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15-10-2009, 04:36 PM
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Dawn of War bucked the trend of traditional real-time strategy games, which usually require you to chop wood and mine gold for a few minutes before you can build up a base, then churn out an army of military units. Instead, you chose one of the game's four playable sides (the fanatical space marines, the demonic forces of chaos, the swift-footed eldar, or the swarming armies of the orks) and forged ahead on the map, capturing strategic points for resources to build out a base, often getting into skirmishes early. In contrast, the expansion's new playable faction, the imperial guard, focuses on defense--that is, hanging back around a base, gradually researching higher technologies, and eventually bringing out the big guns.
Serious fans of Dawn of War, and of the colorful Warhammer 40,000 universe in general, might not find the new faction to be nearly as exciting as the elite troops of the space marines or the loutish orks and their ramshackle technology. However, the new faction seems to be pretty balanced; it adds a new, novice-friendly way to play the game (even if it isn't quite as exciting for experts), as well as a playable faction of actual humans that casual fans might relate to more than, for instance, the motley-colored eldar, who wear form-fitting power armor and speak nothing but arcane babble.
Presumably because Dawn of War's campaign focused mainly on the space marines, Winter Assault's single-player game focuses on the other four factions, in a series of objective-based missions much like those of the original game. The two-part campaign lets you play as the side of "order" (the imperial guard and the eldar) and the side of "disorder" (the orks and chaos) through five missions each. The campaign missions are pretty substantial (and in some cases, much more exacting than those of the original game). Finishing both halves of the campaign should take most real-time strategy fans between 10 and 15 hours, so you get a decent-size game to play through--and each half of the campaign branches at the very end.
Without giving away the story, we'll just mention that in both campaigns, the two factions you play as don't always get along and end up opposing each other; you then get the choice to play through the final mission as one of the two factions. While this is an interesting way to set up a campaign, the rest of the missions require you to switch between factions (either the imperials and the eldar, or the orks and chaos) repeatedly, which makes the experience seem disjointed. The campaign probably would've been more compelling if it had let you play as a single faction the entire way through.
Lost amongst the ruins of a leveled city lies an Emperor Class Titan, a war vessel of untold power forged in the planet-wide furnaces of Mars, and revered by billions as the epitome of Imperial dominance. The one who controls it will command the power to destroy, or defend, a world. The Imperials will summon it to overcome great evil, Chaos will corrupt it for their own designs, Orks will destroy it in their bloodlust and Eldar will disregard it in their arrogance. The expansion pack to the award winning Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War will build upon the most exciting, visceral, front-line battlefield ever seen in an RTS game. Winter Assault promises to be one of the biggest expansion packs ever.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/31403849/WINTER.ASSAULT.part10.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/31404086/WINTER.ASSAULT.part11.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/31404235/WINTER.ASSAULT.part12.rar
Dawn of War bucked the trend of traditional real-time strategy games, which usually require you to chop wood and mine gold for a few minutes before you can build up a base, then churn out an army of military units. Instead, you chose one of the game's four playable sides (the fanatical space marines, the demonic forces of chaos, the swift-footed eldar, or the swarming armies of the orks) and forged ahead on the map, capturing strategic points for resources to build out a base, often getting into skirmishes early. In contrast, the expansion's new playable faction, the imperial guard, focuses on defense--that is, hanging back around a base, gradually researching higher technologies, and eventually bringing out the big guns.
Serious fans of Dawn of War, and of the colorful Warhammer 40,000 universe in general, might not find the new faction to be nearly as exciting as the elite troops of the space marines or the loutish orks and their ramshackle technology. However, the new faction seems to be pretty balanced; it adds a new, novice-friendly way to play the game (even if it isn't quite as exciting for experts), as well as a playable faction of actual humans that casual fans might relate to more than, for instance, the motley-colored eldar, who wear form-fitting power armor and speak nothing but arcane babble.
Presumably because Dawn of War's campaign focused mainly on the space marines, Winter Assault's single-player game focuses on the other four factions, in a series of objective-based missions much like those of the original game. The two-part campaign lets you play as the side of "order" (the imperial guard and the eldar) and the side of "disorder" (the orks and chaos) through five missions each. The campaign missions are pretty substantial (and in some cases, much more exacting than those of the original game). Finishing both halves of the campaign should take most real-time strategy fans between 10 and 15 hours, so you get a decent-size game to play through--and each half of the campaign branches at the very end.
Without giving away the story, we'll just mention that in both campaigns, the two factions you play as don't always get along and end up opposing each other; you then get the choice to play through the final mission as one of the two factions. While this is an interesting way to set up a campaign, the rest of the missions require you to switch between factions (either the imperials and the eldar, or the orks and chaos) repeatedly, which makes the experience seem disjointed. The campaign probably would've been more compelling if it had let you play as a single faction the entire way through.
Lost amongst the ruins of a leveled city lies an Emperor Class Titan, a war vessel of untold power forged in the planet-wide furnaces of Mars, and revered by billions as the epitome of Imperial dominance. The one who controls it will command the power to destroy, or defend, a world. The Imperials will summon it to overcome great evil, Chaos will corrupt it for their own designs, Orks will destroy it in their bloodlust and Eldar will disregard it in their arrogance. The expansion pack to the award winning Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War will build upon the most exciting, visceral, front-line battlefield ever seen in an RTS game. Winter Assault promises to be one of the biggest expansion packs ever.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/31401468/WINTER.ASSAULT.part01.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/31401717/WINTER.ASSAULT.part02.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/31402029/WINTER.ASSAULT.part03.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/31402274/WINTER.ASSAULT.part04.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/31402521/WINTER.ASSAULT.part05.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/31402756/WINTER.ASSAULT.part06.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/31403051/WINTER.ASSAULT.part07.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/31403345/WINTER.ASSAULT.part08.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/31403592/WINTER.ASSAULT.part09.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/31403849/WINTER.ASSAULT.part10.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/31404086/WINTER.ASSAULT.part11.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/31404235/WINTER.ASSAULT.part12.rar