NOT be disappointed as Winter Assault brings improved graphics and an expanded universe to your computer, along with some enhancements to the game options as well. If you are a tabletop miniatures gamer, then having nicely painted Warhammer miniatures, a game table, and a friend to share it all with is still more fun, but Winter Assault (WA) is way too cool for of a computer game and you will really enjoy the way that THQ and Relic have made the Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 (40K) universe spring to life. And that is largely the joy of DoW and WA, the developers really have made 40K spring to life! It's so good, it's like an interactive 40K movie and you get to direct much of the action. To borrow a quote from Games Workshop (GW), you will feel as if you've been dropped right into the "grim darkness of the future" where "there is only war."

Problems:
After installing Winter Assault, I had a terrible time at first getting it to run because of a "spooge error" (no, I am not joking, though the programmer who created the error message must have been a little twisted). To make matters worse, DoW no longer ran after installing WA and I'd never had a problem with it before. Some hunting on the Internet revealed that many other DoW players have had this problem in the past and that it is related to display drivers. Although a quick check in Device Manager on my PC revealed that I had the latest driver for my video card (I had downloaded that recently in order to run Lego Star Wars), a visit to the NVIDIA website revealed the presence of a new driver for all computers running Windows XP with GeForce video cards. Obtaining this driver fixed the problem, but be forewarned, the graphics in WA have been enhanced above the level of the original DoW, so you may encounter some issues with it even if DoW ran without any problems on your machine prior to installing WA. In a nutshell, be sure that all your drivers are up to date, especially if you have any trouble running WA.

The New Army, Imperial Guard:
The new "race" for the game, the Imperial Guard, is as intricate and fascinating as the other races in the game. The units are modeled with exacting detail on the miniatures produced by GW, and the voice acting and animation are as high in quality as in DoW.

The Imperial Guard units themselves are each loaded with character drawn straight from the 40K universe. The infiltrating Vindicare Assassin is a very cool customer; he's the soft-spoken, laconic hero of a killing machine from every action movie made since Clint Eastwood made the type popular. The animation when the Hellhound flamethrower tank spews huge gouts of flame at the enemy is frightening and devastating! The attention to detail on each unit, based on the original GW miniatures, is amazing as always. For example, the Basilisk self-propelled artillery unit has an animated crew on the loading platform at the rear. Ogryns (large mutated ogre-like humans that excel at close combat), fast Sentinels (think AT-ST from Star Wars), Kasrkin (elite storm troopers), Psykers (wizards), Commissars (as in the old Soviet army) and more are all here in their dark, fanatical, dogmatic 40K-style glory.

A unique feature of the IG army is that their units can hide inside their buildings for protection, which can be an important tactic for these (mostly) ordinary humans as they face the terrifying monsters, aliens and mutants of the other races. Even better, they can "tunnel" between (i.e., move quickly between while NOT exposed) their buildings.

Game Play:
As with the original DoW, I've been playing my early WA Skirmishes against the CPU on Easy difficulty and backing off the enemy so that I have lots of time to examine all the units, sound effects and wonderful animations. The developers have again created a rich playing experience with a huge variety of units, animations, voiceovers and sound effects. It will take quite a lot of zooming the camera on each unit and structure and paying attention to all the different voices and sounds before you'll feel you've seen and heard them all. WA has lots of replay value and should stay fresh and exciting for quite a while. New battle maps and campaigns refresh the DoW experience even more (see below).

New Game Options and Features:
Winter Assault has two new game setup options, persistent bodies and persistent scarring, which allow the casualties and terrain scarring that take place during game play to persist onscreen rather than automatically fade away within moments of the time they occur.

More importantly, there are many new maps on which to fight your battles and two new single-player campaigns: an Order campaign and a Disorder campaign. Single players and those who enjoy multiplayer games should both be pleased with the amount of new material.

Each existing DoW race also has a new unit added to the troops available to their roster. Chaos Space Marines get Khorne Berserkers (close combat maniacs in powered armor), Space Marines get Chaplains (a powerful commander unit with the power to inspire his troops), Eldar get Fire Dragons (a warrior "aspect" that carries powerful short range fusion guns) and the Orks get Mega-armored Nobz (extremely powerful and heavily armored elite troops).

Conclusion:
If you love RTS (real time strategy) games, Warhammer 40,000, or Dawn of War, you will really enjoy Winter Assault. It does not disappoint!

