Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War Soulstorm | 
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| From: THQ
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $21.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 1745
Format: Cd
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows 2000
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 49328
UPC: 752919493281
EAN: 0752919493281
ASIN: B000Z7G77S
Release Date: March 5, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Customize your hero’s weapons, items and abilities as they grow in power | | • | Personalize your army’s insignias, colors, banners and names | | • | Earn and unlock achievements and medals as you prove your superiority online in 29 NEW multi-player maps | | • | Includes all previous Dawn of War maps for a stunning 114 maps in total | | • | Groundbreaking Hybrid Expansion design allows Soulstorm to be played alone, or combine it with Dawn of War, Winter Assault, and Dark Crusade to create the largest RTS ever |
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Product Description
In the 41st Millennium, you have the power to wage war across entire solar systems. This is a dark, futuristic, fantasy setting where armies of technologically advanced warriors, fighting machines and hordes of implacable aliens wage constant war. Liberate, enslave, or destroy entire worlds as you unleash your army's fury on an interplanetary scale. Take command of two new factions, the Sisters of Battle and the Dark Eldar, and fight with a new resource derived from the souls of the faithful and the fallen. Take to the skies as you gains new air units to rain death from above. Experience unique storylines, control your supply lines and lead any one of nine separate armies to victory.
Windows 2000/XP 2.4 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent 512 MB System RAM (required for 8-player multiplayer games) NVIDIA GeForce 3 or equivalent with 64 MB of Video RAM Sound Blaster X-Fi
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| Customer Reviews: Read 25 more reviews...
 Dawn of War Soulstorm September 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The game is not very good because the campaign is lacking consistancy. During battles for each region of each planet you spend a ton of resourses on ifrastructure. After the battle ALL of your hard won buildings are gone! each time you defend that region you start from scratch. The buildings are just plain gone. It made the campaign inconsistant and unbelievable. In the previous Dark Crusade you keep all of your infrastructure exept that which is built where the invaders starting area is. Thats understandable. Soulstorm is a disapointment in spite of the addition of two new races. They also give bad reasons why the different arms of the Empires militaries have to fight one another.
JPB
 Buggy unsupported mess. September 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The expansion would be excellent but for the fact that it has show-stopper bugs that have yet to be patched six months past release date.
An example of such a show-stopper bug is an infinite resource bug in one of the expansion races. Anyone familiar with an RTS should realize just how critical a bug like this is, but here we are, six months out with no patch.
Buy at your own risk.
 Sweet August 18, 2008
I have to say, I had my doubts about this from what I had read, but I've been playing it, and it rules! Obviously there isn't a huge amount of new stuff here, but the campaign is actually really solid and interesting; the Dark Eldar and Sisters are both really exciting to fight against, at least, and are totally new. I'm not a hardcore RTS strategist and mainly play the game for the atmosphere and polish, and those are both really great here. The visual and thematic elements are great, and this campaign easily equals or even exceeds Dark Crusade's. Too bad Iron Lore is dead :( Hopefully warhammer stays this good!
 A Great Sequal But Bring The Power August 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have loved the Warhammer 40K Dawn of War series. They've brought a futuristic setting in a blood lust Strategy game. Kind of an RTS on crack if you'd ask me.
The gameplay is very cool, lots of gore and interaction. With Campaign and Skirmish modes, you can decide to rule the galaxy or just battle it out with your enemies.
I personally like the Total War games better, because more strategy is supplied in the game. But, Dawn of War has brought alot of fun interactions.
I would only get this if your computer can handle it though. I've been able to play all the other Dawn of War games except this one without serious issues on my computer. Dawn of War: Soulstorm demands at a minimum: Windows 2000/XP; 512MB Ram (for 8-Player multiplayer); 2.0Ghz Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon XP or equivalent processor; 3.5 GB free hard drive space; 8X DVD-ROM drive; 64mb direct x9.o compatible AGP video card with hardware transformation and lighting, DirectX9.0 compatible sound card, 16 bit; and ofcourse Keyboard and Mouse.
I believe the reason i had issues playing this game is because of the dvd rom drive because i dont think it's a dvd rom... or because my Dell Laptop doesn't have such a good processor...
I have a Dell Latitude|D600, it has played Total War: Rome with minimum to no problems, all other DoW games flawlessly, Counter-Strike online on minimum settings with hardly any low fps on good servers, and World of Warcraft with lag spikes here and there. I think it's just because i beginning to go out of date lol.
Plus, laptops aren't exactly the best thing to play games on unless it's actually made for it. And if you want a laptop made for it go to AlienWare, because they are definitely the best for a price. A very not so nice of a price =P... but if you've got the buck, you can get the best.
Anyways, Overall the game was fun on my friends custom desktop and i would recommend it to anyone who likes a good stretegy game to anihilate your enemies in. I hope you enjoy the game as much as i have and believe like me that this is a great sequal to one of the best strategy games ever.
Soul Storm rules July 23, 2008
Okay firstly I want to compare this game to other r.t.s. games, I mean you've got ages of empires, command and conquer, and the blizzard r.t.s. games, you know, Warcraft and Starcraft, but this expansion along with the two previous expansions and the orgional smoke all those. Well I think this expansion caps off the Dawn of War series perfectly. 9 teams, tons of maps, dozens of ways to destroy your enemies, this game is awesome. Goodbye harvesting minerals, lumber, food...vespine gas?...Capture strategic points, relics, and critical locations to get a jump on your enemies. This game breaks so many barriers long set by Westwood and Blizzard it's not funny, design, versitility, heck even the sound bytes from the units are awesome: "do you hear the voices too? I must KILL!" as spoken by the chaos Marines. "If it moves kill it."-Space Marines.
This game takes Starcraft, Warcraft, and Command and Conquer and blends them together, from reinforcing dying squads, to acquiring a special unit when a relic is captured this is the awesome end to the Dawn of War chapter. Anyone who critisizes the water not spashing right when units move through it needs to get a degree and get job designing games, other wise, build an army and blow crap up with the rest of us.
Beginners to this game do not be afraid, buy the complete set and hit up the tutorials, play skirmishes to practice, then hit up the campaigns, you'll have a good time. Check out the roster of voice actors too, you might be surprised who lent their voice to this game. Dawn of War has raised the bar for real time strategy.
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