Inspired by the board and figurine games made popular by Games Workshop, the universe of Warhammer 40,000 is a vast and violent one, rife with strange, alien races, including the Eldar.
Rites of War features a tightly crafted storyline composed of 24 missions and varied victory conditions as you lead the Eldar in their fight for survival. Additional scenarios allow for control of Tyrannid and Imperial armies and a glory point system lets you build and customize your own army, with 8 distinct troop classes ranging from War Machines to Assault Troops to Devastator Squads. A level-based experience system enhances the game's RPG (Role-Playing Game) element, allowing you to upgrade and customize units, enhance warrior skills and employ "psyker" (psychic) abilities.
I remember liking this game when I was a teen. Picked it up now to see if it's just nostalgia talking, and... it wasn't. This is still a very solid hex-based wargame with intuitive mechanics, decent UI and fun unit upgrade feature. The missions are interesting, and even the story is pretty decent. Points off for godawful voice acting during mission...
Absolutely fantastic. A relic from the past I am very happy I get to enjoy for the first time without any issues of it running on todays systems. (And it has achievements!) Getting to play a game with the Aeldari as the protagonists alone is enough to make anyone who loves them check this out, but it has so much more holding it up.
The atmosphere, the...
I have the original running in wine with no issues. This version current (as of this writing) run in Proton/Linux without crashing whenever you try to promote a unit.
On the one hand, this is still a winnable game, but it is really annoying. It begins around mission 5/6, I think as a side effect of the custom mime?
I can't recommend the game in the...
Clunky, old and amazing. If you like oldschool Eldar and 40k then definitely try it.
Even if you prefer factions like Astartes you can swap out most of the Eldar troops for Space Marines later into the campaign.
Brilliant game with excellent vibe and soundtrack
(Though I have a bug where only 1 track plays all the time so I have to reload save on a mission to make it play others too)
