If you want to know what to expect from the game, you can check out our hands-on here, or, you know, just go play it. It's free. If you like what you see, you can buy the game for 25 percent off until April 20.
If you want to know what to expect from the game, you can check out our hands-on here, or, you know, just go play it. It's free. If you like what you see, you can buy the game for 25 percent off until April 20.
Reader Comments (15)
Posted: Apr 16th 2009 12:17AM Kamaka said
going to give this a try looks pretty good!
Posted: Apr 16th 2009 12:24AM Anticrawl said
Newegg has had it on sale for 39.99 since the week after launch. Free 3 day shipping. Great game. Achievement points will go to your 360 gamertag if you use the Live function.
Posted: Apr 16th 2009 12:36AM R Planteer said
One of the few RTS games worth playing for the single player alone. match making was terrible, and there were horrible bugs at first, but its a very fun game. But, a few things you should know
1. If you buy it in stores, be warned the the game WILL NOT WORK out of the box. The game was shipped incomplete, and you will need to apply at least the first patch. Look around on the box and you will see it says "internet connection required" in small print on the back.
2. This game requires both Steam and Games for Windows Live to run. You cannot legitly run the game without having accounts for both of these and logging into them, not even single player will work. After you get the first patch off of steam, you can set both to offline mode to play offline, but you do need to connect both to the internet at least once. Of course I suppose cracks are always an option for you if your "that type."
That being said, single player is a blast and can be done co op. Scrimmage mode AI is terrible, after a few hours of play even the highest difficulty AI is very little of a challenge. I havent played online, but the forums say its very fun. Single player mode has a sort of RPG element in it in that you level up your squads and equip them with armor and weapons and the like.
1. If you buy it in stores, be warned the the game WILL NOT WORK out of the box. The game was shipped incomplete, and you will need to apply at least the first patch. Look around on the box and you will see it says "internet connection required" in small print on the back.
2. This game requires both Steam and Games for Windows Live to run. You cannot legitly run the game without having accounts for both of these and logging into them, not even single player will work. After you get the first patch off of steam, you can set both to offline mode to play offline, but you do need to connect both to the internet at least once. Of course I suppose cracks are always an option for you if your "that type."
That being said, single player is a blast and can be done co op. Scrimmage mode AI is terrible, after a few hours of play even the highest difficulty AI is very little of a challenge. I havent played online, but the forums say its very fun. Single player mode has a sort of RPG element in it in that you level up your squads and equip them with armor and weapons and the like.
Posted: Apr 16th 2009 12:52AM isOmetriC said
"friendless, cheap, space-marine-lovin' Scrooge McDucks out there"
Justin, I am NOT cheap. take it back.
Justin, I am NOT cheap. take it back.
Posted: Apr 16th 2009 1:02AM TheDarkWayne said
DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA!
Posted: Apr 16th 2009 1:13AM einhanderkiller said
You should probably add a link to where the sale is happening, Joystiq.
http://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/15620/
http://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/15620/
Posted: Apr 16th 2009 2:16AM einhanderkiller said
Oh, nevermind. The picture links to the site.
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Posted: Apr 16th 2009 2:52AM ShadowXOR said
WTF is with this site. It doesn't save my username/password in any browser on any OS. And my avatar won't update no matter how many times I upload it. Fail.
Posted: Apr 16th 2009 6:59AM (Unverified) said
As much as I like Steam and am all for it, I really dislike their practice of getting you to download all the game assets so that if you like it it will require no further download once you buy it. It's a bloody demo, all I want to play is the demo level. I do not want to download the full 4gb of the game, especially if I don't intend on buying it (I just want to check it out).
Posted: Apr 16th 2009 8:17AM Capgun said
This is possibly the longest demo I've ever played. Well, I did go out of my way to kill as many orks and later eldar as possible, but still. I almost thought I accidently bought the whole game.
Posted: Apr 16th 2009 8:35AM ScottG13 said
This is an awesome game and totally sucked me in for a couple of weeks. I LOVE this kind of RTS small squad management and would buy an expansion at the drop of a hat. If you've got the hardware to run it, its one of the best things I've played exclusive to PC in YEARS.
Posted: Apr 16th 2009 11:01AM Lennoko said
Bought it day one. On max settings, it looks stunning. Try the demo out you wont regret it
Posted: Apr 16th 2009 1:12PM dogmaticatheist said
I can finally get the achievements for finishing the campaign!
