Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition

This definitive edition is basically everything I've wanted from Relic to breathe new life into this game for newer systems. I still remember the day I walked into the store on the release of the original game back in the day. A glorious time. I still have the original boxes for the game and DLC as well (everything except Soulstorm) Only additional things I would love to see would be: - Tyranids! the last important missing faction, I could've done without sisters of battle or dark eldar to be honest. - Cloud save support for GOG, it seems to be there for Steam, but not GOG unfortunately. - WASD navigation support instead of arrow keys. - Ability to disable everything Soulstorm, and have skirmish work on Dark Crusade ruleset and units, it was a lot better imo.

Simply a welcome return; graphically it looks great, while the interface has aspects that make it better than several modern titles. As for single-player we have four pretty substantial campaigns, and the developers have done a great job especially with Soulstorm, as the unit pathfinding isn't as disastrous as the original. Perhaps they could have been a little more daring, but that would have required reprogramming the entire game from scratch, so that's fine. It's a shame you can't see the trailers for the various expansions (there's only one for the first game), but that's really a minor detail. Do you like Warhammer 40,000? Do you love brutal games where you fight with large, heavily armed armies? Then get this game without regrets, trust me.

The Definitive Edition has it's flaws without a doubt, but the potential (especially for modders) is insane. The Engine upgrades alone making sure of that. As someone who has stopped playing DoW without Ultimate Apocalypse many years ago, I can't wait to see what the team behind UA will do with this. While yes, as of now (20.08.2025) there are problems with compatibility, they are actively working on it. Also, the Definitive Edition has gotten two updates since launch, so I'm very hopeful that at least most problems will be fixed. One thing I'm not sure about every coming back is local multiplayer, which is a shame at best (as if that will stop piracy, lol).

It works, at least, on modern machines. However, the AI is still as bad as ever, soulstorm is completely broken and always was, with AI not playing for objectives on the Take and Hold missions and being quite useless in other modes too. Expected a little more polish in this. Overall, its about the same as it always was. Not sure if its worth paying more money to get the same game ported to modern machines. Might be, I will see how Multiplayer works.

I played through the first and second campaigns. Crashed once. Appreciate the zoom level change, the original is hard to look at without a zoom patch. But uh, where's the LAN play button? Also, skirmish is locked at the Soulstorm ruleset. Would have liked to be able to skirmish with different games (Dark Crusade). Haven't tried mods yet.