
It’s a rush to watch your four-armed Genestealers hunt a squad of Imperial Guard through a deathworld swamp, or use hivemind powers to deepstrike Gaunts into the middle of an unprepared opponent’s territory, capturing the undeniable thrill of being the bad guy.

The shambling organic tanks called Screamer-Killers moan like whales when given orders, and tiny Hormagaunts leap around like hungry hopping Zerglings. Raveners-snakes with bladed arms and exoskeletal armor-dig tunnels under the battlefield and then burst out, arms scything into enemies. The Tyranid mod adds Genestealers, Hive Tyrants, Carnifexes and various other slimy locust-dinosaur beasts from their codex, and also reskins the interface to make it look appropriately fleshy and gross.įinally being able to play Dawn Of War as these voracious aliens is a blast. One of the most obvious omissions from Dawn Of War were the Tyranids, bio-organic harvesters inspired by the Xenomorphs from the Alien movies who in turn served as the inspiration for StarCraft’s Zerg.
