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fully engaging

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: August 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you buy this for the single player game, you will be horrably dissapointed, just don't.

If you want to play against real people online, this it a great game.

team play, is good

1v1 is fantastic

save replays of your wins and losses use those to see what your opponent did right and wrong and use him to improve.

visit http://forums[dot]relicnews[dot]com/ for strats and tips (all free,no worries mate)

An OK game, but nothing creative

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: October 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game under the mistaken impression that there would be campaigns that could be play either as Eldar, Orks, Chaos, or Space Marines, however, you only get to play the Space Marines, on very limited battle maps. There is no freedom of movement, and although the graphics are amazing, the play is too frantic to zoom in and watch or pay attention. If you want to win, you gotta micro manage and utilize all of your resources as the become available.

There is no strategy as in Total War or excitement of (take your pick of first person shooter).

Also the characters, well, I could give a hoot about them. The story pretty much blows. I mean, why would you want your character to win? He acknowledges that he exterminated everyone on his homeworld, et cetera. Also, one thing about game play, when you main character dies in combat, he just magically regenerates behind your lines. How is that explained?

Although the AI in Total War is weak, on the battle field you have to apply tactics (pin with phalanx, flank with calvary, et cetera.) here it is just 1) take energy out put, 2) build and up grade nrg, while protecting what you have and gradually expand the no. of nrg sites under your control, 3) then sit back max out all of your troop numbers, 4) Blitzkrieg and 5) you win.

Engrossing, but short.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: April 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my husband for Christmas. While it kept him busy for a short while... he had finished the game in under a week. For the amount of money I spent on it, I expect more than a week's worth of play. I was disappointed in that area only. However, he quite enjoyed playing the game.

NICE GAME

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Finaly a good looking game that isn't so limited like WC3! Bring back the numbers and craziness of CnC.

Get it for sure!

Win XP, SP2 also works fine with DAW on my PC

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: October 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This review is also for the reviewer of the WinXP SP2, well it works fine on my PC, not a single bug, the game is flawless, and as for game play and graphic, sound etc.., Perfect is the word on the whole line.

Nearly Perfect Warhammer RTS

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Warhammer 40k is a very good game! Im saying that because it wasnt horrible and it wasnt perfect. The reason im giving this game a 4 out of 5 is because the campaign is too short. Other than that this game is superb! There is A LOT OF DETAIL. The gameplay is extremely addictive! The voiceovers DONT SUCK
(unlike the voiceovers in kohan).The campaign is probably short so you can play it again just to notice all the detail. This is overall an awesome game but not perfect. Pick it up And youll be a RTS fan if youve never played RTS games before.

"Those who oppose the Eldar shall fear my wrath!"

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: June 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is good. No, REAL good. Although I haven't played campaign very much, I've played many Skirmishes, and let me tell you that this is bloody and extremely explosive. I mean, when you destroy your opponents base or strategic point, flames actually fly into your army's faces! And also, while playing a Skirmish as the Eldar, a very powerful soldier (he's a god by the way) stabbed an Ork with his sword, raised the sword, and the Ork slid to the bottom of the blade. The god then shook the sword and blood splattered everywhere and the Ork flew offscreen. The only thing left on the god's blade was the Ork's blood.

A'ight. Blood, explosions, and violence aren't the only things that make a strategy game good, but also control over your army. That's simple, just left-click your army then right-click on their destinstion. But (back to the violence) an enemy army could stand in the way. They fight then continue their journey if they survive. Builder units play a big part in the war. Without them, you couldn't build an army since they build the machines that make the army. The builders also build other machines, like listening posts that protect strategic points, turrets that protect your base, and even machines that recruit vehicles instead of soldiers(tanks, robots, etc.)

Army painter, army painter, army painter. This let's you design your soldiers with different colors and symbols. Moving on.

Multiplayer. I've never played this, not that I don't want to. I do, but I have to disable my virus protection and my adware. That's the only reason it's not perfect. THQ's screwed.

