Single player RPG aspects are addicting. In retrospect: little strategy, mediocre story, and little replayability.
User Rating: 8.5 | Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II PC
It's fun while it lasts. The single player's RPG elements are addicting as you collect wargear and level up your squads. The story is shallow at best, but it's enough to make you want to trudge on to the end. There's little actual strategy in-game. You point, click, and slaughter. Most of your strategy comes in the form of outfitting your squads. It lacks the complex micromanagement of other RTS's and the complexity of pure bred RPG's, but it works. Future expansions will probably add other races than the space marines to the single player campaign, but I don't see why they couldn't just add them to the initial release, although play time is decent as I played the most of four days. With a substantial modding community in the future, I'd probably play once more. Until then, there's little reason to.
(Multiplayer not reviewed.)
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