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Good, but not as before

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

The game was fun to play. However, it did not match against the previous Warhammers that I have played.

awesome game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My husband is currently stationed in Iraq and needed something to do to pass the free time till he gets to come home to his family again so I got this for him and he finds it has helped to pass the time away without loads of stress!!!! Thanks!!!!

Sweet game full of Warhammer goodness!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: November 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

So far the game has been a blast to play even though I've only gone through the Chaos side. The graphics are great and the storyline is nicely put together. I hope they make an expansion pack for this game.

Fun for 2 to 3 hours.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game was pretty fun for 2 or 3 hours and hten it really went down hill. There are no where near enough modes and the single player campaign is really uninspired and way too easy. Multiplayer was pretty lame as their is really no difference between each game, if you do A and B And C you always win.
I would not recommend this game

To War!! as soon as I finish loading...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I really wanted to like this game. It has the Warhammer universe to draw from for structure, storyline and gameplay but didn't seem to click. It didn't succesfully make the transition from a fun strategic tabletop game into a fun RTS game.

Firstly, the Loading times were unacceptably long which throws major breaks into your playtime. There is nothing worse than waiting almost a minute, in some cases, to make a transition from the battlefield to the campaign map. Speaking of the campaign map, it reminded me of the linear mapping of Final Fantasy Tactics. It really shouldn't have been implemented at all, but rather just take you from one battle to the next without the illusion of choice in the bigger scheme of things.

The graphics, visuals and voice-acting were great, but there is more to a game than watching trees sway and mist roll over hills. It seems the game developers focused too much on the ambience and less on gameplay.

The most appealing factor of warhammer is the strategic and tactical aspects of the game. Relic made a great transition with the Dawn of War franchise where it wasn't necessarily faithful to the tabletop game, but they combined both elements to deliver a fun game.

There is nothing really fun about this game. Your units bunch together on the map and you fight other units bunched together and they all slog it out. The maps are linear, cramped with no room for manuevering or grand-scale battles for the most part. In some instances during the campaign or on the multi-player maps you can face off and have a big battle, but it just turns into a slogging match of who has the most powerful units, not who can outplay the other. To top it off the game is very short.

They tried to take a page from the Total War franchise it seems to me. Having played the latest Medieval 2 and looking at it side by side there is much that could have been improved. However, it is not necessarily fair to compare and rather judge Mark of Chaos on its own merits and it doesn't stand very tall.

I'm generally lenient with bugs, that can be fixed with a patch. Even after a collosal 225ish MB patch the game still has technical problems. Could I slog through it to finish the campaigns? Yes.., but I got the infamous "Blue Screen of Death" and that has no excuse. If a company's software is so buggy it crashed my entire system and forces a reboot, file check, etc...then it has issues. Also, I have a 3.2 ghz, 1 gig ram, with a 6800 GT video card.

Overall, once I overcame the technical problems, I did enjoy some aspects like designing a hero, leveling up my units, but those good moments were few and far between the bad ones.

It has potential, but a 2.5 star game for me.

Pros:
- Beautiful Graphics
- Great tutorial
- Great voice-acting
- Heroes are fun to design.

Cons:
- Bugs...oh yes, bugs.
- Not very fun gameplay.
- Too much Real and Time, not enough Strategy.
- Blue Screen of Death included.
- The game is very short.

Wow, are you kidding me?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 14
Date: November 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am a big fan of RTS's and MMO's. I heard that there was an MMO of Warhammer being released in the future so I decided to pick this game up to get hyped up for it. This was a mistake & I want my money back. I don't think I will ever play an RTS ever again. The gameplay is absolutely horrific, with nothing fun and surprising coming up at you. It's limits brings you back to Age of Empires II. I think the creators focused way too much on putting in mini cintematics at every turn of the game. The only good thing is the character customization which is not worth buying the game for. Do yourselves a favor and don't get this game. Pick up AOEIII or anything else really. Just don't make the same mistake I made.

Not a finished product...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because I love warhammer and warhammer 40K. I thought THQ did a suburb job with the dawn of war series for warhammer 40K. I was excited to see warhammer universe get a (second) chance with Mark of chaos.

The game has good graphics and sound and is playable but I for example:
1) The multiplayer mode for me is unplayable because there are no multiplayer maps.
2) Game periodically crashed during campaign mode.
3)AI units get lost or cannot move from point A to B unless it is a stright line and clear terrain.
4)AI units forget to defend.

Issues 1-2 could be fixed with a patch but were not. I feel this game could be good if they would have released it has a finished product or just supported it.

A Solid Warhammer Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was a big fan of "Shadow of the Horned Rat" and "Dark Omen" and this game is very much in the same vein. It uses a combat engine similar to the Total War series of games, but as others have pointed out, it's a bit more simplistic. Like the previous games mentioned, the strategic element is quite simple as well, and is seperate from the combat portion. The ability to equip your heros with magical armor and weapons, as well as the ability to upgrade and outfit your troops is interresting and useful enough to justify the campaign mode.

The look of the game is very impressive, and the opening movie alone is worth owning the game for.

If you enjoyed the previous Warhammer Fantasy games mentioned above or enjoy Warhammer Fantasy in general, then you will probably enjoy this game too. If you are unfamilliar with Warhammer Fantasy, but loved the Total War series, be prepared that this game is not really the same sort of thing. It's a step up from the old Warcraft model of micromanaging individual units, and you don't have to mess with your economy and production while you fight, but it is not nearly as complex as the Total War series. It sits somewhere in-between...

Warhammer Mark Of Chaos

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game it self is pretty cool. Long load times and fairly boring combat make it suck. I bought this game because I really enjoyed Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War. I still have more fun with Dawn of War and Dark Crusade. Hopefully the expansion for Mark of Chaos will be a huge improvement. (Like Dark Crusade was for Dawn of War.)

Warhammer: Loadscreens of Chaos

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: December 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have twin 10,000 rpm WD drives set up in a stripe raid, over 2 gigs of RAM and a 4.0 ghz processor. My machine exceeds what the manufacturer suggests on the box is a "really hot setup". Yet load times on this game are unbearable. I've had maps that actually took less time to play than the load screen to get into the map. And the load time is just as long to get from the tactical map to the world map, which has no real moving parts or interactivity other than to click on the next town in line for the story to continue. Once you arrive at the next town, you are treated to another couple minutes of load time while the computer asks if you want to fight or retreat. If you choose to fight (like you have an actual choice), there's another couple minutes of load time. I got almost to the end of chapter two and just stopped playing due to the frustration. It might be acceptable if the game were incredibly detailed or complex, but this game loads slower yet looks and plays far worse than the latest Total War game.

Let's just say that the makers of this game got my $40 this time around, but it will be a long time before I buy anything with the Warhammer name or from these game companies again.

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