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Presenting another classic from Activision back catalogue - one of the best RTS games of all time, with great gameplay and a solid cult following, Dark Reign, is now available on GOG.com.

[url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/dark_reign_expansion]Dark Reign is a fast-paced and challenging real-time strategy game, set in a grim sci-fi universe. Unlike RTS games that came before it, Dark Reign used 3D terrain, with all the appropriate tactical advantages and disadvantages. Unlike modern RTS games, however, it is very fast and skill-intensive. Your AI-controlled opponent will keep you on your toes at all times, so fortifying your base, building a huge army and zerging it towards the enemy base just won't cut it here.

A very important feature, unique to this title, is assigning behaviors to your own units, like when they should run away or how aggressive they should be. This essentially leaves most of the mundane micro-management to your computer, where it belongs. Think you can handle this game?
Is it just me, or lately screenshots on the gamecard are really badly compressed? I've seen it in PQ serie gamecard too. It doesn't look good.

Great release btw.
Post edited January 25, 2011 by SLP2000
Really good RTS. Cool.

And bodes well for Dark Reign 2 and Battlezone if we are lucky!

Also makes a nice change from all these Adventures and RPGs .....
You get to send in suicide bombers in this game? Heh, guess this wouldn't have gone down too well had it been made more recently...
Did not see this coming. I've heard good things about it.

Would be an insta-buy if my gaming PC hadn't died last night.
Interesting. I haven't really heard about this game yet, but according to the reviews it looks quite amazing. My backlog is rather daunting currently, but I'll definitely be getting this at some point.

Thanks GOG!
I played this back in the day, and while it has an interesting story, I wasn't too keen on the actual gameplay - it was just too "meh" for me...It never held me longer than level 3 or so.

Still, I'll probably pick this up, sometime soon.
I've not heard of this before (I wasn't that much of a gamer back in '97, and it eluded me later), but it certainly looks interesting. Also, it's great to have a new Activision strategy release.
Thanks, GOG!
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snap-d: Really good RTS. Cool.

And bodes well for Dark Reign 2 and Battlezone if we are lucky!

Also makes a nice change from all these Adventures and RPGs .....
Have you tried Dark Reign 2? How does it fare compared to Dark Reign 1?
I seem to recall this was the rts where i could turn my scouts into a bunch of trees. I enjoyed the sequel as derivative as it was, this game had some neat ideas.
Awesome game :D though I never finished the last level. Too hard :D Maybe I'll reinstall it. Any known issues on Windows XP?
thanks for a new update GoG, will be sure to check this out! :)
Dark Reign! I kind of remember the demo. I do remember it being very fun, though the details escape me for some reason. I remember even purchasing the game, and still got the box sitting on my shelves. But then, I also remember being very occupied with another thing called "Total Annihilation" which somehow outshone everything else at the time. I never did get around to playing the full Dark Reign.

Until now.

Purchased and downloading, thanks GOG! I suppose I could still use the old disk, but I'll take the GOG version just to be sure it'll work on Windows 7.
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Skystrider: Dark Reign! I kind of remember the demo.
Bugger, I had the demo but couldn't get it to work on my PC back then. I forget if it was Dark Reign 1 or 2, but it was in the demo disc that came with Computer Gaming World.
Post edited January 25, 2011 by lowyhong
Also I should note that this means more titles on GoG.com in the future from Activision which is great news :)