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It’s a little difficult to call a game like AOE3 dated because so much work has been done on the graphics and interface, but under the hood (with the exception of the home city concept) AOE3 is all AOE2. Is this a bad thing? Maybe. I’m still playing AOE2 online and in skirmish mode (where the computer does relatively well on certain maps), and now in AOE3 I get to play AOE2 with snazzier graphics and a groovy new interface. Perhaps with a couple of patches they can clean up a few of the formation issues and make life even more swell (though I think the ship combat is a total loss). As it stands, it’s a pretty good game. Not a great one, but pretty good.

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In a universe of killing machines the size of skyscrapers, they’re about one link up from the bottom of the food chain. But being ordinary soldiers, the Imperial Guard are as sympathetic as Warhammer gets. Thus they’re pretty solid as a focus for expanding Relic’s 40K strategy game, Dawn of War.

To me the question about Winter Assault isn’t its immediate value. If you still play Dawn of War, you need this. It’s a fresh shot of energy into the play experience. What I really wonder is whether people will take to the Imperial Guard in such a way that, three to six months from now, you’ll continue to find people using them online. I think so. There are enough compelling aspects to the Guard in gameplay that they’re not just a lure for Warhammer 40,000 fanatics.

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