Mods are the life-blood of any strategy fanbase and are what allow these games to remain popular over long periods of time, like we’ve seen with Star Wars: Empire at War. We’d also get full sequels in the shape of Dawn of War II and Dawn of War III, but the original holds strong above them all.ġ2 years later, this aged strategy game is being kept alive thanks to its modding community. In the years that followed it would get several expansions, the most recent of which being the 2008 stand-alone release called Soulstorm, which built on Dark Crusades’ campaign layer but made it across an entire star system.
It’s certainly the best Warhammer 40K game, although as far as ‘old school’ Relic goes Company of Heroes is considered the better game, in many respects. Released in 2006, the original Dawn of War is probably one of the best RTS games in existence.
