Promised so much, delivered so little.

User Rating: 6.2 | Warhammer: Mark of Chaos PC
After Dawn of War, I thought Games Workshop had finally managed to get over their issues with computerised versions of their tabletop games.

Oh what a fool was I.

This game is worse than Dark Omen and Shadow of the Horned Rat - both were visually unimpressive but captured the essence of the wars set in the warhammer universe.

MoC is the opposite - it looks fantastic, but has poor and uninspiring gameplay. Losses are easy to replace, special effects seem a bit naff and damningly, the game is repetitive. Each mission seems to be charge forward and win, with very little use for flanking or finer tactics. It tries to mix elements of the total war series with Warcraft 3's hero system and fails abysmally at both.

When I played as Chaos and the campaign forces you to suddenly start using a Skaven army, I quit. To arbitrarily switch races was particularly annoying in a campaign which appears to have a character-driven narrative.

It could have been so much more...