welcome to war, theres no sun no glory..just death
the story follows blood raven's (an army of space marines) captain davian thule and his trusted advisor (or librarian for you 40k savy folk) as he throws himself hedlong in the battle for a planet. as the story continues u fight harder and hard enemies with bigger and badder technology. the storyline is limited to 1 playable army but the story as amazing as it is isnt the main focus. multiplayer is where this game shines as you can play as whichever of the 4 races you choose. and there color schemes are full customizable (thats right no more generically colored armies!). the color template is true to the 40k tabletop paint list and the setup is so good u can pick your insignia and battle standard.
game play:
the game play for warhammer 40k: dawn of war is a fresh breath of fresh air. it has units broken up into pre-made squads, that u can expand and customize for various roles. and the game doesn't rely on a truck load of resources gathered using precious manual labor. this mean u spend more time raising your army and building defenses that you do worry about where the money for them is coming from. this would be because resource gathering is done by capturing strategic points on the map and defending them.
the four playable armies each have their own unique play style the space marines favor a well rounded player, whereas the eldar rely on ambushes and lightning strikes to win the day. and ork army primarily rely on throwing overwhelming numbers at you, and finally a chaos army uses unrelenting assaults using various forms of deamonic entities and a wide list of armor.
On the whole this game is amazing and it will offer a limitless number of gameplay hours. Miss this game and you miss out on a GEM of a title