Dawn of War: Soul Storm demo

games: Dawn of War: Soul Storm demo

January 30 2008 | WilHarris

In the grim darkness of the far future… wait a second… I feel like I’ve been here before…

But you can never have too much Warhammer 40K, as Soulstorm, the latest expansion of the Dawn of War series for PC, looks set to prove. Take a look at this little preview based on the recently released demo and see what you think. DoW was always a very well built real-time strategy game, and this seems to continue those standards and supplements them with the some neat new features. I certainly enjoyed being able to play as the twisted and bloodthirsty Dark Eldar, and the Sisters of Battle are looking interesting too.

You can download the demo yourself from FilePlanet, and keep your eyes peeled for the full game in the first week of March.

Whether it was intentional or not, Dawn of War and Squad Command compliment each other really well, providing epic depth and tight skirmishing respectively so neither has to compromise. Ah, happy place…

Anyway, to those who don’t read the ChannelFlip mainpage, apologies for the break from our regular schedule on Monday. Things are back to normal now. Do check back for forthcoming shows on Burnout Paradise, Geometry Wars: Galaxies, the Turok demo, Advance Wars: Dark Conflict (aka Days of Ruin), and a couple more emulators.

Good hunting,

-Katharine

comments

Centy

January 30th, 2008 - 5:59pm

Nice finally a review of a PC game I was getting tired of seeing 360 rubbish. Soulstorm does look awesome though I think it’s downfall will be the confusion over if it’s an expansion or a full game or what you need to own before hand blah blah blah.

Am I right in assuming you would need this and Dark Crusdade to play all races in multiplayer or would I need to get Winter assualt and the original aswell?

Matches

January 30th, 2008 - 7:52pm

Nice review.
I basically agree that the graphics argument is missing the point somewhat and the “outdated” graphics keep the game accesible to a wider audience. Still, with every addon they release for DoW I would like to see DoW 2 more, perhaps with the nice region system from Company of Heroes added into the mix, and updating the visuals. That would definitely improve the already detailed battles and the “weee! Look at them go!” feel of the game. No other RTS I played delivers that for me, so I’d definitely like to see that improved

Matches

February 1st, 2008 - 11:51am

@Centy:
As far as I know you only get to play the races you “purchased” in multiplayer, meaning the races that are added by the respective expansion:
DoW brings Space Marines, Chaos Space Marines, Orks and Eldar, Winter Assault adds the Imperial Guard, Dark Crusade adds Necron and Tau, and Soulstorm adds Dark Eldar and those Sisters of Battle.
So, if you only own Soulstorm and Dark Crusade you’ll only get to play Necron, Tau, Dark Eldar and Sisters online, I guess. At least that’s how it worked before Soulstorm, I don’t see why that should change. If you want every race you’re probably going to have to buy the whole bundle.