Looking for Warhammer 40K video games that are good.

[Frankster]

...I got literally nothing to add, you've been briefed on pretty much every 40k game in existence. Apart from a mild desire to educate you on the tau (I don't consider the Tau any more "good" then the imperium, the tau approach is just much more insidious and hidden under a facade of benevolence which makes them look good in comparison to the Imperium which in most cases HAS to be the way it is or it falls apart and humanity will get devoured and tentacle raped by all sorts of galactic horrors and daemonic entities). To put it bluntly, when the Imperium has to sterilize a bunch of people, it's out of fear of daemonic influence. When the tau do it (it's one of the endings in dark crusade), it's for the lulz and because they don't want to have bad PR, so eliminate them over the generations (all the whilst using said humans as cannon fodder units).

Anyways all I can do is add that for dawn of war there's a bunch of amazing mods (try the ultimate apocalypse mod!), also don't listen to people when they tell you to stay away from soulstorm, unless you're playing vanilla multiplayer or are masochistic enough to play the campaign that's in every way inferior to dark crusade, then you'll be getting soulstorm for the mods, of which there are many, including some fabulous revamped sisters of battle.

I'm also hesitant if to recommend you check out the more recent Space Hulk game.. Problem is it's very repetitive and not sure I'd recommend it to anyone else but the most hardcore of fans. Yeah better stick with the dawn of wars I think.

Edit: Also remembered the existence of an iphone 40k game (horus heresy, music is best thing about it), a lane defence game on steam, an xbox live coop shooter and this little gem of a flash game:http://dagobah.net/flash/Space_Marines_vs_Spartans.swf

 

[Lightspeaker]

Actually I don't think that's QUITE every 40k game in existence because I don't see it here and frankly I forgot about it myself until I went on wikipedia just now looking up Chaos Gate and noticed it at the end of a "Warhammer 40k games" list.

Near the start of this year it was announced that there's apparently going to be a 40k space fleet RTS. Battlefleet Gothic: Armada. It was announced in January though there's been absolutely nothing since then.
http://www.battlefleetgothic-armada.com/

 

[Ihateregistering1]

Jumping on the 'Dawn of War' bandwagon, Dark Crusade is easily the best of the bunch and I'd highly recommend it. I think the older Dawn of War games were way better than DOW 2, but DOW 2 is still pretty good. ALso, I haven't tried it, but a lot of people have told me that the "Firestorm on Kronus" mod is phenomenal.

Chaos Gate is also pretty darn good, but it's an older game and I honestly don't know how easy it would be to find a copy. I can't find it on GOG or Steam, so you might have to try E-Bay.

 

[Here Comes Tomorrow]

Tau collective to be fairly interesting, and possibly the group I could stomach actually playing, on a moral standpoint. xD,

First rule of 40k fluff is that there are no good guys . Only morally gray areas. It didn't coin the them GRIMDARK by accident. Unless your morals allow for chemical castration of non-Tau races, slavery of non-Tau races and an attitude of "if you don't submit we will murder all of you". Also there's the strong likelyhood of the Ethereals mond controlling the Tau with pheremones. They are adorably naieve though. They once killed a Bloodthirster and thought it was Khorne.

Games like DoW as has been said. There was a PSP gamen forget the name of but it played like XCOM. Theres also a twin stick shooter called Kill Team which is fun for a few hours.

 

[Lightspeaker]

Retribution is also a very solid game with much better balance, but the biggest problem it faces is it doubles down on the repetition of the other games - all 6 of the campaigns play through the same maps, and the differences aren't enough to bring the entertainment factor back. Still super fun to play through a couple times, so I recommend picking your 2-3 favorite factions and going with that.

I think the problem with Retribution is that they heard all the shouts going "We want to be able to choose our race..." and decided fine, they could do that. But then missed the second part of the sentence which went "...in a campaign on a map like in Dark Crusade".

Retribution is a fine game but it is utterly ABSURD that the campaigns are literally identical single-track slogs through the same story over and over. They really needed to put in a world map type system and the sort of "Total War" stylings that Dark Crusade had to make it work. That would have been an awesomely fun game.

Multiplayer can be fun though.