Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War

by Michael Knight and Michael Knight

Burn the Heretic. Kill the Mutant. Purge the Unclean. ?Strategies for controlling all four races in head-to-head and multiplayer modes ?Details of strengths and weaknesses on all units for each of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076154772X
• ISBN13: 9780761547723
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Prima Games
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great game, would have been game of the year several years back

If you like the 3rd person looking down view on your war games... (and I do) this game will provide you alot of entertainment. over all it is just another revamp of the starcraft / war craft era... If you liked them yuou will like this

Like everyother Prima Guide

Okay, if you play computer games, you have more than likely have used a Prima Guide before. The reason why I bought this one was because the original instuctions on Dawn of War did not go too much into detail about the units and not much explanation of the tech tree which in my opinion, is a little trickier than the average RTS. The basics of this guide are a walkthough portion for the single player campaign which I only half-assed used for the reason that I don't like to spoil it too much. After finishing, I would review the guide and maybe see something I didn't see before. There is alot more detail about the units and buildings so you can figure what will be useful for your style of play and what won't. The best thing about the guide is the maps for when you decide to do single or multiplayer skirmishes. It tells you what style of play they are good for and also they are the only source to find out about the details like how many strategic points, critical locations and relics there are. You can't even find that on the game until you are in the mists of playing it. Over all, a good basic guide. But like I said, if you have bought a Prima Official Game Guide before, you should know what to expect.

OK

This is not a bad guide. I wish it had a bit more detail in terms of multi-player and skirmish strategies. A lot of this guide focuses in the campaign. Normally, that would be OK, but since the campaign in this game is so short and basically a no-brainer, I would have appreciated more skirmish and multi-player info. None of that is the author's fault however. It just results in a strategy guide that is OK, but not crucial. Buy it if you really like to play the game and plan to play it a lot. Otherwise, you can probably do without this guide.

Not a bad guide, more like 3.5 stars

First off I should say this book is all black and white. I hadn't bought a guide in a long time and bought the Prima Doom 3 book. I liked the color in that book and thought it would be great for DoW but it has none. Anyway, the content of the book is typical. First it covers the four races in detail, then gives walkthroughs for the campaign missions and finally multiplayer tips. I did not find the walkthroughs necessary at all but I suppose if you get stuck they might be helpful. The portion that covers the four races is useful with tips and a nice overview of all the weapons, buildings, and options. One note though that some of the weapon icons are not quite correct (heavy bolter for a storm bolter, etc) but this isn't a real problem. This section has s few tidbits I didn't pick up in the game's manual. Overall a solid book but nothing exceptional or particularly necessary.