I kinda feel ripped off by this game.

My History with the 40k games is a rather broken one, I would like to mention that I only played the Games, not the tabletop.

The problems started with the first game Dawn of War, that was already a huge rip off and I don’t know why people didn’t complain about it. Seriously I have never seen a campaign that only features one race, out of four mind you, and just 10 missions, thats an insult if you ask me.

Lets take Starcraft for an example here, that game was made back in 1998 and had around 10 Missions for each race and those missions where by far more fun than this game, heck in the last level that stupid daemon got stuck on some Vulcan or something and I build freaking turrets around him that took him out.

But that wasn’t the biggest slap in the face yet, no instead of delivering a good long game with every race having its own unique campaign, they rather split the main game up and advertise their new add-on with the Words “The first add-on in the world that brings a whole new race to a game”, seriously wasn’t that race already ~supposed~ to be in the game at the first place, instead of milking the cow a bit longer and getting us to buy an expansion that should have been included in the game.
Funny enough that people nowadays complain about DLC added to the game later on, when you got such an obvious rip off.

The icing on the cake only was that the game was…bland… it was always the same, build marines, take over some resource points, build dreadnoughts, build terminator squad and nothing could stop you, you just went sweeping once over the map and everything was destroyed, the A.I. was give superior weaponry and still they lost, remember that eldar waravatar just walking its rounds around your base, without ever attacking it on its own, just waiting for you to kick its butt.

Now I was rather furious and not planning to give Warhammer another chance so soon, but I tried “soulstorm” anyway, because I know there can be a good game in this. While I’m aware of the fact that Iron lore did this game and not relic, they still pulled a fast one here.
Even with the huge starmap all “random” planet fights play out the same, at least when attacking, collect your army and hero and swiftly go to the enemy stronghold, who normally has no force to push you back, kill everything inside.
Unless you give the A.I. chance to build up its force your only good points will be the race own planet, but its killed by the fact, that you always play the same mission no matter what race you have, wouldn’t the orcs attack a human settlement different than lets say the eldar?

Well after that was over and I gained a few hours of playtime out of the game I actually was sure to never ever touch a Dawn of War game again..and now you come on here Joe and proclaim the game to be great and what not, knowing your standards I thought that they maybe change the game, maybe they learned from their past mistakes and after buying it off from steam and trusting your “60 hours of gameplay worth!” sentence I was yet again punched in the face.
I’m obviously loving the abuse by now,beacause the 60 hours are NOT there, they pulled the same shit they have done in Soulstorm, the same freaking missions, no matter who you are and if you happen to fight against your same race, well just lets say they are uhm…chaos influenced yes ! or they are uhm..just..not..ahh fuck it all chaos influenced and if you are chaos itself well its a different chaos you see, it all makes sense !

The difficulty is nothing to speak off as well, I played on normal with the tyranids and nothing stood in my way, I think there is no instance where I ever lost a whole squad, well unless its those stupid lickor or that artillery thing, among from that the tyranids are unstoppable as soon as you get your two squads of revars with devourer and you two squads of the war brood with the venom gun add an Hive Leader with an venom gun and you are set for anything that comes your way, you do not even need those super heavy units, actually those units suck and can be swapped for another pack of war brood.

Do I need to mention that the only level I was actually pumped and really enjoyed was the planet that was 20 minutes away from the exterminatus?

So to wrap this up, the game is by far not 60 hours worth, the stand alone seems to search for ages for a suiting map and never finding something, seriously I let it search for a whole of 5 minutes and nothing popped up, the missions are seemingly always the same, after playing the first few missions for every race and making a few others go to level 5 and 6 and finishing once with the tyranids I can assume that every mission will be the same, maybe except the space hulk one. Furthermore one campaign is nowhere near 10 hours as each mission barely is half an hour long in most cases.

In the end playing this game was another punch in my face, for 30 € it was just around 15 € short of a whole new game, I got my preordering of starcraft 2 for around 45€ and it had more missions and longer missions and suprise not every mission could be won with the same strategy repeated over and over again.
So I just have to say that I’m disappointed in Joe, next time please play a little bit more than one or two missions, before you claim that we get “60 Hours worth of gameplay” in the single player campaign.