[an0n]

It kicks so much goddamn ass.

The best way to describe it would probably be: Starcraft 2.

Only, online Starcraft (and previous Warcraft games) it's not simply a case of building everything as fast as possible and marching 300 Terran Marines into the enemy base and winning.

To build in different areas you need to control strategic and critical points.

And as for the difficulty.......I had a 6-player skirmish going with 2 comps on my side and 3 against me. I got my goddamn ass handed to me. I was fighting for the same strategic point for over 2 hours, taking it, losing it, retaking it, having one of those collosal elephant things wipe out half my guys.....

It's crafted so that you can never do with just a single type of unit or a single strategy. If you try the en-masse thing, it'll work for a while, but then something stupidly huge will come barging in and obliterate your defences in one strike.

Just to keep the territory I had (all 3 points of it), I had to build about 20 automated missile turrets, drop Dreadnaughts from orbit as quickly as possible, put Predator tanks on continuous contruction and STILL rely on my allies for periodic rushes of friendly troops to beat back the massive onslaughts the computer kept throwing at me.

This game kicks some serious ass. And the intro movie is truly amazing in regards to quality and gore.

Anyway, I'm tired.

*wanders off*

[Grug]

lol.

I love the intro movie yeah.

I'll have to buy sooner or later, but over the next couple months there are heaps of games coming out that I'm looking forward too.

Battle for middle Earth, Rome, Doom3 for Xbox, and I daresay that HL2 might make it before holiday season...

DoW does sound awsome though...

[Stealth]

yeah it's a badass game, definately better than Warcraft III and Starcraft.  i can see that game going a looong loong way

[Thorn]

Installing it now >:E

[Fear]

Originally posted by Stealth
yeah it's a badass game, definately better than Warcraft III and Starcraft.  i can see that game going a looong loong way

you cant compare it to starcraft because stracraft is classic. it had one of the best story ever wirten for a pc game ,ever!.
so do Warc3.

i think though the real competiton is btween warc3 and DOW, i still think warc3 is better for single and multi but Dow multiplayer community just begun so i need to wait a few months before deciding.

beside Dow is very warcraftish in its gameplay. very.

[Thorn]

What the hell version of DoW are you playing? The gameplay is nothing alike.

[Dark_4ce]

* a single tear runs down my cheek*

*sniff*

Finally. A game worthy of 40k. I guess I gotta start expecting of people dropping by our store asking about Blood Ravens.

[Fear]

Originally posted by Thorn
What the hell version of DoW are you playing? The gameplay is nothing alike.

check the game... even the graphics remind me of warcraft.
not to metion the point of view, or the start wich u see a marine exactly how in warc3.

[Ace]

Dawn of War is fun

I enjoy it more than War3 due to the macromanagement, not micromanagement.

Rome: Total War is also awesome. It's the game that I was hoping Master of Orion 3 would have been. It's major flaw is not having the campaign mode as a multiplayer option, which would have rocked in so many ways.

I'm going to have a hard time juggling time between life, classes, and these two games

[diamondgeezer]

Dawn of War > Things that aren't Dawn of War

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Ace

Rome: Total War is also awesome. It's the game that I was hoping Master of Orion 3 would have been. It's major flaw is not having the campaign mode as a multiplayer option, which would have rocked in so many ways.

 

They removed that because games would take ~2 years to complete, IIRC

[IceFire]

Links please?

[aldo_14]

For demos?
http://www.totalwar.com/community/download.htm
http://www.dawnofwargame.com/uk/news.php?article=39

[Rictor]

I've tried like 4 times to install the demo, and each time it tells me there is no space, even though I have a few hundred megs more than required.

RICTOR SMASH!!

get this: to accomodate the demo, which is about 300 megs, I have unistalled the following demos: Farcry, Prince of Persia, Call of Duty and Splinter Cell, which total more than a gig of space, and I STILL don't have enough. The thing wioth my comp is, it almost always shows the diskspace wrong, so any time when you need an accurate number, you have to run Scandisk. But I've done that, restarted, and still not enough.

and to save even more space, the actual demo file is on another computer.

[Thorn]

It's because its stupid installing the game, it extracts all the files, then extracts them all again, THEN copies it to the install folder. So you really need 4 times what it says.

[Rictor]

VICTORY IS MINE!!



muchas gracias Thorn.

[Stealth]

Starcraft may be classic, but that doesn't mean that a newer game won't shatter it.  i mean i've played Starcraft almost daily for the last few years... until i started playing dawn of war.

[Fear]

so u are going to compare doom2 to doom3 aswell? you cant compare a game to a classic, because for its time it had superb graphic, and for its time it had the best storyline and owns movies. and for it time it had the best music \voice acting around...

well you get the point i just think that until starcraft2 will come out u cant compare DOW to SC1 unless Dow will become classic when SC2 will be gold

[Fear]

any 1 want to arrange a game?

[Thorn]

That didnt make a goddamn bit of sense.
Either way, you cant even compare the two. Sure, they're both an RTS, but other than the perspective, they're completely different in terms of gameplay.