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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition is the definitive Dawn of War experience, featuring the original Dawn of War game, and all of the game's expansions including Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Soulstorm, and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Winter Assault
Prepare yourself for the grim, dark future of the 41st millennium, where alien races battle mankind for galactic domination in a universe of unending war.
Personalize your armies with a revolutionary unit customization tool that gives you the ability to choose your armies insignias, banners, squad colors and names.
Engaging story driven single player campaign.
Command the elite chapter of the Blood Ravens in an original epic tale of treason and conspiracy as you serve the Emperor and protect humanity from the scourges of Warhammer 40,000 universe.
Master four unique races
Command your Space Marines, Orks, Chaos and Eldar in epic battles and master their distinct abilities, weapons, and tech trees to eradicate the enemy and rule the known universe.
Unprecedented realism
Appropriately scaled terrain, vehicle physics and dynamic lightning contribute to a level of realism never before displayed in a real-time strategy game.
Visceral cinematic melee and ranged combat
Realistic unit animations immerse you in intense brutal combat .
Pioneering tactical gameplay.
Innovations such as cover, squad-based combat, and morale add new strategic depth to real-time warfare.
Dynamic multiplayer
Test your true combat abilities in two-to-eight player battles providing endless re-playability
This expansion adds all-new units and strategies to the exciting gameplay offered by Dawn of War. The Imperial Guard brings new weaponry, including heavy armor, new troop units as well as defensive and ranged tactics overwhelming numbers. Coupled with new abilities, this fighting force is as lethal as they come.
Single-Player Campaign
Winter Assault offers two choices: the Order Campaign and the Disorder Campaign. The Order Campaign puts you in control of the Eldar and the Imperial Guard in their epic struggle to protect the Imperium of Man. In the Disorder Campaign, play as the Orks and Chaos Space Marines in their efforts to crush any resistance to their chaotic way.
Revel in new and improved gameplay features
A new tech tree, 100’s of new animations and endless new strategies will greatly intensify your Dawn of War experience.
Direct your troops in all out war
Command them across harsh new winter battlegrounds with enhanced urban terrain and additional interactive object and structures.
Improved multiplayer
20 new maps and advanced online features including observer mode, arranged team play and improved auto match push Dawn of War multiplayer to the next level.
Hone your multiplayer skills
The new skirmish option allows you to practice combat techniques against computer-controlled opponents on a multiplayer map.
Imperial Guard
Since the beginning of the Imperium of Man, the Imperial Guard has stood as its pillars of protection. With billions of men from more than a million different worlds, they are the largest and most diverse fighting force in the galaxy.
Deep under the central desert of Kronus, a vast honeycomb of skull-lined tunnels and funeral chambers house the awakening Necron menace. Eons ago, these were the boulevards and squares of a great necropolis built to house the bones of the races who had fallen to the Necrons, and ultimately were where the Necrons themselves retire to spend eternity. Over millions of years, sand and rock had covered it all until ill-fated excavations awoke the deathless.
New Races
Take command of two new playable races: Tau and Necron to unleash massive carnage across the frontlines of battle.
Expanded multiplayer
Dominate opponents online across 12 new multiplayer maps - with up to 8 players battling it out for supremacy.
Deep single player campaign
Conquer the planet of Kronus any way you choose - leading any one of seven races on an epic crusade through an all-new, non-linear single player campaign where you can experience unique storylines from each race's perspective.
Customization
Customize your hero's weapons, items and abilities as he grows in power and influence. Personalize your army with a variety of insignias, squad colors, banners and names.
The third and final expansion to the genre-defining and critically-acclaimed RTS, Dawn of War. In Soulstorm, two new armies are introduced – Sisters of Battle and Dark Eldar - raising the total number of playable armies to nine. The revolutionary meta-game that was first introduced in Dark Crusade is further expanded to an interplanetary scale, allowing players to battle across the star system.
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Posted on: May 25, 2023
emperorsfist
Verified ownerGames: 522 Reviews: 12
Absolute WH40k classic
This is one of the best series of RTS games from my childhood/teenhood. Do yourself a favour and get them, if you are a fan of the genre.
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Posted on: August 24, 2024
Weyen
Verified ownerGames: 2342 Reviews: 12
Questionable port of one of the best RTS
Dawn of War is probably my favorite RTS game to date. The base game is a pretty by-the-numbers "do a mission, watch a cutscene" type game with a mediocre story, but it's not bad. The first expansion, Winter Assault, is a bit better, letting you play two different campaigns. Then, you've got Dark Crusade, which has eaten hundreds of hours of my life. For Dark Crusade, the campaign is a fairly open ended war where you're directing where you attack next, which determines what battles you fight, and holding various regions gives you different bonuses, a formula which is so fun I'm surprised it hasn't become the default for RTS. Soulstorm is kind of a sidegrade, with a bit less polish but more playable factions. Overall, excellent games. The GoG version leaves a bit to be desired, unfortunately. The games are a bit crashy and unstable at certain points, which doesn't seem to be a problem with the other versions, and there's some weirdness with the multiplayer options that other reviews have more information on. Overall, though, still a great game.
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Posted on: May 26, 2023
iqfinal
Verified ownerGames: 370 Reviews: 15
The best voice acting in a video game?
Much as I rack my brain, I can't for the life of me think of a more endearing legacy of voice acting than those who performed for the Warhammer 40K: Dawn Of War tetralogy. And aside from StarCraft, has there been a better real-time strategy game on PC? Even without the amazing mods, it bests any modern-day RTS you can throw at it. It's just so damn good, and I'm happy to finally have it back DRM-free. Thanks, GOG!
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Posted on: May 26, 2023
fuggles
Verified ownerGames: 114 Reviews: 2
It's Dawn of War... again.
It's dawn of war, which is a phenomenal but elderly game. The basis is still rock solid and it's a fantastic wh40K RTS that plays differently to all the other sequels for reasons only relic can explain. the game is fun and there is still a very active mod community around Soulstorm. In terms of modding, please ignore those who say mods don't work as they very much do. Compared to steam it is not currently as good for Soulstorm mods in that specifically the mod manager application is designed for steam so the fog of war cannot be turned off. It also does not work on the DVD original copies. To be very clear here - this is absolutely not a GoG problem, it is not a scam, it is just the way the 3rd party application works - Perhaps the creator of mod manager will fix this in time, but who knows? I had to manually use the large address awareness (LAA) from moddb patch to alter the exe file manually to allow it to be a 4GB executable and not mod manager. You still get enhanced camera zoom, but there is fog of war as that's defined on the map itself. You could potentially remove all of these manually if you are playing either with friends or solo, as then map compatibility across the internet is not an issue. Alas, all hopes of this being a 64b version have gone, and ultimately at the time of writing if you want to play the mods then the better bet is to get soulstorm for £3 when it is on sale as a standalone product on steam.
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Posted on: March 31, 2024
datawraith236
Verified ownerGames: 912 Reviews: 22
Added more bugs
I still have the original release, and I have to say, the GOG version crashes far more often. Not sure why, but it crashes to desktop about every hour - not counting the instances that I clicked the "Commander" button on the planetary map screen, thereby eliciting a CTD as well.
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