Its hard to tell what to say about this game. But I can say, that it might bore you to hell!

User Rating: 5 | Warhammer: Mark of Chaos PC
Well, I'm the type of person who likes the Warhammer world, the game (tabletop and PC games) and the idea of the whole thing. And what fascinated me about Dawn of War was clearly 2 things: The games pure simplicity and the brutality. I love when I can watch my soldiers brutaly sawing down the enemy with their chainsaws. It really gave the Dawn of War series the "Kick". But when you compare it to MoC, you REALLY REALLY wil get irritated when first starting the game. The first thing I missed when looking on the main menu in MoC was the "Skirmish" mode, because I wanted to try out the game first before I begin the campain. But I didn't find it. It was later when I read in the manual I found out that you have to select Multiplayer to start a game against the CPU, but the thing dissapointing me with that feature was that you only had 3 maps to choose between in a normal battle! Okay, so because I didn't find the Skirmish mode the first time, I searched for the Tuturial instead. But in the tuturial, you only got to know the basics, that will say camera options, how to move your army and so on, nothing really special to learn about how to win a battle in that game, no help, no hints, nothing!

Okay, so I thought I might learn the game by playing the campain. I was wrong again! It started with a fight from the very beginning! And whats more, I didn't get any hints how to move my army, how to best act on the battlefield and so on! So I ended up loosing the first mission in the campain! The 2nd time i tried, I won with getting 1 of my 2 Heroes killed. So when having cleared the 1st mission, I thought my Hero would be ressurected again. And again, I was wrong...
I HAD TO FREAKING PAY FOR RESSURECTING MY PRECIOUS HERO!!! And I had to buy new units too, beside the fact of being forced to refresh the killed ones for a large amount of money. Whats really really irritating and frustrating with this game is the fact of not being able to build buildings to create new units. You just have to collect gold on the battlefield hidden at the outskirts of the map and then buying new units when you cleared the mission.

So I ditched the game. Then after playing the whole Dawn of War campain again I decided to continue with MoC. I thought, I may just be a matter of getting used to the new style of fighting. But I was wrong again. After ditching and then continuing the game for about 3 times, I finally cleared the 2nd chapter. But every time the game really bores me. There's nothing in the game that would make you wanna continue the campain, no mouthdropping story, no awesome ending films like in WC3 ( the graphic is good, but the characters still look kinda crappy while staring in the air, not even looking at the other person or moving towards them or something.) and the battle animations are of the worst kind I've ever seen in any other game! The "of the war bored looking" units just swing their weapons slowly in the air and the flowing blood splashes so slow, you don't really believe that would happen in real. But in the end, you dont want to fight anymore because you are afraid of loosing more of your precious newly bought and upgraded units. Really, I wasted all my money on my soldiers who reached level 3 and were upgraded with the best weapons, amour and stuff I could offer. And in the end they died on the battlefield and I invested my money in them in vain.

So instead of being able to unleash brutal, bloodstreaming, and insane fights to the death on the warraged battlefield, you will just hold all of your army backwards and wait for the enemy so you can snipe them down with your cannons. THAT ISN'T WHAT WARHAMMER IS MEANT TO BE!!! Especially not Warahammer fantasy, and in any case not a game called "The Mark of Chaos", refering to to dark and evil Chaos hounting the Warhammer world. You won't feel anything like when you were playing Dawn of War. You won't feel anything like you did when you watched the awesome trailers and teasers months before the game was released. The only things you will feel or think may be "Damn, I lost halve of my army again, and for what? For nothing!"

One more example is the Skirmish mode I talked about before. After clearing some missions in the campain, I thought it might be time for playing some Multiplayer games against the CPU. I started with having him on easy. I took the mighty Chaos Warrior army against the small Skaven rats. I lost. So I halved his army and fought again. I lost again. And so I continued with several other races. And I lost all the time.
I began becoming frustrated because I couldn't figure out how to win in this game. And because I didn't find any hints or help anywhere in the game, in the options, main menu, campain or tuturial OR EVEN IN THE FREAKING READ ME-FILE, I decided for the first time in my life to read the manual.

Yeah, really! I had no chance to read to manual to get some help, but I only found some few hints how to act on the battlefield, but it didn't help me to understand this game fully.

Summary: You really need to have huge intelligence, the will to learn unnessecary complicated rules, knowlengde of real war scenes (really!) and the patience play the game right to the end to think that this game is fun! It isn't a bad game, but I can't recommend it to other people. It really is a dissapointment.