Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 3 Review

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1. the combat seems slow to me

2. Tried DOW 3 and I'm about to uninstall it, It's like a university student project. I felt like this should be even DOW 0 beta (before the first one). I think DOW 2 is still the best in my mind. I want the same develop team back to make my DOW 4!!!!!

3. Just play Soulstorm w/ UA mod.

4. Good as Dawn of war II you say, but is it good as Dark crusade? Because that's the real question.

5. Program political survive monitor seat trouble along asleep privacy crop.

6. Medieval battle tactics brought to the fourtieth millenia. Star Wars would be proud!

7. relic has abandon us.. goddamn mother fuckers

8. WARNING: this game needs STEAM to run

9. I want the Dev's to expand the game like what they did on the first Dawn of war, like how they slowly added factions, new units and the new campaign mode like Dark Crusade had, if they did this I'll be more than happy to buy their game. This is just my opinion tho.

10. 7.6 for a game that died in the first month, good to know IGN is as reliable as reviewers as ever!

11. DOW3 = a DOW game without all the great features from DOW1 and DOW2. I'd rather play Life of the Black Tiger.

12. Any superfans here who have a comparison to DoW I for me?

13. we WANT THQ DAWN OF WAR not this starcraft poser!

14. This is in the new Humble Monthly!! Insta purchase!!

15. It felt even longer because they don't have autosave…
    I disagree it felt longer because resource collection was so slow.

    Saying that actually a fair review by IGN. Brought up most of what I felt about DoW III. Though the high level of micro means I would have given it a lower score.

16. "divisive Warcraft 3"? I never heard a single person speak badly of that game.

17. But it doesn't look good

18. i want to know we can play the skirmish in offline ?

19. Can't they just do a remake of dow1 with better graphics and all the race in one package?

20. No khaos, no support from me.

21. Soulstorm will always be my favorite, followed by Retribution.

22. DOW III: Every faction plays like Imperial Guard

23. Honestly just add a retreat/reinforce button, re-engineer cover system, update unit cards and that would probably fix this game somewhat

    I also need more gamemodes

24. People complaining that Relic is reinventing too much when reinventing too much is what made them good in the first place

25. All I heard is you don't like it because it's not easy. Learn how to manage your armies and get good lol

26. TL;DR of this review:

    1. There is a lot of micromanagement
    2. You have to manually save the game
    3. There is menu upon menu for complex hero level progression. It may overwhelm a new player
    4. Dan Stapleton didn't feel comfortable with any of the factions until the tail end of the singleplayer
    5. There is only one mode for multiplayer with few maps, not a lot of variety

    7.6 It's ok.

27. It's a trap, don't buy it. Don't even get it for free. That is how bad it is.

28. The first thing I did after playing DOW3 for an hour? Went back to playing DOW2!

29. THIS GAME IS PURE HERESY!

30. Hermi on Steam Reviews put it perfectly.

    "Relic has through many masterpieces developed a peculiar unique sub genre of RTS. We have seen amazing features in their past games, such as:

    -the cover system
    -morale system
    -supression
    -garrisonable buildings
    -veterancy
    -retreating
    -fully destructible enviroment, including the ground
    -♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sync kills

    and I'm sure I forgot some.

    NONE OF THE ABOVE FEATURES ARE IN THIS GAME!!! NONE! 0! NULL!

    all the effort and years of mastery throughout various masterpieces has gone into creating this unique and incredibly enjoyable recipe and then suddenly, for this game, they dropped it all.

    Please go back to the old style Relic. If you want the larger scale,maybe make the micro less significant, but do not trash everything that made your games great…

    4/10"

31. WHERE IS WARCRAFT 4 ALREADY ?

32. the best thing about DOW was how accessible it was, now it is just like every other RTS

33. Lesson for all game developers. When you make sequel for a game, DO NOT even dear to try to innovate or something new. Fan players with hate you for it and ultimately leads to bad reviews.

34. Had I made Dawn if War 3. There would be a cutscene of Isador the Librarian being given another chance by the Chaos Gods and being given the opportunity to get revenge against Gabriel. Isador would be a Chaos sorcerer in this game. My Dawn of War 3 Would have been a Dawn of War 1 style game with the latest CryEngine graphical system.

35. Retreat button? Space Marines dont know the meaning of the word, "Retreat" we will fight to the last man standing!

36. This video needs more dislikes 🙂

37. Worst game of the series.
    #dankemerkel

38. this game looks like a mess

39. FFS IGN This is not a dawn of war game.

40. Does anyone know the song used here?

41. So basically this is a DOTA game… DOW 1 Dark Crusade campaign was amazing

42. If you want to play a good RTS play, Myth: the Fallen Lords and Myth 2: Soulblighter.

43. Great review. I hate it when RTS's go this direction. This is what killed age of empires, messing up base building and economy and making everything waayy to complicated :/ such a shame

44. I was expecting more, not a bad game do :).