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<p>While <a href="http://www.markofchaos.com/" target="_blank" title="MoC">Warhammer: Mark of Chaos</a> isn't out just yet, the reviews are starting to trickle in. <a href="http://www.gamesradar.com/us/pc/game/reviews/article.jsp?articleId=2006110917939787077§ionId=1000&pageId=20061109174812715080" target="_blank" title="GR">Games Radar</a> gave it an 8/10, praising the solid RTS gameplay and RPGish hero leveling up. It wasn't all roses though:</p><blockquote><p>All that sounds like nirvana for a Warhammer fan, right? Well, it pretty much is. But the developers drop the ball in one key area by not providing enough interesting game options. The two campaigns, told from the point-of-view of the Empire and the Horde, are too linear and feature many routine missions that you can whip through in minutes. For every awesome castle siege, there seem to be a half-dozen dreary expeditions to kill everyone on a map or defend a location.</p><p>Even worse, there is no single-player skirmish out of the box. While there is a wide selection of online and LAN multiplayer skirmish maps where you can fill in human slots with AI opponents, you can't directly have at it in one-off solo matches against the computer. This is a shame, because the game has great skirmish features like the ability to build and paint custom armies from three factions within each race. </p></blockquote><p>Not having singleplayer skirmishes in an RTS automatically drops my interest level by 79%. If you're still interested, IGN has a <a href="http://pc.ign.com/articles/745/745192p1.html" target="_blank" title="IGN">review</a> (8.0) and a <a href="http://media.pc.ign.com/media/773/773711/vids_1.html" target="_blank" title="IGN video review">video review</a>, which I guess is the same thing but with fancy moving pictures.</p><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.tacticularcancer.com/gallery.php?dir=Mark%20of%20Chaos&file=MoC29.jpg"><img src="http://www.tacticularcancer.com/screenshots/Mark%20of%20Chaos/thumbs/MoC29_thumb.jpg" alt=" " width="200" height="160" /></a>
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<p>While <a href="http://www.markofchaos.com/" target="_blank" title="MoC">Warhammer: Mark of Chaos</a> isn't out just yet, the reviews are starting to trickle in. <a href="http://www.gamesradar.com/us/pc/game/reviews/article.jsp?articleId=2006110917939787077§ionId=1000&pageId=20061109174812715080" target="_blank" title="GR">Games Radar</a> gave it an 8/10, praising the solid RTS gameplay and RPGish hero leveling up. It wasn't all roses though:</p><blockquote><p>All that sounds like nirvana for a Warhammer fan, right? Well, it pretty much is. But the developers drop the ball in one key area by not providing enough interesting game options. The two campaigns, told from the point-of-view of the Empire and the Horde, are too linear and feature many routine missions that you can whip through in minutes. For every awesome castle siege, there seem to be a half-dozen dreary expeditions to kill everyone on a map or defend a location.</p><p>Even worse, there is no single-player skirmish out of the box. While there is a wide selection of online and LAN multiplayer skirmish maps where you can fill in human slots with AI opponents, you can't directly have at it in one-off solo matches against the computer. This is a shame, because the game has great skirmish features like the ability to build and paint custom armies from three factions within each race. </p></blockquote><p>Not having singleplayer skirmishes in an RTS automatically drops my interest level by 79%. If you're still interested, IGN has a <a href="http://pc.ign.com/articles/745/745192p1.html" target="_blank" title="IGN">review</a> (8.0) and a <a href="http://media.pc.ign.com/media/773/773711/vids_1.html" target="_blank" title="IGN video review">video review</a>, which I guess is the same thing but with fancy moving pictures.</p><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.tacticularcancer.com/gallery.php?dir=Mark%20of%20Chaos&file=MoC29.jpg"><img src="http://www.tacticularcancer.com/screenshots/Mark%20of%20Chaos/thumbs/MoC29_thumb.jpg" alt=" " width="200" height="160" /></a>
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