Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition is a real-time strategy collection set in the 41st millennium, where alien races fight humanity for galactic domination. It includes Dawn of War and its expansions Winter Assault, Dark Crusade and Soulstorm. You command armies in battle, build strategies around each race’s abilities and technologies, and customize your forces.

The original campaign

In Dawn of War’s story-driven single-player campaign, you command the Blood Ravens in a tale of treason and conspiracy as they serve the Emperor and defend humanity. The game features four playable races: Space Marines, Orks, Chaos and Eldar, each with distinct abilities, weapons and tech trees. An army-customization tool lets you choose insignias, banners, squad colors and names.

Combat uses cover, squads and morale as tactical systems. Battles feature melee and ranged fighting, unit animations, scaled terrain, vehicle physics and dynamic lighting.

Winter Assault

Winter Assault adds a campaign with two sides. In the Order Campaign, you lead the Eldar and Imperial Guard in their struggle to protect the Imperium of Man; in the Disorder Campaign, you play as the Orks and Chaos Space Marines and seek to crush resistance. The expansion also adds a new tech tree, new animations, winter battlefields, enhanced urban terrain and interactive objects and structures.

The Imperial Guard brings heavy armor, new troop units, weaponry and abilities, along with defensive and ranged tactics that use overwhelming numbers. Multiplayer adds 20 maps, observer mode, arranged team play and improved matchmaking. A skirmish option lets you practice against computer-controlled opponents on multiplayer maps.

The campaign on Kronus

Dark Crusade introduces the Tau and Necron as playable races. Its non-linear single-player campaign takes place on the planet Kronus, where you can lead any of seven races and experience a storyline from each race’s perspective. A map-spanning campaign lets you conquer the planet in your chosen way, while hero customization offers weapons, items and abilities to develop as the hero grows in power and influence. You can also personalize your army with insignias, squad colors, banners and names.

The Necron menace awakens beneath Kronus’s central desert, in tunnels and funeral chambers buried under sand and rock. Dark Crusade also adds 12 multiplayer maps for battles of up to eight players.

Battles across the star system

Soulstorm adds the Sisters of Battle and Dark Eldar, bringing the total number of playable armies to nine. It expands the campaign-style meta-game introduced in Dark Crusade to an interplanetary scale, with battles across the star system.

Multiplayer

The games feature multiplayer battles for two to eight players. Dark Crusade includes 12 new maps for up to eight players, while Winter Assault adds 20 maps and features for observing matches and arranging teams.