Dawn of War

[JonatanRaven]

• The resource management
  • The fact that you don't harvest resources but rather capture strategic points is refreshing. Although I think that would be more suitable in a RTT-game than in an RTS-game. It's a lot more suitable in Company of Heroes or games like Close Combat.
    
• The units
  • Yes, I agree about the units, to a degree. You're only able to build light units at the start and you upgrade to heavier units in the classical RTS-style. Although, so far, I've found the lighter units to get obsolete once you get access to the heavier units, and with the steep limitation to how many units you can produce (in the sp-campaign at least), well, I just don't like that.
    
• Online play
  • I will refer to my SIG once again. I haven't played online so I can't really have an opinion of that aspect, but from my experience with other RTS games, that's where the fun part is. Most RTS-games I've played has had mediocre (at best) single player campaigns but has made up for that flaw with online gameplay.
    
• Races
  • I've only played a few skirmish games to try out the other 3 races that are in the original game, and yes, the unit's are slightly different and the way you produce your tech is also slightly different. On the whole, they seem very balanced, but this also makes for rather similar units. Yes, I agree that if you're ALREADY a 40k fan, it IS a great game. If you're just another RTS-fan though, it's not that great (I am a bit of a 40k fan though).
    
• Non-mainstream RTS
  • Well, the main reason I haven't played some of those titles is that I haven't had a computer of my own over the last 5 years or so. The ones that I've borrowed hasn't been top-of-the-line computers, so I pretty much haven't bothered buying new games, but rather I've comtinued playing the mainstream, a bit older ones.
    
• Game development in general
  • Well, it's true as you say, "why fix it if it ain't broken".
    
  • But HL always sucked and Bf1942 made that category of games a lot more fun.
    
  • Sports management games always sucked too, so I never played them (they were boring in the first place so why bother).:P
    
  • Yes, the graphics are better and the AI's probably improved, but the game-play? I just don't think DoW adds a lot to the gameplay and I could play a remake of Warcraft and have just as fun. This is where units and races come in, it's always fun to try a new game because of them.
    

Anyways, I'm not saying DoW isn't a good game, I just fail to see the greatness of it. I think I'm more of a RTT-gamer anyways, so CoH is more my style.

If I ever get my connection to work properly, I'll take any of you bastards on (as long as I can be the Orcs!)!

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