Warhammer 40.000: Dawn of War – Winter Assault: Review

You remember him? Yes him, the same Warhammer, who made a lot of noise last year in the ranks of strategies lovers. Let’s remember last year, it was really good .. Rome: Total War, Panzers And many other games pleased us. They were good, realistic, and Warhammer It was just excellent! Remember its three basic rules? Break, destroy and kill. Oh, how long we lacked this meat! What was the separation, and now, the guys dear to my heart from RELIC presented a pleasant gift: the continuation of last year’s meat, called Winter Assault. I can’t help but say and not say that all the hopes assigned to them were fully justified. The game came out what I need, and now I will tell you about it in more detail ..

Well, let’s start with what we are already familiar with: the resource production system. Remember, in all Rial Time Strategies, we were offered to obtain a forest, gold, well, something else, then rebuild the city, then collect units and, after all this,, in fact, go on a campaign. Immediately everything is much more fun: they immediately give us a squad and already with it, so to speak with cover, we are going for resources. And resources here give for the retention of special control points.

Here we smoothly switch to the first and perhaps the winstler-casino.uk most noticeable innovation: a new fraction. It is called “Defenders of the Empire“, These brave guys serve as a certain mysterious emperor, and their semantic load in the game fully justify their name. These very guys protect the very points for which resources give us. Oh, how we missed this in the original Warhammer’E … After all, after the capture of control points, the game, in principle, was reduced to the first, not very pleasant option for the development of events, namely: to the traditional Rial – the Time of Strategy. But now everything is much more interesting … Let’s get to know the new faction closer. They, like the “marine infantry”, appeared in the first part of the game, and like the “sea soldiers” consist of people, but with a rather low morality, which adversely affects during prolonged battles.

The guards have several powerful vehicles, also their pluses include the ability to move from building to building and use underground tunnels. Unfortunately, Winter Assault Still suffers from the innovative problems that appeared in the first part of the game, intelligence is still scarce, and it is still difficult to manage a large group of units. Often, sending them somewhere, you will suddenly find that they did not bother to make a step.

New campaigns have been built quite interestingly. We used to choose who we are closer to play in the spirit: for good, or all the same for evil. Now you don’t have to choose, the game decides everything for us, the campaign will now be both there and here. That is, we will play both for those (good ones), and for others (in fact, evil) in one campaign. I played 5 missions for good, switched you for evil, and so alternates … I don’t know, maybe my opinion is erroneous, but still in the original, the construction of the campaigns was more familiar to the gamer, and immersion in the atmosphere took place much more successfully than constant races from the race to the race. More about the campaign … they are completely based on scripts. Also, I will not judge as I like it, I will only give an example: in one of the missions, we will need to catch one of the generals of the orcs who escaped along the sewer pipes. So this very general will not go anywhere from us, we can explore at least the whole card, he will wait for us in a certain place, so laid down in the script … In general, the campaign will be more complicated than in the first part and will make you more strategic skills.

Multiplayer. He is just magnificent. Who played in the first part will understand. How many of my friends disappeared in clubs after it appeared there Dawn of War. Yes, there is undoubtedly multiplayer game was much stronger than the seal. Warhammer did not change traditions in Winter Assault left the same, almost perfect multiplayer. But our ward is all right with this: an excellent single -player campaign was added to a wonderful multiplayer game. Now it’s not much more boring to play one at home than with friends in the club.

And of course I can’t hide the story of you about presenting the game. In the sense of the performance that is going on on the screen … Graphics pleases the eye. True, it may seem that some characters from the “guards” look gray and nondescript compared to the fantastic coloring of other races, but absolutely all creatures are highly detailed and have many complex animations, they are especially impressive cars that are realistically swaying when the projectile gets in. A great addition is created by all sorts of turning that touches the heart, for example, the view of the falling snowball on the mountains of corpses during the lull is very impressive. Although, of course, the main thing is the battles themselves, which not only delight, but lead to piglet delight! All these explosions, fire – a dream of pyrotechnics. The music is good, it fits the definition of “windy and easily forgetting”, but this is a big plus! Because she does not hide the sound of a clanging weapon, these juicy explosions, fighting cliches … All this is really a performance on your monitor, the battle here is simply irresistible, I recommend ..

Winter Assault Not a full -fledged sequel, but rather a solid Addon, which will delight fans of the game and delight everyone else.