Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Dark Crusade Reviews

Runs great on Linux! One of my favorite RTS games of all time.

Still one of the Emperor'd finest games.

Alwayse loved the DOW series dark crusade was the best so far.

I have forced unwilling men and women to fight a shard of a god. I will do it again~

It's been great for a long time, and still is.

i played a few games with my friend to learn to play and now i cant play online at all

Campaign is still fun, but playing through it multiple times for the ending can be a bit of a drag. This is because skirmishes for provinces usually involve just bum rushing the enemy base as soon as you can. Strongholds are where you can play a real DoW game. However, planning out which parts of the map to take and how to spend planetary requisition is an aspect of the game that elevates the overall campaign experience. Getting wargear for the commander is also a nice reward system. 8/10

Love the lore but unit path-finding is borderline unplayable which makes game-play just frustrating. I would recommend playing on easy just for the story-line.

An oldie but a goodie. In terms of classic base building RTS games this is one of the best, clearly taking inspiration from the like of Warcraft and Age of Empires, but adding new mechanics and maintaining the Warhammer 40,000 aesthetic. Ignore realism and forget about advanced squad controls as seen in later DoW games, this is an army control game. For all that though this game isn't perfect. Its showing its age in many ways, with somewhat clunky UI controls and missing quality of life elements. The enemy AI can be quickly overcome and starts unraveling if a game lasts too long, and the unit pathing and structure placement rules are a little janky in places. My biggest gripe is that units move to the minimum required range to target an enemy with the longest range weapon in the squad; if the unit has some weapons with longer ranges that means the shorter ranged squad members will just stand about doing nothing while the long range weapons blast away. Aside from a lot of small scale issues though Dawn of War Dark Crusade holds up in most regards. The graphics are remarkably detailed for the time, and especially given that they were designed for an RTS game. The gameplay is satisfying and rewarding. On singleplayer it remains fun despite the flaws in the AI.

I have been playing this game for nearly 20 years now. It provides something I cannot find elsewhere. fOr thE DarK GOds