The scale of the battles and the units can be quite impressive as well. To help with this task, as is the typical way, you will be able to unlock more powerful units as you play and some of these units are definitely more impressive. The standard progression is here… the first few missions let you dip your toes in the bloodied water before suddenly dunking your head under that water and forcing you to fight your way back to a position of strength. As you play through the missions the Elite units build up experience points which are used at the end of each mission to level up and reward you for your efforts (again reminding me of The Battle for Middle Earth). As you play you will jump between each faction, a mission per faction, this no doubt helps with the concurrent story telling but also gives a bit of variety in the play style as you go along. Each faction has it’s own story that runs parallel and then clashes with each other. The game follows the three factions, Space Marines, Eldars and Orks. There is a bit of variety in the elite units too, not a lot but enough to give a bit of variety though they are predominantly jump with knockback or throw with similar and then area damage around the unit or the thrown weapon. You grab your elite unit, figure out which support units are best to complement it and off you go.
This isn’t a bad thing either (in my mind at least). The most obvious comparisons in terms of the game play are to say it’s a cross between the standard RTS games such as Command and Conquer and more recent variations on the theme such as DOTA… upon thinking about it… it actually reminded me a lot of LOTR The Battle for Middle Earth specifically in the restricted base building and elite unit department.
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I have heard that those who have played the series since the start may be disappointed that this has taken a different approach to both the first and second games, not having much experience with them I can’t verify that but perhaps keep that in mind if you are a long time fan and were hoping for something similar. With that out of the way… I enjoyed Dawn of War 3.
I think I may have dabbled with number one but only the demo so I’ve not played through one completely. I haven’t really followed the Dawn of War games, I want to get that out there to start with because I have no doubt it will impact how I review this.
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