Dawn of War Anthology


by Alastair Harris - Date: 2006-12-31 - Word Count: 339 Share This!

Anyone who loves getting a white dwarf magazine is going to love this computer games package.

Dawn of War Anthology is a package that includes the original Dawn of War and its two expansions. THQ produced a great series of games in the command and conquer style of battle but strongly set in the world of warhammer.

Dawn of War gives you the opportunity to play 4 armies - space marines, chaos marines, orks or eldar. You have the ability to play online or play a campaign story. The introduction film is the best computer game intro. I have ever seen. There is a opportunity for an animator to make a killing if they produce a TV series based in the warhammer world similar to the quality of the intro. clip.

Dawn of War Winter Assault adds a new army - the imperial guard - with very much the feel of a traditional human army.

Dawn of War Dark Crusade adds the Tau and the Necrons and a new campaign map allowing the battle for a whole planet.

Each race, its army and buildings it very much inline with there portayals in the white dwarf magazine. As such the developers THQ have been fantastically true to the franchise. This means you can feel the differences in playing each race. The Tau for example (saving for their koot allies) are best at long range attack and stealth. The Imperials their tanks and squads. The Marines are just tough especially with their hard core dreadnoughts. The Orks are the masters of hand to hand combat. Eldar have an esoteric feel with mystic gates etc. The Necrons likewise with temple fortresses, etc.

The playing experience it generally top class with great graphics, sound. My only criticism is that sometimes the bigger equipment can get stuck behind buildings and can be abit thick in finding their way around the battlefield. There is also no self destruct mechanisms.

You require windows 2000/XP, 2 Ghz Intel Pentium 4, 512MB RAM, DirectX 9.0c, 64MB AGP Video Card, 9GB Free hard drive space, DVD-ROM Drive, Sound Blaster.


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