Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War GOTY Edition (Gamer's Choice) previews

Visceral visual experience, with a satisfactory, though not particularly challenging or imaginative singleplayer experience.

Multiplayer will depend on your focus – if you like the “grind” aspect of the game (if you and your opponent are competent then you can expect to quickly hold the map 50/50 and have to then wear each other down slowly) you will find it fun. One benefit of this is that there will be plenty of time to enjoy the visuals.

The balance between the races needs a little bit of work, but that may come in time with patches. The GameSpy system of online matchmaking isn't my favourite, but at least it has some form of automatic game-matching.

My gaming has been relatively bug-free, except for one crash on the last mission of the game (only happened once and did not reoccur).

Overall a good game, but it depends on what you are looking for. If there was a 3.5 stars option I would have gone for that.

Short single player campaign. but wait till you try multiplayer..­...all class.

It's The best PC game ever, Imagine getting the main guy off Halo and putting him in a cloner and telling the clones to kill each other whilst making as many big explosions as possible. Great game I would reccomend it to all PC users.

Want to see a massive robotic machine pickup an Orc and squeeze till its head pops off? Like guns? Did you like Warcraft 3 but would have liked to see more nasty explosions and hordes of different units? Then this is the game for you.

Dawn of War pits the 4 tradional 40K races against each other. The Space Marines, humanities salvation. The Eldar, some mystical magical elf/aliens. The Chaos Marines, Space Marines corrupted and hateful. And the Orcs, just plain funny and primitive but with safety in numbers.

The gameplay is a lot like Warcraft 3 but with a couple of unique features. The first and probably the best is squad reinforcements. Instead of individual units sometimes you can make squads. If one of your squad members dies then you can hit the reinforcements button and after a small amount of time a new squad member appears. Also you can upgrade your squads individually to suit the situation. If your enemy for example has loads of vehicles you can upgrade your marine squad with rocket launchers. And you can see them gain a rocket launcher! Each unit is individual so you can see when someone has a different gun to another.

Graphically though is where this is excelling. The ingame animation is amazing. I'm not going to describe it. But when Your commander kicks an orc in the head, spins round and stabs another with his chainsword it's just plain brilliant.

Amazing game. Buy it. Now. No, I said NOW!

In DoW, you have control points. This, coupled with a lack of balance, is the defining reason for the crappiness of this product. COntrol points are too easy to get, and there is no reall punishmnet for losing 1000 troops. Nice GFX though.

the battles are epic, and live up to the TT equivalent. the animations are excellent and the detail is rich and expansive.

Having been involved in the beta and dowloading the demo there can be only three words for it “buy this now!”

relic have out done themselves again! multiplayer mahem at its best !