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Warhammer: Mark of Chaos (PC DVD) | 
| From: Deep Silver Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99 Buy New: £7.00 as of 9/9/2010 05:03 BST details You Save: £12.99 (65%)
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Seller: random264 Rating: 29 reviews Sales Rank: 2769
Platform: Windows XP Genre: fantasy-strategy-games Media: Video Game Age: 11 - 18 years Operating System: Windows XP Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4 Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050053016010
Release Date: November 24, 2006 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Faithful to the Warhammer license, Warhammer: Mark of Chaos puts the focus squarely on the battlefield with a real-time combat system that gives the player unprecedented customization and control of his army. An epic battle rages following a brutal Chaos invasion, where four fully playable armies (Empire, Chaos, Skaven, and High Elves) as well as additional controllable races (Orcs, Dwarfs, Vampires, and Goblins) clash on a massive battlefield. Over a year has passed since the Great War, during which the brutal Chaos armies swept across the Empire lands. Many fierce battles still rage across the Old World. Portions of the defeated Chaos armies have retreated to the distant Northern Wastes, while others have fallen to hostile groups. Among these tribes, new Champions rise up in an effort to reunite the Chaos forces, yet eventually all fail. None can match the power of their fallen leader, Asavar Kul. The united Empire and High Elf forces hunt the Chaos hordes from the Empire territories, still alert because danger lurks around them in the form of smaller enemy warbands that loot the settlements of the border lands. Now, four powerful armies Empire, Chaos, Skaven and High Elves along with other "dogs of war" including Orcs, Dwarfs, Vampires and Goblins, clash amidst breathtaking scenery in an epic battle for land and power. - Master the art of war: Focusing on the armies and battles while de-emphasizing the tedious aspects of base and resource management
- Epic, visceral battles on a massive scale: Epic sense of both scale and detail where big demons and huge beautifully rendered battalions clash with thousands of characters
- Use environments to your advantage: A variety of buildable features and randomized, destructible terrains such as forests, swamps, plains, and tundra change the shape of the battlefield and add a layer of strategy that provides infinite re-playab
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Recommended August 5, 2010 Fraggle (England) OK, this is not the greatest game ever, but it is v good fun nonetheless. It has RPG elements in it, with levelling up and items for the heroes in the game, and it is genuinely entertaining. It has a quick pace if you get stuck in, and it is exciting looking out for new loot when it drops.
This is not as strategic as Total War by half, but that is not necessarily a bad thing - personally, I love Shogun/Medieval/Rome: Total War, but there are people who I know who think that the Total War games are a bit too hard-core and slow, and Empire: Total War is rubbish.
The graphics are still fairly good 3 years on, and any modern machine with a half-decent graphics card will run it easily.
The thing that initially put me off buying was the various magazine reviews that complained about the long load times, and when I first got the game this was indeed a problem. For completeness, I have Windows 7 64-bit. However, when I right click on desktop icon, clicked properties and set it to 'Windows XP compatibility mode' and 'run as administrator', it has completely removed the problem. This issue is therefore fixable, and should not put you off buying.
Not quite tabletop, but a good effort June 18, 2009 Nikki (England) I bought this after a couple of years collecting and playing the tabletop version, so apologies for any bias.
This is generally a very good game. It takes all of the really important WHFB elements and makes a really enjoyable and playable game (without that pesky addage of the dreaded combat resolution all tabletop players loathe).
Even for those who haven't played WHFB I'd recommend this. The storyline explains itself and there's an outline in the manual if you're still sketchy on the background info. The tutorials are great to start you off, and it's not the kind of game you'll finish in a day.
On the downside, the load times are a bit slow, the heroes are overpowered (can take down an army with 2 decent heroes and some healing potions) and the choice of races could have been much wider (even with the expansion pack: where are my beloved wood elves?! They may not fit into this storyline, but that's part of the problem. The storyline is very restrictive. Lizardmen would have been a very interesting play too.)
In general, worth buying definately if you're already into the hobby, but still fun if you're not.
Good but has it's faults. March 18, 2008 M Oliver (UK) 2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is an enjoyable, story driven wargame, it does, however, have it's problems and I'd like to highlight these first.
1. The initially released game is a bit buggy, but this was resolved by downloading the latest +300Mb patch. So apart from the normal moan about publishers releasing games before they are properly polished not a problem.
2. The 2 campaigns are a bit short, not yet tried the multiplayer.
3. There's a lot of loading time between scenarios.
But now to the good things:
1. A comptetent battle simulator, it reminded me of a spruced up 'Dark Omen', which is good. The simulator is not as good as the total war games but very enjoyable.
2. The warhammer setting, you know exactly what you are getting.
3. The campaigns, although short, build up nicely to a crescendo, I especially liked the Empire campaign. I finished the game feeling very good about it.
Overall, a worthy successor to the ancient 'Shadow of the Hornet Rat' and 'Dark Omen' games.
Looking forward to the expansion, 'Battle March', out in May'08
Disapointing January 22, 2008 Alex Albutt (England) 0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I first heard of this game and thought "great! Warhammer, Total War style!" in a White Dwarf magazine.
I waited so long for it to come out and eventually when it did come out, I was quite annoyed.
The campaign system is very restrictive, playing a single player battle took me about a day to work out where it was (this may have just been me being dumb), it is rather laggy, and at the time of it's release I had a dual core 2.2ghz processor, 2gb RAM and an Nvidia GeForce 7600GT and finally the AI is extremely basic in terms of tactics but also linearity. All entrances, exits and "random events" are actually scripted so you can just quit and start again if you fial to do something.
Very dissapointing all round although it did have one redeeming feature: you couldn't play as Dwarves. :P
Straight in the bin November 16, 2007 blackbour 1 out of 6 found this review helpful
Bought it, installed it, played 30 minutes, straight in the bin. Linear arcade lobotomy toejam. Not a patch on warhammer 40k or company of heroes.
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