Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War GOTY Edition (Gamer's Choice) (PC Games)
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Relic Entertainment |
| Current Sales Rank: | #375 in Games | | All-Time Sales Rank: | #212 Overall |
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Product Description
Ten thousand years have passed since the treasonous acts of Chaos toppled the Golden Age of mankind. Fires burn brightly throughout the galaxies, illuminating carnage and slaughter as mankind defends itself from ancient enemies. Hardened forces collide with one goal in mind, the complete extermination of their opposition.
Control one of four unique races in head-to-head or cooperative multiplayer action, where faith, skill, and strategy are requisites in ruling the universes.
Features:
Epic Single Player Campaigns employing classic storytelling elements of treason and conspiracy
2-6 player Multiplayer via LAN or Internet providing endless re-playability
4 unique races, each with their own unique strategies
Improved Resource Model that focuses action on the frontline and minimizes the tedium of resource gathering
Cinematic quality melee and ranged combat that show battle in detail never before seen in a real-time strategy game
System Requirements
Windows® 98/2000/XP/ME • DirectX 9.0c (included on disc),
1.8 GHz Intel Pentium III or equivalent AMD Athlon XP processor • 256 MB RAM • 2.5 GB free hard drive space • 4x CD-ROM drive
• 32 MB DirectX 9.0b compatible AGP video card with Hardware Transform and Lighting
DirectX 9.0b compatible sound card, 16-bit• Keyboard • Mouse.
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Do yourself a favour and get it!
 Reviewed by Anonymous from NZ on October 2nd, 2004
Short single player campaign. but wait till you try multiplayer.....all class.
Fun & solid game, lacks depth.
 Reviewed by Andrew from Auckland, NZ on October 2nd, 2004
Visceral visual experience, with a satisfactory, though not particularly challenging or imaginative singleplayer experience.
Multiplayer will depend on your focus - if you like the "grind" aspect of the game (if you and your opponent are competent then you can expect to quickly hold the map 50/50 and have to then wear each other down slowly) you will find it fun. One benefit of this is that there will be plenty of time to enjoy the visuals.
The balance between the races needs a little bit of work, but that may come in time with patches. The GameSpy system of online matchmaking isn't my favourite, but at least it has some form of automatic game-matching.
My gaming has been relatively bug-free, except for one crash on the last mission of the game (only happened once and did not reoccur).
Overall a good game, but it depends on what you are looking for. If there was a 3.5 stars option I would have gone for that.
Wow
Reviewed by Sam from Christchurch, damn proud of it 2 on October 2nd, 2004
It's The best PC game ever, Imagine getting the main guy off Halo and putting him in a cloner and telling the clones to kill each other whilst making as many big explosions as possible. Great game I would reccomend it to all PC users.
Makes Generals look like Pacman
Reviewed by Mark from Tauranga, New Zealand on October 1st, 2004
Want to see a massive robotic machine pickup an Orc and squeeze till its head pops off? Like guns? Did you like Warcraft 3 but would have liked to see more nasty explosions and hordes of different units? Then this is the game for you.
Dawn of War pits the 4 tradional 40K races against each other. The Space Marines, humanities salvation. The Eldar, some mystical magical elf/aliens. The Chaos Marines, Space Marines corrupted and hateful. And the Orcs, just plain funny and primitive but with safety in numbers.
The gameplay is a lot like Warcraft 3 but with a couple of unique features. The first and probably the best is squad reinforcements. Instead of individual units sometimes you can make squads. If one of your squad members dies then you can hit the reinforcements button and after a small amount of time a new squad member appears. Also you can upgrade your squads individually to suit the situation. If your enemy for example has loads of vehicles you can upgrade your marine squad with rocket launchers. And you can see them gain a rocket launcher! Each unit is individual so you can see when someone has a different gun to another.
Graphically though is where this is excelling. The ingame animation is amazing. I'm not going to describe it. But when Your commander kicks an orc in the head, spins round and stabs another with his chainsword it's just plain brilliant.
Amazing game. Buy it. Now. No, I said NOW!
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Crap compared to WC3
 Reviewed by Anonymous on September 29th, 2004
In DoW, you have control points. This, coupled with a lack of balance, is the defining reason for the crappiness of this product. COntrol points are too easy to get, and there is no reall punishmnet for losing 1000 troops. Nice GFX though.
Outstanding
Reviewed by Anonymous from Auckland NZ on September 27th, 2004
the battles are epic, and live up to the TT equivalent. the animations are excellent and the detail is rich and expansive.
PURE RELIC !
Reviewed by Anonymous on September 27th, 2004
Having been involved in the beta and dowloading the demo there can be only three words for it "buy this now!"
relic have out done themselves again! multiplayer mahem at its best !
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