Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III

pretty good took me a while to get the hang of but in the end, its a great game

Feels very generic, simplified and boring. With DoW1 being a classic RTS game and DoW2 a squad based game, this one one feels like a mix between these two and a MOBA game, but in a worst possible way.

I guess I'll be waiting for DoW1 remaster then.

Not the best game, but it's worth playing. Don't really like alternating from one faction to another on the campaign.

I agree with most of the negative things said about this game but at the end of the day I always found it really fun!

Get it on sale, it's really cool and pretty - just don't expect this to be DoW I or II.

As much as I want to give this game a positive review. I simply can not do that. The story line is too controlled for what the series is. I have played and loved the Dawn of War series. This one doesn't come close to the aspect of the previous 2 versions. If your a RTS fan Id recommend the first one. The second one has less of a base building army style but more of the Squad style. I feel that they kept out more of the open play and more forced play style in this version.

As an imperial fist the only negative there isnt a bulwark squad but otherwise really good story line and progression

No screen ratio option to fix screen cut off, makes it impossible to play on smaller monitors. The Emperor is displeased with this lack of hindsight.

Do not buy anything associated with GW. They are a garbage company that hates the community that made it so popular to begin with. Also This game does not remotely come close to being as good as Dawn of war 1 and 2.

Excellent story, excellent community

I remember trying the demo when it first came out back then and immediately losing interest.
Came back eight years later, wanting to give it another chance.
Played the tutorial, which was the demo back then, and the first three missions of the campaign.
I uninstalled.
Units are too fragile, base building is all the worst parts of CoH, the unit control is also too much like CoH, point capture feels arbitrary. Haven't even played a multiplayer or A.I. skirmish but don't feel like that either.
Why they chose to make me play another faction each mission is beyond me, barely gives me the chance to engage and connect with the characters or immerse myself in the current story. So this way it's just a merry-go-round of attempted "aura farming", what the kids call it these days. Attempting and failing.
Do not purchase this game.

It's okay for what it is, but I feel like if you have been a fan of the franchise, 1 or 2, then this will probably be a let down for you after the first few missions.

There aren't really any mods to improve upon what the developer's neglected.

All-in-all feels hollow.

and I feel sad.

They took one of our most beloved franchises - Dawn of War -, stripped it away from anything that was fun, and created one of the most boring and useless piece of garbage I've ever played. I don't get bored easily but this is quite something, I've started to force myself to play since mission 2.

Just another warcraft/starcraft Skin over Which is Ironic since Blizzard was a rip off from Games workshop

I have over 300 hours in the previous DoW games, this I struggled for just 8 and none of them enjoyable.

Its truly awful. Missions that change objectives, no clear path to take for reinforcement during missions. Its just awful. I'm not even 1/2 way through the first campaign and about to uninstall.
DoW2 I played through with every character.

This game was such a letdown. I loved DoW 1 and DoW 2, although the two were quite different. DoW 3 tried to be even more different but couldn't decide what genre it wanted to be. Heroes are so strong that units become almost irrelevant, which was very dissatisfying. Structures are a pale immitation of those in DoW 1, basically constituting lip service to the idea of base building.

its good, but there aren't a lot of buildings, units, factions, and even 1 faction we can never play as. there are indeed a lot of chapters of the factions, but it still isn't like dawn of war 1

I would have liked for there to be more available races but overall the gameplay is nice and the graphics are smooth.

Its fine if u just wanna do the campaign and do some solo skirmish... anything from that is not fun

The game doesn't quite work... As other reviewers say, it tries to combine both DOTA style heroes with extremely impactful abilities and basebuilding with ressources and upgrading of troops. The result is very micro-heavy and often frustrating. A few seconds and clicks either win you the huge battle or you need to spend 20 minutes rebuilding and catching up. The missions are overall very very gimmicky, there is almost always that one specific hero with that one specific skill that carries you. One way to win (and many to lose).

That being said, why I do still recommend DOW3? Well, it is a Warhammer game and really feels like it! The production value overall is top notch. The graphics, music, sound, voice overs are great IMO and the styles of the three different factions really sucked me in. At the end of the day I did enjoy my time in this game. The story is.... well a WH40k story. Everything is 11/10, but that is what a lot of us like about Warhammer in the first place.

