This is a very fun game, great story telling, wonderful characterization, BUT....

User Rating: 7.5 | Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II PC
This was so nearly a great game. The story telling is completely true to the Warhammer universe and the individual characters are well crafted, both in voice acting and the different personalities linked by a common sense of duty. The missions and consequences of failure are well done, but the maps are a bit repetitive. The gaining of gear, experience levelling and mission ratings are superb and the protagonists are well detailed and individual, Gods I hated those eldar Banshees. The story is excellent and the campaign has been well thought out for the most part.

The bad bits - there are more snags than I would have expected. Shipping without the bonus codes is a minor glitch, as is the fact I had to delete Soulstorm to stop random crashing, and the 90% of the times when you have to sit through the introductory video when loading (which seems to have sound issues),but my main complaint is STEAM! If you aren't devoted to online gaming (and I know some people are, I'm just not one) then Steam is invasive and unhelpful. The offline mode won't work unless you have an active internet connnection, the Steam interface is persistent, annoying and utterly useless if you aren't playing on line. Having this forced on my really ticked me off. I very much felt this has been designed to force you into online play whether you want to or not.

I really enjoyed the campaign, but could not help feeling it was tacked onto what was intended to be a multiplayer experience. Hopefully this will be followed by some of the excellent expansions that typified DoW, but don't force Steam on me every single time I want to play a quick game. In summary, so nearly great, but spoilt by invasive Steam.