Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III Reviews

A lot of negative reviews are coming from people who wanted a totally different Dawn of War 3. This Dawn of War 3 is fun and exists and theirs is perfect and imaginary- your pick

i should have listened to the other people telling me the game was bad... it's worst that that ... I DO NOT RECOMMEND IT... stay away from this hot mess...

Actually completed and enjoyed it. A different vibe and much faster pace than the previous two games. Overall I felt they did a great job. Ideally would love more factions and content, but oh well. Recommended!

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II is better in every way except graphics. If you are looking for content and lore play the previous game edition instead.

A crime this is associated with warhammer or dawn of war at all, let alone dressed up as the third instalment of the DoW series.

Force you to play different factions in story campaign mode. Gameplay is worse than DoW2. What have you all been doing?

Overall 6/10 Not a bad game but it also falls short of being great, landing somewhere in the middle. The final campaign level is particularly disappointing. It consists of repetitive boss fights where you must wait for the boss to heal before engaging again, all while dealing with waves of minions. This design feels tedious and time-consuming, which detracts from the overall experience. Because of this, I would deduct a point from my rating; otherwise, it could have been a 7/10.

This game is insanely fun! I'm fairly new to the IP as a player but have actually heard of it over the years. I love RTS games and this one is amazing. I have no idea why nobody plays online besides with mods. It's still worth the purchase for the campaign and skirmishes for sure! Hopefully something can be done about the absence of players online though.

is very fun and has good mods, havent played pvp yet tho

About 100 hours on this game. And I can firmly say that I don't understand the hate behind this game? Sure we got people doing flips in term armor or the game being over-saturated and what not but besides that I really don't see anything else wrong with this game? - Gameplay: - Unlike the other two iterations of the game, this one has the biggest large-scale battles. The battles always look epic and is really the reason why I prefer this game over the 1st and 2nd, although, yes, it comes with the cost of having to wait for a while for your army to prepare. - This game obviously requires strategic and tactical planning. You can't just run in and invade the enemy without a plan. Your obviously going to have your army decimated like that. This game heavily encourages the use of teamwork and coordination between your teammates. (Yes Multiplayer still exists in this game) - Battles can range from taking 10 minutes, all the way to taking 2 hours or more (Yes, this almost happened). Depends who your working with and who your going against. - Mechanics and Elites: - For the others who are saying that elites are "overpowered units that decimate regular armies" clearly haven't played this game at all or a lot. I have found myself destroying (and getting destroyed) elites by just using a simple army. It's like I said before, you need strategic and tactical planning to counter these supposed "overpowered units". However, if those elites are used correctly, then yes, they can be a pain to deal with. - In my opinion, this game has the least amount of mechanics (probably due to the large-scale battles) than the other two games. You can only apply 2 weapons on a tactical marine squad and apply basic upgrades to units such as increased HP and damage, with some exceptions being applying land mines to a scout marine squad, increased slowness on devastator bullets and power swords for assault marines. - Doctrines are a key factor for your armies success, you can use multiple to benefit your whole army in general or specific doctrines for a certain play-style or unit. Doctrines (along with elites) can create various play-styles that you can use during your matches so that the gameplay doesn't get too stale. - Factions: - Sadly, this game only has 3 factions. The Space Marines, Orkz, and Eldar. Although, each one has a few unique features that make them differ from each other. Space Marines have their drop pods and the standard flag, orks have their resourcefulness by using scrap to buff or create more mechanized units at a cheaper cost while the eldar have their shield hp buff and they can teleport their bases/buildings anywhere across the map. Each clearly have distinct playstyles and none of them really counter one another, just depends on skill. - Modding: - There are some good mods that come from this game, granted, they're not really as great as Dawn of War's 1 and 2 mods. However, there are some mods like Deathwatch and Redux that heavily change the gameplay by adding more mechanics and implementing previously locked units or even new units into the game. - There are also some great maps that come from this game. My friend Playgu is an excellent map maker that focuses on both the balancing on the map, making sure that no side gets an advantage over the other and making them pretty as well. If anyone else is interested in making their own maps, Playgu has written a guide on how to make maps using World Builder in the Dawn of War 3 Guide tab. - Campaign: - Going to make this quick and simple. Plot: There is a spear on a Planet called Acheron that all three factions wish to get. Throughout the campaign, you play as a different faction each level fighting the other factions. Until one level, you play as all 3, just not all at the same time. Towards the end, the spear turns out to be a trap placed by a daemon that was used to lure people in to get the spear and kill them, which awakens the daemon in which each leader of the faction has to defeat in the end. They all team up in the end and kill the daemon. It's not too complex but its not the best as well. (After the end credits, we get a teaser of a supposed future necron faction update, although, this update never came) - Overall: - This game favors large scale battle and retains the strategic and tactical thinking from the previous two games. If done right, this game can be fun to play, especially with other online people. (Also remember to join the official dawn of war 3 discord server if you wish to play with other people online, https://discord.gg/z9QZturP4b )