A good, though simple, RTS game.
Dark Crusade is a standalone expansion to the RTS Dawn of War from 2004.
It adds two new races to the roster:
The Necrons: A race of undead souls locked inside metal bodies and
The Tau Empire: An extremely advanced army of robots that fights and conquers for the Greater Good.
While the Tau fit in very well with the other 5 races, the Necrons are a tad overpowered. However, they are still very much beatable.
The campaign goes in a new direction with the first non-linear campaign in the series. You choose one of the seven armies (Space Marine, Ork, Eldar, Chaos, Imperial Guard, Necrons, Tau) and use them to conquer the planet Kronus.
Along the way, you get honor guard units, wargear that empowers your hero and special abilities such as Fury that allows you to attack twice in a turn, and Spaceport which allows you to attack any non-fortress territory on the map.
The objective is to destroy all enemy citadels, which will have different methods of victory like planting an explosive device or assassinating a leader.
Other than these and special ability maps, all battles are Destroy HQ- the first player to lose all his HQ's loses.
While I prefer the Winter Assault linear campaign, this one is also good fun, if a little frustrating.
The online is the same as before, that is to say very good. There are many more maps, of course, but no real change to the system.
You can also play a skirmish against the computer which is surprisingly enjoyable.
Overall, Dark Crusade is a good expansion to one of the best future-RTS games.