4 stars (Adds a bunch of new content, but not a lot of campaign.) - The Winter Assault expansion pack for Dawn of War is a great expansion to a game that was a standout real time strategy game last year. The main complaint about the original Dawn of War, that the single player campaign only let you play Space Marines, has been answered with this expansion. The focus of the story is taken off the Space Marines and moved squarely on to the shoulders of the new faction the Imperial Guard. While the other factions in the game receive new units and upgrades the Imperial Guard is new altogether for Winter Assault and they provide a very different style of play. The new campaign itself is divided into two parts. In one part you start play as the Imperial Guard and switch off to play as the Eldar. In the other part you start as Chaos and switch off to play as Orks. The timelines remain the same in both parts, but the story advances from a different perspective. This is unlike games such as Warcraft III or Starcraft where the plot advances as you play each faction. The cheat here is that you end up playing the same two maps towards the end for all the different races. The second to the last mission in each part forces you to make a choice between one of the two races you have been following up till now as to which one you will take to the end (ie you played Chaos and Orks, you choose to take one of them to the final mission, same if you played the Eldar and Imperial Guard side). The last two missions are always played on the same maps for all the races, though the goals are different for the most part. So, while you do get to play as all the different races (excluding the Space Marines, which were covered thoroughly in the first game) the differences in some ways are minimal. While this could have dragged the game down it really doesn't, but it does make the single player play time a big shorter as the only missions that you get to play differently for each of t... THQ :: warhammer :: 40-000 :: dawn :: of :: war :: winter :: assault :: expansion :: pack :: thq :: games :: kids :: warhammer40-000dawnofwarwinterassaultexpansionpack 20 september :: 2 :: Warhammer 40-000 Dawn of War Winter Assault Expansion PAck
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