The Game: Warhammer 40000 Dawn Of War: Soulstorm is the third expansion for Warhammer 40000 Dawn Of War which is one of the greater rts’ out there. created by Relic and i have to say they did a great job.
Story:7 It’s ok i enjoy the metagame map and it is one of my favorite ways to present a story though the story itself is rather simple. There is war and a lot of it. A absurd 9 way war over a single new system that has exited the warp and you are going to fight all of those wars.
Gameplay: 9.5
The best part about this game is it’s amazing gameplay the base building is solid and the combat is hectic and fun, there are some balancing issues like the fact a long game will always turn into a turtle fest. However all of the 9 races are unique.
The Space Marines: FOR THE EMPORER Heavy armored versatile elite fighters, they adapt to any situation by equipping different weapons to take on the fight at hand.
The Imperial Guard: SEND IN THE NEXT WAVE, the motto of the Imperial Guard who send line after line of expendable infantry overwhelming enemies with sheer bulletstorms and artillery raining down from the sky.
The Sisters Of Battle: PURGE THE UNCLEAN, these nuns with guns enjoy burning demons and heretics with pure faith as their shield and actual FIREpower as their sword.
Tha Orks: WAAAGH! Green iz Da Bestest These space orks with their cockney voices only know war and they charge in with monstrous amounts of boyz to chop the enemy into pieces scrap whatever armor or tanks they find and ORKIFY it so that ‘dey can use it.
The Eldar: We Ride The Tempest We Bring The Storm. An elite race of space elves that make up for their small numbers with elite ranged weapons and plenty of teleporting nonsense.
The Dark Eldar: I Do Not Fear Death, Death Fears ME. Remember the Eldar well these are Eldar corrupted by the warp, in gameplay these guys do 3 things Vehicles they do them alot, Collecting dead souls to use as a tertiary resource, and morale damage, they have guns that do morale damage, swords that do morale damage, items that do morale damage, spells that do morale damage, vehicles that do morale damage, buildings that do morale damage, and grenades that do morale damage. It’s what they do.
The Chaos Space Marines. BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD DEATH TO THE EMPEROR, Space Marines touched by the warp and corrupted they now make pacts with chaos gods for power but they must give them something for example a pact with khorne means you must kill things often but you will get powerful demons to fight with you. they use elite melee focused units as well as elite vehicles.
The Necron: We Have Returned. An Ancient race of machines that have awakened to take over the galaxy, with elite units that move slowly but have high health and damage as well as the ability to come back to life make them very effective turtlers.
The Tau: I can’t even quote these guys because they are too awesome i mean they are Space Communist Mecha Weeaboos alright Space Communist Mecha Weeaboos, in gameplay they don’t know what melee is unless they make kroot but really they have lazer guns that are good lazer guns they have railguns and artillery suits and jetpacks and asndfjksadfhgjs,d they are the best.
The Look: 8
It looks pretty good but it could be a bit better or more stylized.
The Universe: 8
There is so much universe for warhammer 40000 it’s not even funny however only a little bit of it is given in quotes, and background text on maps.
Soundtrack: 8.3
It’s epic and it fits the battle scenes perfectly however it’s difficult to listen outside of game, and it doesnt fit some parts of base construction.
Overall: 9
