Comments on: The RPS Verdict: Dawn of War – Soulstorm

By: vinraith

vinraith — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:22:23 +0000

DoW has always been saved by its mods. The camera zoom is easy to fix, and the Dawn of Skirmish AI is fantastic (while the vanilla AI is crap), and in Soulstorm’s case the community even released a bugfix mod (incorporating the DoS AI mod) that fixes almost every problem with the game. There’s no reason, as an old DoW player, not to move on to Soulstorm at this point IMO.

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By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:59:41 +0000

I think 40k, just because it’s not one world, is a lot trickier than – say – Warhammer Fantasy or any other fantasy. Amongst other reasons.

By: minus

minus — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:42:37 +0000

Aha, I could edit that part out of my post, but i’m well behaved so i won’t.

It seems that I mistook Napoleonic era for the Colonization period, but my general point still stands. I’m not really looking forward to the next Total War Game due to the setting. I will probably change my mind when I play it.

40K isn’t realistic but AFAIK it has a seriously huge amount of information, back story etc. it may work if they approached the fiction as history?

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:35:50 +0000

Minus: You sure you don’t mean the other way around? I presumed the US people wouldn’t care about the Napoleonics whatsoever.

I’m also unconvinced the Total War approach would work with 40k. 40k isn’t a realistic universe, and Total War’s always been about an almost wargame-esque like devotion to simulating something.

That said, I’ve been telling anyone I know at Creative Assembly for the best part of a decade that they should do a Fantasy game of some sort.

KGF

By: minus

minus — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:12 +0000

Have to agree with many points. Mainly, that $40 is too much for me. I have recently purchased DoW:Platinum for $30 or so on steam. It’s not an issue of not having the money.

I’m not really going to bend over and pay £10 per race. TBH, they’re milking it too much now and I really hope this is their last expansion pack before DoW2

What we need is Total War: WH 40k, not Total War:Men in tights with poo guns, in a pretty un-exciting period of history that no one outside the USA really even cares about.

By: MU the liability

MU the liability — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:44:54 +0000

I love me some DoW, bought Soulstorm and am having a ball with it. Refuse to touch the campaign, only playing multiplayer. A shame about the game breaking sisters resource bug but hey, whaddya gonna do? Any hints on the exclusive in the forthcoming PC Gamer – gotta be Dow2…

By: Alec Meer

Alec Meer — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:25:52 +0000

That’s because they’re almost entirely inconsequential.

By: Fumarole

Fumarole — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:19:20 +0000

While the cutscenes do look mostly bad, I just cannot see how anyone thinks the in game animations are terrible. I certainly have not seen another RTS with such varied and terrific sync kills. Sure, maybe the engine is starting to look dated, but the game does a lot with what it has, methinks. Purging the star system with flames as the Boobie Marines was a great hoot.

Also – no mention of the flying units? For shame!

By: FaceOmeter

FaceOmeter — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:11:49 +0000

I’m gonna say this just one more time. And someone at THQ had better be listening…

TYRANIDS

By: Boris

Boris — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:21:41 +0000

I’m with Kieron. With the Dark Crusade system you could spend 45 minutes putting together the right defence so that when two enemy bases emerge fully formed you can wipe them out in less than 20 minutes.

With the new system you spend a few hundred big map req on garrison units and you can end the match with a rush in five minutes.

So much quicker, easier and fun. It’s just a shame they feel the need to include tiresome defence missions in the first place. I realise it’s supposed to make it feel like you’re fighting against an enemy who’s also trying to take over the system, but when they uselessly throw their armies against the same province time and time again it’s a little pointless.