The thing about multiplayer however, is that if you can't rush play then the top teir of players can, and will always beat you. A lot of multiplayer, in fact, because at the time the only other game that held my addictions to gaming was Diablo II. The campaign was honestly a bit of a disappointment, but then again I didn't care because I finished the campaign I didn't go back to it, and instead I played multiplayer. There's two resources that all four different races use Requisition and Power which are gained gradually through Strategic/Critical/Relics Points/Locations and Power Generators respectively. Game play is very much like Age of Empires in that you start off with your base and one builder unit and then you go from there. Each of these Races has different buildings, different ways of upgrading their technology, different units, and multiple animations for in combat.

In the game there's four races Space Marines, Eldar, Chaos Space Marines and Orks. While the graphics aren't as awesome as, say, the graphics of a first person shooter, this didn't really bother me after playing Battle Realms and Age of Empires for so long that I thought all real time strategy games were that bad in terms of graphics (I think THQ missed the memo). Age of Empires II had set a standard in real time strategies for me, and Dawn of War surpassed them a bounding ease. Units had their own upgrades, their own abilities, and their own killing moves in combat. Then Dawn of War's game play trailer came out, and I was hooked. There was also another real time strategy called Battle Realms that I enjoyed immensely. As far as real time strategy games go, I've always been a fan of Age of Empires and Age of Empires II.

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