Warhammer: Mark of Chaos - Gold Edition (Classic)

This totalwarized [i]Shadow or the Horned Rat[/i] reprise is to modern [i]CA[/i]'s [i]Total Warhammer[/i] is what an 80s power metal album cover is to a current-year rendition thereof by a reasonably skilled and non-research-averse deviantartist who was given their first professional assignment. Linear campaign. Limited forces. Mandatory conservative play. Old [i]Total War[/i] unit on unit impact. Duels (poorly implemented but cool). Art that doesn't scream "LOOK, WE ARE SO METAL!! DID YOU SEE HOW METAL WE ARE?! DID YOU GET THAT??" from every pixel. Another RTS that tried go its own way at the zenith of the genre.

Genuinely love it, this was Total War: Warhammer before it was cool. I personally think this still holds up today, there are a few bugs and I don't think the single player skirmish mode works (if it does I can't seem to work out how it does) but it's a fun game all the same, with great stories across all the campaigns, and some lifelike models with good combat.

Worth a play. For nostalgia reasons I prefer Shadow of the horned rat and even dark omen over this but I still enjoyed Mark of Chaos. With the Empire campaign being my favourite followed by Chaos. The graphics are an improvement over the previous two games, music and voice acting does the job well but isn't as memorable as the previous two games. The thing that I found a nice feature over the others was the heroes being able to fight each other and duels. The extra rpg style elements were good, although the campaign stories were close to what you would expect. It ran fine on my modern machine with no messing about and I'm glad that I played it again 20 years later rather than a more modern game

Good game from the past.

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