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5 stars
Version: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War demo
"/worship. Easily the best RTS available today."
Pros: This game has finally brought the Warhammer 40K universe to the PC after several big flops *cough*Fire Warrior*cough*. While it eliminates the need to harves resources, it pacifies "dirt farmers" bay forcing the player to watch his/her resources. More tactically-minded gamers enjoy the ability to gain resources by holding strategic objectives. The game also caters to tabletop fans (like me) by including an "Army painter" to customize your Space Marines.
This game has and excellent squad-based mechanic, and though you cannot micromanage your units, it isn't really necessary. The squad-damage system is odd, but realistic and forces battles to be fought on a scale similar to that of the tabletop game. An impressive show of "ragdoll physics" is present, but units conduct their fights realistically rather than enacting generic "hack and slash" anims. beautiful graphics, though a wee bit (read: very) gory.
Cons: capturing a strategic point (control and resource node) takes an entire squad out of the game for too long. the game forces the player to work with small forces in different areas rather than hordes of low-level units. pulling an entire, ranked-up squad out of the action to capture a location is a pain in the ass. The game also lacks the capacity to use drop pods to deploy units anywhere on the battlefield, so that you are effectively constructing from a building, with drop pods and dropships nothing but pretty stuff. but oh, wht pretty pretty stuff!
bottom line: Get this game. You won't be disappointed. "Inquisitor=][=woolymarmot" is watching.
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