Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Relic Entertainment based on Games Workshop’s popular tabletop wargame Warhammer 40,000. It was released by THQ on September 20, 2004 in North America. Since its release, three expansion packs have been released: Winter Assault in 2005, Dark Crusade in 2006 and Soulstorm in 2008. The sequel, Dawn of War II was released in February 2009.
Gameplay is initially focused on capturing and holding strategic locations on the battlefield. These control points are captured by infantry squads and provide resources to construct additional units and buildings or unlock certain units in an army’s tech tree. Battles are won either by holding a certain number of control points for a period of time or by destroying all of the opposing armies HQ structures.
Minimum system requirements
CPU: PentiumIII 1.4GHZ or equivalent
RAM: 256MB RAM
Video Card: 32 MB DirectX 9.0b compatible graphics card with Hardware Transform and Lighting
Recommended system requirements
CPU: Pentium4 2.2GHZ or equivalent
RAM: 512MB RAM
Video Card: 64MB DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card