This game is actually very good, with or without the Warhammer element the RTS core is sound. Dawn of war has rather innovative tactical gameplay for an RTS, which is based around capturing and holding strategic points which generate resource points based on several factors like outposts built on them and upgrades. This works pretty well, forcing you to expand and play a somewhat aggressive game; you can't just sit back in your base and theres constant action rather than the stale attrition you sometimes get in other RTS games. The graphics are very good in full 3D with plenty of very visceral battle animations, its superb to watch a Dreadnought wade into a unit, smash several enemy out of the way, pick someone up and fling them off the screen.. The sound effects are quite good though there is the obligatory bad voice acting in the campaign though it doens't really detract from the overall quality. The campaign itself is quite good but very short, about 10 missions which I completed in 1 day. However the multiplayer/skirmish elements of the game are very good and make up the bulk of the gameplay hours. The difficulty of the AI in skirmish and multiplayer is very well gradiated ranging from complete push over to very hard and importantly the hard difficulty setting is just right, a good challange without being off putting. The warhammer element works well, the four races, Eldar, Marine, Chaos, and Ork are authentic with all the main units and vehicles included. Though the rules as far as I can tell have just been thrown out the window in favour of a more fluid system, which is probably a good thing. All in all a great RTS and from me thats saying something as i'm not a big RTS fan.
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