Awesome, Just A Few Balancing Errors
Other than this i feel it is a great game and is worth the praise it has gotten, I think maybe from the 40K universe Relic could've picked a more popular race but aside from that the new race adds a better view of the game.
The story line is far from boring as you dig deeper into what the chaos armies are trying to do, and a secret race that lies in the shadows.
Overall a great game with some fast paced audio to I found it batle enspiring and the Ork voices have to be the closest i've seen to the real thing, I also love the voice of the chaos slave "Yes Master!" so yes, great voice and sound work with realistic explosions and some good cutscenes even finishing moves from the troops like gory attacks with the chainsaw etc. Make this game a must buy!
Gameplay
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It has hours of gameplay tucked under its belt, sometimes the unbalanced stuff can be annoying but if your into strategy the gameplay is definently worth the buy. The campaigns are great with a choice between good and evil and quite a compelling story line with a definite religious feel for some reason, it's a highly religious game in terms of the emperor and the dark chaos God's and things so it's like your caught in a crusade, throughout the campaign the Imperials are used as cannon fodder to give marines time to build up despite how unfair this is its time well needed, the computer are relentless and will stop at nothing to kill you, you wil have to build up quick!
Graphics
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Great graphics I'd say a few glitches occasionly with things walking through stuff and an error with some home users about a missing SPOOGE driver but these are VERY hard to come by unless you have a non ATI or Nvidia GPU most developers out there don't really code support for the unpopular cards, but when your in the game the opening movie is highly entertaining, an Ork Vs. Marine battle nice gory effects, when in the RTS itself the layout is smooth, neat and easy to navigate round, love the effect when you build and it crashes down all broken looks fantastic, and as you build the building it opens out slowly, small things that make it that little bit better ;)
and before i forget the finishing move when your troop enters hand to hand is fantastic great idea Relic ;)
Sound
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The voiceovers for Chaos are great even if they do sound slightly like Smeogol (its a hard spelling leave me alone) and it never gets boring, sound is very dark themed classical and the weapons fire sounds perfect but as an addon i suppose nothing is different from the original 40K in terms of sound, just the new voiceovers to Imperial Guard and stuff.
Value
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A welcomed add on worth the buy especially i you've finished 40K Dawn of War and are getting bored of it, the new race helps :)
Reviewers Tilt
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Got hours out of this definently happy to tilt the score into its direction :P