So, all in all, if you are into Warhammer and immersing yourself, I'd say give it a try. If you are looking for a mechanically well-designed strategy game, this isn't it.

Buggy + I wonder how they managed to go back so far from the old games

not even a spiritual successor of DoW 1 or 2. The roadmap and advertisement for this game is the reason for the price. There is the graphics and unit comp of a great game but it lacks weight or gravitas. Every few years I download it, use the mods to make it playable, and then get dissapointed at the cartoonish sounds and unit models. DoWII gave such weight and gravitas to each of the units but this feels like an attempt at making Korean eSports vice a game belonging in the DoW series. Some of the DEVs on this I am convinced were pushed this rather than making a game they were passionate about. EA cancelling Titanfall 3 recently just highlights this type of decision tree. Profits over form folks. Trashware. Get in, get out.

Thanks Devs. I see what you've put together here and I know you were held back and rushed.

i like the game, its 40k rts would be nice to have more factions

l enjoyed this game.

A disappointing end to an otherwise great trilogy.

I play DoW for the campaign. DoW 1 and 2 both had different but excellent campaigns. I replayed each many times. DoW 3 has a very weak campaign, with the missions rotating between factions. What previously would have been 3 separate campaigns was hashed into one, reducing the amount of this product I am able to enjoy. Base building and technology trees are minimal, with no feeling of your army evolving as the campaign progresses. Of course since the narrative is bouncing around you never develop a feeling of "your army".

Even several years after release the game is rife with bugs. Some examples:
- Receiving a cosmetic after a campaign mission means the next time I start the game I get a pop-up that I am unable to dismiss notifying me of the new cosmetic. Need to alt+F4 since I can't get past the notification.
- Had to restart a mission since that particular save was somehow corrupted so the game would repeatedly crash at a certain mission transition point.
- Game may randomly crash during battles.
- Elites will not retain experience during the campaign.
* Not a bug but after loading you can't click the "press any key" button, you have to press a key on the keyboard. Although not a bug it feels like behavior from a time when not everyone had mice.

I really love the 40K universe. I played the miniature game. I read the books. I have many of the games on Steam. I find it difficult to recommend this game unless it's at a steep discount AND you've already played the crap out of DoW 1 and 2.

Thank you for reading. The Emperor Protects.

Really loving this. As is typical with the RTS community, good RTS on dogged on until they lose support. It happened to Iron Harvest, it happened to CoH3, and it happened here.

Base building is not very good, difficult to group troops by type. Annoying story with no skirmish option.

Wish they continued development and gave us more of what was promised and shown to us.

other than that i find the game rather fun

love the change up vs each level.
There should be a DLC of this where you can choose the faction you want to play start to finish..

Only 3 Factions...sad had so much potential. I need necrons or atleast Chaos as a Faction...

this game is good but war hammer 2 has twice as many teams 7 to be exacted if you get retrabution and its been about a decade since this games release so i doubt there's plans for more teams in the future. but yeah if you have ever played halo wars and liked it this game is right up your alley.

Base building is pretty bad, MOBA elements are terrifically bad. Basically pick the good qualities from the previous games and ensure they are not included. The campaign is highly irritating as with each mission you are switching between the playable races despite you are annoyed with them it is mandatory so it feels like a chore and an very long tutorial before the multiplayer / moba experience. Hero units are kind of interesting however this diminishes the individual squads to be no more than cannon fodder which is very much against the lore and the previous game's experience.

2.7 hours on record, taken on discount -not worth, bad camera, stupid AI, ugly color scheme, shit base building
the only thing in common with the famous series is the name
it's too much of an arcade hack and not a game you want to play for days

More often than not, negatives reviews in games such as this are not valid as they are from people that are just creatures of habit and can't let go of older designs or adapt or even give a chance to new designs.

This was the case for DoW:II as well. The amount of people that were "true" DOW Fans that hated that game were much larger in count than say steam reviews allow us to know. And that because a large portion of those sales were outside of steam. My Gold Edition at the time was on CD as well and did not require steam at all. A large portion of those earlier whining reviews were lost. But I remember just fine how much the "true" DOW fanbase hated DOW2....

