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Finally a different kind a strategy!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: September 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is an excellent new game with lot of action. It breaks away from traditionnal games and is perfect for warhammer fans. It realistic and the new game features makes this game very entertaining.

Just About Perfect

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: October 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Jut got the game but cus thers a bug that stutters my sound (hopefully fixing with next patch) i cant enjoy to the full but one thats gone and a few other things fixed with next patch it will be a perfect game.. so much stratagy. graphics are great, sound is great, Prepare for the Dawn of War (hmm that was corny)

Visceral?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: January 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you like ridiculously proportioned cartoon characters getting blown around by explosions, this is your game. When I think of visceral, I think of the original Myth from about 6 years ago. That had body parts getting torn off and flipping through the air while blood sprayed from the severed limbs. Now that was visceral and entertaining. This is nerfed violence with hackneyed character actions, voices and dialogue. The actors are hacks, but they're professional hacks so they follow the formula in a very professional way. Unfortunately, I'm not particularly attracted to the WWF style of acting.

The game also reminds me too much of the very childish Warcraft in the way characters are drawn and the way people go flying. Nice effect, but it's been done. At least this game isn't all blue.

The gameplay if fun, but there's a lot of mouse clicking and scrolling around to be done. Pretty cool the way you can reinforce your teams right on the field. It doesn't make much sense, but it beats having to tell some clown to go from way back in the beginning to wherever your team is now. I will admit I enjoyed the demo and played it several times. The battles are a blast and like I said, it's easier to stay near the front and in the action.

If you want more realism and historical accuracy, you might want to get Rome Total War. You can set live pigs on fire and send their squealing, flaming selves into the war elephants and troops in the hopes of causing panic and carnage. They also let you use dogs to tear the arms off opponents. It just doesn't get more "historical" than that.

Multiplayer Review

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: December 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'll keep this short and sweet because I'm not a big writer. The game has lots of minor and a few major bugs and imbalances that make the game not suitable for "pro" level play. If you want to be one of the top players of this game you will find yourself very frustrated. The developers of the game have been very slow to make any improvements or fixes and have actually *lied* (about two things) saying they had made a fix when they didn't. Instead they just turned features off, thinking people wouldn't notice. You will not see a lot of negative comment on the official forums because such comments are deleted or the threads are closed. The on-line "system" for the game is a complete joke, if Armies of Exigo (AoX) is a 10, this is a 5-6. Both are based on GameSpy, if I were to compare it to BattleNet, which is a bit unfair, it would be a 3 or 4.

Anyway the game has lots of potential, but it is far from realizing it. I'm not sure the developers intend to take the game much further through patches either.

Buy this game and you'll get your $$$s worth!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Do you like RTS (real time strategy) games? Relic has taken the super-successful format of games like Heros of Might and Magic or Starcraft and made THE PERFECT GAME. There is not a single flaw in this game. From the beginning you are treated to the best CGI movie I've ever, EVER, seen. Then it only gets better. This game is very easy to learn if you have never played an RTS before. IF you have played Starcraft, Warcraft, Heros of Might and Magic, or the like, then you'll be impressed how well this game is made. The single player game familiarizes you with your troops, buildings, and strategies, and features a lot of great CGI. Then when you have beaten up the computer enough you can try you wits agains other addicted souls online with the game's free online gaming. I can go on and on about how this is the most perfectly made game I have ever bought. I'll end it with a compliment on how you can play this game with an old cruddy computer and have fun or, if you are fortunate enough to have a great video card and computer, be amazed by the gorgeous graphics and eerie animations.
This game is WAR and worth every penny. Buy it, love it, and get ready for the expansion set with a new race due out later this year! I CAN'T WAIT!!!

Don't buy if you have Service Pack 2 for Windows XP!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 28
Date: October 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have been unable to install this game. The installation quits near the end of install (after I've put the 3rd disc in); it quits with no error message and all the files already installed are automatically permanently deleted (i.e. not sent to the recycle bin). Have tried installing multiple times. It seems that there is a bug in the interaction between Install Shield and Windows Installer 3.0 (which installs with SP2 for Windows XP). After several email exchanges with THQ tech support, they advised me to use Task Manager to end the installer program just as it's finishing the installation, but before it crashes out. That had no effect, so I was then told to seek a refund. Simply not good enough. I was really looking forward to this game. So, if you have Windows XP and Service Pack 2, either roll your system back to pre-SP2 or don't buy this game. Very sad

AWSOME GAME MUST BUY

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 19
Date: September 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS THE BEST RTS i HAVE EVER PLAYED. THE ONLY RTS THAT CAN COMPARE WITH IT IS WARCRAFT 3. i HAVE ONLY PLAYED THE DEMO BUT i CAN TELL ITS GONA BLOW U AWAY

$50 for this?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 15
Date: November 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I borrowed this game from a friend that found out he didn't have enough RAM to run the game. I was going to buy this game because of all the hype I had heard about it... good thing I borrowed it.
To start the game is too short to be worth my $50. And it's not challenging at all. The 12 missions that you get just don't justify the price tag. I can get WarCraft 3 (both RoC and FT) for about the same price and I have, roughly, 8 times the game as DoW. The only differences would be that WC3 would have a degree of challenge. But wait... WC3 doesn't have that nice camera that can go down to ground level so you can be in the midst of the action... and you can't forget the glitches and bugs that plague this game... isn't that worth the $50 right there? Nah.
Bottom line. If you like RTS games, your money is better off somewhere else... actually, ANYWHERE else.

great game bad story

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: April 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I was so please to see a RTS game come out in the WH40K world and I played it straight through. The animations and gameplay are great but there should be more missions. Also, the cutscenes were very long and dull. The actors speaking the voices were not right in my opinion. Play the game, but skip the cutscenes!!

Very Good.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First of all, I'm a big RTS fan. It started with Warcraft II, then on to StarCraft, then Warcraft III, then EMPIRES DAWN OF THE MODERN WORLD. I found all very enjoyable. As for DoW...I still have yet to purchase the full game, but the demo alone has given me somethin I've been wanting; an AI thats actually pain in the rear in NORMAL difficulty. I like a challenge...though I'll probably find myself playing the Orks to sate my Starcraft ZERG style strategies of overwhelming numbers sent to the meat grinder...

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