Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War Winter Assault Demo

The Warhammer 40,000 universe stretches back a few decades and it encompasses countless pages of lore, history and explanations for every race that's part of it. Since the game has been played even in table-top form, there are a lot of stories concerning the evolution of each race and planet, as well as various conflicts and wars that took place between the factions over the millennia.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War Winter Assault is an expansion pack for the highly-acclaimed RTS that took the gaming industry by surprise, thanks to the very refined gameplay mechanics and respect for the original lore. Thus, the story needed to continue, especially since the universe contains so many different races that are always on the lookout for the next war they can get involved in.

In this expansion, the Imperial race is introduced and the campaign centers around their attempt to find and take control of the Emperor Class Titan, which is a very powerful and large machine that is theoretically able to make the race that owns it almost invincible. Naturally, the other factions are not just going to sit and wait for the Imperials to become unstoppable and they start looking for the construct as well, fighting each other whenever they get a chance.

In RTS games, balancing is of capital importance, since every race must be equal in strength and power. Thus, only the player controlling them should be the one who makes the difference, by coming up with clever ways to use the units and their abilities. Hence, this new race must adhere to these standards and integrate with the rest of the game, which, in this case, is fully achieved.

Beside the campaign that allows you to play as either Chaos or Order, there are also there is also the skirmish mode, which gives you the opportunity to face off against computer-controller players, or people from all over the world in the multiplayer mode. Here the battles get real, since every player must build a powerful army and destroy the rest of the opponents, as is the case in all the other RTS games until now.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War Winter Assault brings exactly what was needed to enrich the experience of the original installment : a new race, a new campaign and a lot of new multiplayer maps to play on in skirmish mode. Hence, you are provided with dozens of additional gameplay hours and plenty of new things to do.