Excellent expansion for a great game (4.5 stars)

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 16 / 19
Date: October 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Winter Assault is one of those expansions that adds a lot of new content to a game. Since I have already posted a review of Dawn of War at this site, I won't go into too much detail here about this game. However, overall, this is a wonderful addition to one of my favorite games ever.

The biggest change is the addition of a new race, the Imperial Guard. The Guard stresses entrenched defense as a tactic, backed up by strong vehicles and artillery. While not quite as flashy or alien as some of the other races, the Guard is a nice addition to the game. Also, the other four races each get a new unit, as well as modified tech trees which are well thought out.

The single-player campaigns in Winter Assault are very well done. They allow you to play each of the races (except the Space Marines), and each mission has multiple parts and objectives. There is also a surprise appearance of another alien race in the last mission, which adds a nice twist to the story. Additionally, there are about 20 new multiplayer maps that come with Winter Assault. The AI has been improved so that it's more aggressive, techs faster, and uses a diverse array of units. There are some minor pathfinding issues for some units, but the game is just a blast to play.

This game still looks great, and Winter Assault adds some new environments and weather effects. It's still a shame that the developer did not release modding tools with this version of the game, although I suspect that they will update the tools that can be downloaded from their website (www.dawnofwargame.com). The sound effects are also quite good, and most of the new voices are done well, along with the new music.

If you have any interest whatsoever in strategy games, then I highly recommend both the original game and this expansion. This is one of the best real-time strategy games I've played and is easily in the same league as Rise of Nations, Warcraft 3, and the Age of Empires series.

Never bring a snowball to a blaster fight.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: February 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

You may have heard of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, which blasted away the competition back in 2004 to take Game of the Year honors in Computer Gaming World. Relic has been making RTS games long enough to know not to fix what ain't broke -- which is why Winter Assault improves by degrees rather than reinventing the proverbial wheel.

One glaring flaw in Dawn of War (depending on your play style) was the unforgiving "the best defense is a good offense" multiplayer, in which victory inevitably went to whoever could produce the largest number of cheap units the fastest. Winter Assault levels the playing field with the addition of a new faction: the defensively-minded Imperial Guard. They may be less exciting to look at than the four other races, but the role they play in balancing the game makes up for it. With the Guard on the roster, heedlessly rushing into combat at earliest opportunity is now a risky proposition at best.

While their cousin Space Marines are trained killing machines who live only for combat, the average Guardsmen probably has a wife and kid they write home to -- which means they won't part with their lives unless they absolutely have to. Couple this with the fact that they're no match one-on-one with any of the other races (even the puny Eldar), and you can see why they prefer to shoot from behind the relatively safe confines of a bunker or ATV.

Not surprisingly, this means your squads can be relied on to turn tail and run at the first sign of trouble. If you absolutely can't allow your troops to head for the hills, the Commissar unit has the ability to execute a friendly soldier in order to scare the rest into staying put. Or you could go up the tech tree and produce some Ogryn, who are too stupid to do anything but what you order them to.

Single player boasts some marginal improvements, but still remains less satisfying than the thrill of combating a human foe. To summarize the plot: a Titan (a weapon of unspeakable power crafted by the Imperium) has crash landed on resident ice planet Lorn V, so the race is on between the various Warhammer 40,000 factions to take control of it before anyone else can.

With a mediocre story poorly told through weak voice acting, chances are you're not going to care about much more than grinding your AI opponent into the dust. There are ten missions total, divided up evenly into an Order (Imperial Guard, Eldar) and a Chaos (Orks, Chaos) campaign. On the fifth and final mission you're forced to choose a faction, so I suppose the grand total can be boosted up to twelve if you're motivated enough to play through the last mission again.

Also, each race has received a new unit to to make up for their inherent weaknesses: Chaplains can be attached to a squad of Space Marines for a boost in ranged attack power, Chaos Space Marines can augment their close combat abilities by upgrading into Khorne Berserkers, Eldar Fire Dragons quickly take down vehicles and buildings, and Ork Mega Armored Nobz can soak up a great deal of punishment so the rest of the horde doesn't have to.

While Winter Assault doesn't mess too much with formula or add a flashy new alien race, it makes an already great game even better. If you ask me, that's all you can really hope to get out of an expansion pack.

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