I recommend this game to anyone with a PC or laptop. Who knows, maybe President Bush is using this to plan an attack in the Iraq War. Heh, bet not. Uhh, just get it? Later! REKANIZE!

Great game and a needed addon

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you like Dawn of War you have to get this add-on, especially considering the price of this one. Get it... for additional hours of fun and gameplay.

A RTS Revolutuion

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Dawn of War is unique in many ways compared to the normal Age of Empire's 2 style of game. In fact, the differences are numerous. This is truelly a game out of the ordinary-- and for the better.

Dawn of War has an innovative resource gathering system. You capture "strategic points" on the map (like Star Wars Battlefront 2) and they generate "requisition points". These points are supposed to represent your personal attack's value to the overall campaign of the planet. You also gather power via power generators, which are built anywhere. Since you gather more requisition resource by getting more strategic points (and for that matter critical locations and relics) players are forced into a more aggressive style of playing. This constantly forces players to have minor skirmishes. However, if you are too aggressive, you can get crushed as your forces are spread too thin...

Race wise, it has 4 completely different races, which are genuinely interesting and unique. They all have different troops and tech trees; in fact, you almost need to re-learn all your strategies as you learn to cope with these forces. (The Orks are especially different, with a whole extra resource and the ruleset of unlocking higher level troops by having more troops already on the field)

On balance, the game's fantastic. I've played all the races, and I've been able to win with all of them on skirmish mode. (Though I have a difficulty with the Orks, that's because I just suck with races that focus on close-combat *I HATE ZERG*)

The sounds are some of the best ever. They are terrifying and magnificent at the same time. I love how the Space Marines (who in the Warhammer 40K universe follow the God Emperor to death) fight with a sort of fervor not found in the other races. Chaos is terrifying with their blood curdling cries, and the Orks are funny with their crude tech and language.
The sounds of war in general (explosions, gun effects, etc) are cool as well. When I zoom in on a large fight, it feels as if I'm taking part in it as well, with the sounds of chain swords slashing, bolters shooting and rockets zooming.

The Graphics are the best EVER. It is filled with beautiful particle effects, the models are unparallel for and RTS and the animations are a work of art. The animations in particular are amazing. For instance, in close combat, troopers dodge and weave, clash swords and axes, and have terrific death animations. Ranged combat is improved as well, though not to the same degree. For example, in Star Wars Empire at War, ranged troops have the same animation: shoot/aim, recoil, shoot/aim, recoil, etc. In Dawn of War, troops are always switching their aim between enemy grunts, reloading, taking cover, throwing grenades, etc. These animations really help make the feel of a total-scale war.

If there is 1 problem with the game engine, it's the fact that you can shoot enemies through buildings.....

It should be noted that with the plethora of MODS out there, you can really get a bang for your buck. There's pretty much a MOD for each of the W40K races out there (like the Steal Legion, Tyranids, Daemon Hunters, and Tau)

And to top it all off, this games looks great without eating up system requirements. I run it on mid-high settings with an old PC( with maybe 3 computer players) with: A Pentium 4 2.4 ghz, 512 RAM, and a nVidia Geforce FX 5200. So almost any computer can run this game well, though for a true visual experiance, I would suggest something around the nVidia 6 or 7 series...

I easily recommend this to anybody who loves RTS, W40K, and everything in-between....

Fun game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I liked this game. Why? It had a good tutorial and was easy to learn. The story was better than average. The voice acting was superior to what I see in most games. The music was very good at getting my adrenaline going. The graphics were excellent without slowing down the game. The single player campaign could have been a little longer but I found it satisfying. True it has the usual very simplistic RTS tactics of build as fast as you can and blitz but I see that in all RTS games. The one thing I did not like was when I installed the game it secretly told my firewall to allow it to connect to the internet without asking me. That is very underhanded and deducts one star from this game.

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