One new unit for each of the four established races, two six-mission campaigns (same story played out by the two sides), and one new race, the Imperial Guard.īut to reduce Winter Assault to a feature list is to do it a great disservice, because while the campaigns do add more of the same, albeit across a snow-covered landscape, by their very appearance the Imperial Guard almost change the strategic make-up the game. With Winter Assault, developer Relic has followed the add-on formula to the letter.
We'd prefer to bestow that honour on Rome, but DOW was (and is) a cracking game nonetheless full of visceral excitement, frenetic action and steeped in all the iconic imagery that the 40K universe has been hoarding for the last 20 years. It's Argued By many that Dawn Of War was the finest RTS of 2004.
