Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War Soulstorm
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Video Game Reviews of Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War Soulstorm
Customer Review: They're improving, but theres still more they can do
Summary: 4 Stars
Dawn of War: Soulstorm, is a modified expansion of Dawn of War similar to Dark Crusade. Rather than battle for a planet, you now contest an entire solar system. Areas and groups are more broken up more this way, connected by Eldar webway gates(starports). The storyline involves every group up this point, which now includes the Dark Eldar and the Sisters of Battle, a zealotrous church of the Emperor.
The storylines for each group are entertaining, voice acted well, and have their own interludes, which are beautifully narrarated. Each faction thats defeated has its own "death story" depending on who defeats them. However, the final stages of each faction are repetitive, and once you know the secret, its a matter of hammering them with enough troops. This gets exponentially harder as the game increases in difficulty.
The graphics are solid, with minimal repition in the faction holdings, but limited to generic city, forest/jungle, or desert waste. The sprits are fun to watch, and several have their own unique attacks. The Dreadnoughts and Warwalkers still are my personal favorite. The game has similarly expanded to include simple air units, that have varying levels of usefullness depending on the faction being played.
The game is fun in that the storys are worth playing, but this game serves to epitomize a famous line of Sun Tzu's: Know thyself, and know thy enemy, in 100 battles, 100 victories. Once you figure out how a faction is supposed to be played, and once you are exposed to each faction HQ, and know how they need to be attacked, the gameplay becomes mechanical. The learning curve varies, but is overall rather short, and so the game quickly becomes more like work. Thankfully, the HQ levels are frustrating and engaging in equal measure, so they manage to remain appealnig even in light of their repetitiveness.
Customer Review: Dawn of War Soulstorm
Summary: 2 Stars
The game is not very good because the campaign is lacking consistancy. During battles for each region of each planet you spend a ton of resourses on ifrastructure. After the battle ALL of your hard won buildings are gone! each time you defend that region you start from scratch. The buildings are just plain gone. It made the campaign inconsistant and unbelievable. In the previous Dark Crusade you keep all of your infrastructure exept that which is built where the invaders starting area is. Thats understandable. Soulstorm is a disapointment in spite of the addition of two new races. They also give bad reasons why the different arms of the Empires militaries have to fight one another.
JPB
Customer Review: Buggy unsupported mess.
Summary: 1 Stars
The expansion would be excellent but for the fact that it has show-stopper bugs that have yet to be patched six months past release date.
An example of such a show-stopper bug is an infinite resource bug in one of the expansion races. Anyone familiar with an RTS should realize just how critical a bug like this is, but here we are, six months out with no patch.
Buy at your own risk.
Customer Review: Sweet
Summary: 5 Stars
I have to say, I had my doubts about this from what I had read, but I've been playing it, and it rules! Obviously there isn't a huge amount of new stuff here, but the campaign is actually really solid and interesting; the Dark Eldar and Sisters are both really exciting to fight against, at least, and are totally new. I'm not a hardcore RTS strategist and mainly play the game for the atmosphere and polish, and those are both really great here. The visual and thematic elements are great, and this campaign easily equals or even exceeds Dark Crusade's. Too bad Iron Lore is dead :( Hopefully warhammer stays this good! Customer Review: A Great Sequal But Bring The Power
Summary: 4 Stars
I have loved the Warhammer 40K Dawn of War series. They've brought a futuristic setting in a blood lust Strategy game. Kind of an RTS on crack if you'd ask me.
The gameplay is very cool, lots of gore and interaction. With Campaign and Skirmish modes, you can decide to rule the galaxy or just battle it out with your enemies.
I personally like the Total War games better, because more strategy is supplied in the game. But, Dawn of War has brought alot of fun interactions.
I would only get this if your computer can handle it though. I've been able to play all the other Dawn of War games except this one without serious issues on my computer. Dawn of War: Soulstorm demands at a minimum: Windows 2000/XP; 512MB Ram (for 8-Player multiplayer); 2.0Ghz Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon XP or equivalent processor; 3.5 GB free hard drive space; 8X DVD-ROM drive; 64mb direct x9.o compatible AGP video card with hardware transformation and lighting, DirectX9.0 compatible sound card, 16 bit; and ofcourse Keyboard and Mouse.
I believe the reason i had issues playing this game is because of the dvd rom drive because i dont think it's a dvd rom... or because my Dell Laptop doesn't have such a good processor...
I have a Dell Latitude|D600, it has played Total War: Rome with minimum to no problems, all other DoW games flawlessly, Counter-Strike online on minimum settings with hardly any low fps on good servers, and World of Warcraft with lag spikes here and there. I think it's just because i beginning to go out of date lol.
Plus, laptops aren't exactly the best thing to play games on unless it's actually made for it. And if you want a laptop made for it go to AlienWare, because they are definitely the best for a price. A very not so nice of a price =P... but if you've got the buck, you can get the best.
Anyways, Overall the game was fun on my friends custom desktop and i would recommend it to anyone who likes a good stretegy game to anihilate your enemies in. I hope you enjoy the game as much as i have and believe like me that this is a great sequal to one of the best strategy games ever.