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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade (PC Games)
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Deep under the central desert of Kronus, a vast honeycomb of skull-lined tunnels and funereal chambers house the awakening mass of the Necron plague. Eons ago, these were the boulevards and squares of a great necropolis built to house the bones of the races who had fallen to the Necron purge, and ultimately for the Necron themselves to retire to. Over the millions of years, sand and rock had covered it all until ill-fated excavations awoke the deathless again.
Play any of seven races, striving for control over Kronus. Take other races’ strongholds by winning challenging battles on various maps individually associated with the respective Strongholds.
Features:
- New playable races, each with individual features
- Brand new Single Player Campaign experience, playable by all seven races
- Non-linear game-play: conquer an entire planet in the way you choose
- Watch a unique, non-linear story unfold from your race's perspective
- Customise and manage a persistent army as you sweep across the planet
- Customise the appearance and abilities of your commander unit as he grows in power and influence
- Discover the dark secrets of a planet shrouded in mystery
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System Requirements
Minimum spec:
- Windows® 2000/XP
- DirectX 9.0c (included on disc)
- 2.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent AMD Athlon XP processor
- 512 MB RAM
- 980 Mb free hard drive space
- 32 MB DirectX 9.0b compatible AGP video card with Hardware Transform and Lighting
- DirectX 9.0b compatible sound card, 16-bit
- Keyboard & Mouse
Recommended:
- 2.4 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent,
- 512 MB System RAM (required for 8-player multiplayer games).
- nVidia GeForce 3 or equivalent with 64 MB of Video RAM.
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I've yet to see a better RTS.
 Reviewed by Carrick from northland, NZ on November 10th, 2007
5 stars but you need the original DOW to get every bonus.
theres bit more 2 it thn u think
 Reviewed by Andrew from Auckland, NZ on November 3rd, 2006
Early game it does appear like skirmish - but as the sides build up forces you will start with bigger armies from the get go.
There are about 6-7 "unique" territories which have a simple special win trigger e.g. collect all the servitors scattered around the map.
Finally each enemy stronghold plays out like a proper mission with multiple objectives etc.
It's reasonably enjoyable, although replayability value isn't huge, because the campaign will be very similar regardless of which race you place.
The added random elements flowing from which territories you target first and so on change things up but not really enough to make a difference.
All in all its not too bad, but only if you like the universe and visuals to begin with - gameplay wise its not really interesting enough to challenge.
Seriously... is that it?
 Reviewed by Phil from Auckland. on November 1st, 2006
Based on first impressions it seems it's just a series of skirmish maps linked into a loose, non linear "campaign". If you just want to play skirmish battles one after the other that's fine, because that seems to be the game, basically. No story or anything. That's it. And the maps are very bland. The only two battles that I could be bothered with were like playing on a football field, with a few trees and craters here and there.
I didn't get very far into the turn based, campaign side of the game but it seems very simplistic. Nothing like Total War or anything where you construct buildings and things, and strategically move armies about. You just move your commander from one province to the next, and each move into hostile territory initiates a skirmish match, then you move on until you take them all.
There must be more to it than that, surely. There must be.
Good, but not as good as hoped.
Reviewed by Matt from Auckland NZ on October 31st, 2006
Dont get me wrong, I really like Dawn of war. But I must admit I am a bit dissapointed by certain aspects of the new Dark Crusade.
The single player campain in Dawn of War (apart from the abrupt end) was really good, and when I heard about the plans for an open campaign for Dark Crusade I thought it was a great idea. In reality though it doesnt work as well as one hopes if you are used to playing grand strategy across the empires of Total War and the like. It is most similar to the Lord of the Rings Battle for Middle earth campaign, not much in the way of strategic choice beyond which provence to attack next.
As for the gameplay itself, any competant player will very quickly build up a force of their races most powerful characters, and from then its a grind and search across the map to find your opponents base. What is with the new unit limits anyway? Part of the fun of the original was being able to send 4 Land raiders into your opponents base at the same time, now you can only have one, and two predators at a time? why?
Dark Crusade isnt a bad game at all, and there is much that is good, even if the voice acting is terrible, cutscenes and units alike. The new Space Marine commander is terrible compaired to the standard of voice acting in the Original.
Good for skirmish and multiplayer, but those looking for an indepth grand strategy challenge might not get the depth they hoped for.
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Loving it!
Reviewed by Anonymous from Hamilton, NZ on October 30th, 2006
Exactly what you've come to expect from the Dawn of War series, but cooler.
The Tau fight the way you would expect, all big guns (Damn BIG Guns) stealth units and jump packs.
The Necrons are just scary, slow advances of massed "unstoppable" infantry, and a sense of death incarnate almost dripping off the monitor.
The Risk style campaign draws you in as increasingly hectic battles of attack and defence test your skills and resolve. Early on you can pick and choose your attacks to target your opponets weak points, while later on both your opponents and yourself have aquired special units and abilities too effect the out come of the battle, and you massed armies face off in unavoidable confrontations.
Very Nice
Reviewed by Daniel from Auckland on October 30th, 2006
After picking this up I thought I was going to spend the majority of my time in skirmish or online, but I was strangely drawn into the non-linear single player I would reccomend buying this if you already have Dawn of War and Winter Assault as these two new races and style of gameplay allow many hours of re-playability.
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Release date: 25th September, 2008.
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