bit-tech News: Warhammer 40k Dawn of War: Soulstorm

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There’s a fair bit to like about Soulstorm. It’s stand-alone for starters, which means you don’t have hunt down an old copy of Dawn of War if you want to play it.

It also does a good job of wrapping up all the previous expansions and content from the original for those who just want to jump straight in and play, while at the same time being an excellent platform from which to backtrack into the rest of the series.

However, there are down sides. The graphics in particular are a sore spot and it seems like Iron Lore must not have been listening to fans of the original game who have long been crying out for a better view of the battlefield. The low-res textures and occasionally jerky unit animations too would have been easily fixable problems.

It’s a crying shame really that Iron Lore’s last game should prove to be such a…well, not a disappointment, but certainly a surpriseless game. The studio had an enormous amount of talent within it and could have been capable of much, but Soulstorm doesn’t really build on the quality of Dawn of War as much as it builds on the quantity.

In the end, Soulstorm is your typical, unimaginative expansion pack. It offers up more of what the hardcore fans might really like, but doesn’t stray at all from the formula and, in the end, that might put off a lot of people who have since found much better and graphically superior RTS games to invest their time in.

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