There's a welcome trend in today's PC market to craft RTS games that discard much of the resource collecting that has traditionally bogged down the action - who wants to chop wood or mine gold when there's a war to be fought? Warhammer: Mark of Chaos continues this trend, enabling the player to spend most of his or her time doing what fantasy RTS gamers love most - pitting entire armies of knights, demons, giants and - in this case, at least - rat creatures against one another in mortal combat, the bloodier the better.
Another big deal is the fact that your commander units, the big, high end guys like the winged, armored Demon Prince of Khorne or the Orc warboss, can actually duel one another on the battlefield. Once a duel is triggered, no other units on either side can interfere or interrupt, and a commander's individual skills, talents like "Claw", "Decapitate" and "Confuse", come into play. By the way, we do not recommend dueling against a Demon Prince of Khorne. That may not sound wise now, but you'll see for yourself what good advice this is when Warhammer: Mark of Chaos girds itself for battle late this year.
May 9, 2006
