Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® – Winter Assault Reviews

8/10 good rts

Pity the Guardsmen.

game is great

missions were not really enjoyable.

In this expansion, the pathfinding somehow gets worse, and you thus get to babysit the guardsmen both in the story and in the gameplay. These people couldn't find their way to the end of a hallway if they had a map and a tour guide helping them along. Basically, in this one, you play the most irritatingly weak faction intermingled with the most unique one. Not that they're any smarter when it comes to avoiding obstacles.

If you like Dawn of War OG, you'll like this. Imperial Guard is a fun change of pace.

The landraider at the end has the worst ai in the game.

it was ok I played each game completely vanilla on windows 10 and all 4 games (Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition, Winter Assault, Dark Crusade, Soulstorm) booted up just fine they all had the same bug where every 20 - 40 minutes the screen would freeze up and the way to unstick it was to Ctrl+Esc then click back into the game so that was a little tedious however Dark crusade was extra bad where it was more like every 1 - 10 minutes the screen would freeze other issues are that moving your squads feels extremely similar to the old starcraft broodwar days of trying to make a mass of dragoons/goliaths to walk down a ramp (for those of you who don't know its pretty miserable) and other problems is sometimes your units just don't attack when they are right next to the enemy for some reason or a few times things would be invisible (I'm not talking about the intentional type of invisable such as cloaked units, Im talking about dropping a command center and after completing you are able to select a "barron" patch of ground to make units and whatnot with another issue is the super close camera view where you almost can't even see the entire range of some units because it is so close. the anniversary edition and winter assault also don't have widescreen support but supposedly mods have fixes for these video issues however I didn't use any of those last major problem I encountered on the soulstorm game is that after completing a level the game crashed and I lost about 2 hours of gameplay so I am not willing to replay that and it will get a negative recommendation other than those issues I actually liked the game enough to beat 3 of the 4 games

Playing any mission is practically impossible. Every mission is unnecessarily drawn out and overcomplicated, allowing only one specific solution. The game enforces an inflexible sequence of actions—any deviation, whether in constructing buildings or deploying troops, forces you to restart the mission repeatedly until you eventually guess the correct order. This rigid design leaves no room for error and makes progress frustratingly tedious.

I'm on a mission to play and review everything in my Steam Library, which has grown out of control. 40k Dawn of War is one of the best RTS games of it's time and one of the best 40k games period! I had hours of fun with this back in the day. I used to have an Imperial Guard army when I was a kid. Getting to play as them in a campaign was so much fun. Glory to the Emperor!