Apparently the rest of us that had played DOW1 as well and liked DOW2 were either not real fans or idiots...

Be that as it may, there was a large portion of players that gave DOW2 a chance and bothered to learn its mechanics. In my opinion, it was a far superior strategy game. And I grew up on DOW1. Its only drawback was the lack of structure building. For me, melee and antiquity styled combat, themes like Ancient Greece, Rome, Feudal Japan, or the Crusades, lend themselves well to large armies colliding. More modern warfare is much about small troop teams carrying out objectives. And DOW2 was great...

Fast forward now to DOW:III

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Ok, this one is a difficult one for me, on one side Dawn of War is the reason I know and love Warhammer 40k, but to say that this game has problems doesn't fully describe it. The best way I can say it is similar to how people talk about DmC, is a good game, a great game at times, but is not a good Dawn of War game, it seems like it tries to mix the base building of the first games with the more squad centered of the second ones, with varying levels of success. While the base building is good it feels too simple and at times even unnecessary if you have the right mix of elites (Heroes), and in the same point some elites are pretty strong to the point that they can easily butcher an entire army, while other feel too weak or too much specialized to the point they can do one thing very well, but they pretty much suck on others.
The fact that the game isn't that difficult, even while playing at the hardest difficulty and that is too close to a MOBA for some people are points to have in mind too.
Overall, the game is pretty decent and if you give it so time you can actually grow to like it, is not for everyone that's for sure, if you want to buy it I recommend two things:
1. Buy it at a discount, a good one.
2. Look for a guide of how to level the elites fast, otherwise you will be like a month doing the elite mastery achievements.

pretty much a carbon copy of the campaign in dow2 but dow2 had more playable races!
you dont really get much of a chance to play a full battle in campaign with a full and fully upgraded army and there are WAY too many levels with specific champion only maps where u can only use specific elites and dont build bases just collect the troops as u go through the level........zzzzzz
i came here for a propper battle .......and gun fight........like a western! (lmao quoting tom hardy in legend)
with there only being 3 races in the campaign there should be an individual campaign for each race not a campaign where u get to play a mix and match of levels for each race alternately taking in turns!
feel ripped off and should of bought and completed the 1st 2 dow's ......again....on hard.....again at least i would have been able to play all the races there!

For the Emperor

needs the other races and a heretic legion in the campaign making it longer and more fun but this game is legit and elite i advise playing it it is amazing

5/10

I cannot recomend this game until the Imperial Guard is added as a playable faction.

Due to this game I understand how rts games work as I started "READING" either the troops, upgrades, requirements, etc.

Great game-play. I enjoy the battles and the new layout. At times the AI seems to build faster than I can, but this new mod is fun. It would be great if the field of play could be increased to give someone the ability to build an army faster for bigger play and strategy.

Honestly, on discount its not a bad buy if you're invested in the series but I can see why it flopped, veered a little too far off course from the earlier entries, didn't buy it for multiplayer so no thoughts or feeling on how wonky that apparently feels but solid 50 hours ran through on hard for something like £7 isn't bad.

other than graphics, its in every way less than the previous game, sooo NO

DOW 2 and Retribution was better, the sense of progress with your Team is not as good as those, plus the individual customisation of squads is deeply missed. Graphics are a bit better and playing with Chapter Master Angelos is fun. Still could have used some good elements from previous titles.

good

Worst Warhammer 40k game ever made. 7.99 is still too much to play 40k that is not 40k. What are these game studios doing nowadays. Hot garbage.

great game

Dawn of War III has become too complicated to be fun. Base building is not as entertaining as DOW I and hero system gets worse in than DOW II. If anyone wanted an all out war in Warhammer 40K, might as well get the Total War: Warhammer 40K than DOW III. Been playing 7.9 hrs, trying to like it. I don't. Uninstalling.

Beautiful game with a solid story. DOW Soulstorm remains the standard :D

i didnt play this for long but what i did play made me get a refund. Glad i stuck with the first 2 and mods