Warhammer: 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade Add-On (PC)

This game has opened my eyes to a new and diverse world of Warhammer 40k. This RTS has many and I mean many features from orignial music to funny sayings. The campaign has many aspects that will keep you occupied for a long time. The campaign can be played as any of the factions of the 40K world. The Multiplayer expirience is simply mid blowing although it would probably better suited under a different software not gamespy. The onbly thing lacking is a proper ranking system. The game adds new depth and challenges to the Dawn of War world which has already developed to an amazing degree. The new units allow many different tactics which as said before will keep you glued ...  Read the complete review

I am in two minds about how to review this product. The Dawn of War game is very good, a playable squad-based RTS which includes good action but rewards subtle strategy fairly well. However, this is the expansion pack, and probably the expansion pack I enjoyed the least out of the several that were released. Partially this is down to the background material it is based on - I always felt that the Necrons were one of the weaker armies in the Warhammer canon, coming across as pseudo-undead and not much more, probably only matched by the Manga-lite Tau. And partially it is down to the fact that I did not find the campaign and the necron ...  Read the complete review

I bought this add-on as part of a "Dawn of War" anthology set, which also included the original "Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War" game and the first expansion "Winter Assault" Dark Crusade adds two new races to the game - Tau and Necrons - giving you up to 7 races to play as in both Single and Multi-player modes. To use all 7 in multi-player mode, you must have the original game and Winter Assault, but Dawn of War is unique in my experience in that you don't have to have the original game to play this expansion. The single player campaign does not have a storyline. Instead, you are given a map of the world of Kronus, ...  Read the complete review

I swear these guys are trying to get every race in the universe of Warhammer marching on your screen aiming at the face of another race, that is also, marching on your screen. Warhammer Dark Crusade gives the player 2 additional races alongside the 5 the previous titles would give you. The two races in this particular case are the Tau and Necron fighters, an enslaving spiritual race bent of unifying the universe with their ways, through force if necessary, and Necron, a great civilization of technology that has been in a deep slumber for eons. It seems with every addition there is always rebalancing issues. Make the other races weaker/stronger here ...  Read the complete review

Dark Crusade is the 2nd expansion to THQ's Dawn of War series. Set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, Dark Crusade adds to the original premise of Dawn of War's strategy game play by giving you both 2 more races (the Necrons and Tau) and an enetirely new way to play the campaign mode. Instead of a mission-based story, the campaign in Dark Crusade gives you a map of the planet Kronus. The map is divided into several small regions, and you take it in turns with the opposing races to move your army to another region, and fighting for control of it. These regions all have distinct advantages to capturing them, from more troops to start each fight with, to the opportunity to ...  Read the complete review