Dark Reign + Expansion

i had this game when I was a wee lad, and it's just as good as I remember it

I may have gotten this for free as a sale bonus, but I still feel like I want my money back. GoG is still great, but don't bother with this/these games. I admit, I didn't go far in the campaigns, but that is because of how messed up the game is. Now, I can deal with minor resolution issues or even lagg. Unfortunately there are no minor issues to report, just: ~This game didn't load up with rainbow screen messed up graphics every single time, but at least more than half the times. ~You cannot affect game speed, which is FAR too fast, especially since troops do not automatically retaliate against enemies attacking them.(I tried repeatedly stationing numbers of different types of units in the enemy base, they would attack buildings and let themselves be shot to death). This makes harvesting/building a bit faster but will destroy you in battle. ~The tutorial was an odd mix of insulting and impossible to hear. Literally, looping constantly calling me a dumbass for not doing the objective he just demanded-which at least told me what to do, unlike the extremely loud music and quieter objective voices which are for some reason BOTH controlled by the music volume slider, I could only hear blaring soundtrack and some background talking before(or quieter music with meaningless mumbling). Not Fun. But it's just a simple RTS setup anyway, tutorial barely seems required so this isn't a killing loss. ~The first time I quit this game from frustration(hadn't tried running expansion yet) it somehow killed my taskbar+start menu, fucking up my windows session completely and forcing me to kill the power and restart. Never had that happen before.(today) The graphics problem wasn't every single time(at least with base game) so that isn't enough to stop me, and the hardly intelligible tutorial at least gave enough freedom(whilst insulting your intelligence) to let you see that it's just a basic RTS setup. If graphics ran properly I'd give 1.5 stars. If the speed issue was fixed: 2.5?

That's pretty much it, really. Dark reign is a interesting sci-fi RTS with a really surprising deep lore ( heavily inspired by Dune or the Foundation) and some mechanics that, at the time, were even rare or experimental, like the different effects of various terrains or their altitude. Unfortunately, compared to others of the same genre of its time and beyond, I found the game pretty weak and with some huge issue about pathfinding, balanced units and some mission are a little too tough to be even considered fun at all. On top of that, the game put you 80% of the time in missions where is a sort of stalling between you and the adversary where there's a constant spawning of units, no strategies involved, which is a shame since the game was set to have some ''unique'' (at the time) features as mentioned above. So, should you buy it? mmmm yes but on discount. PS I've come to understand that there no music in this game, just sounds from units and background, so be warned.

the newer computers make the game move faster, the graphics look better, and the AI is relentless.

love the game thanks for bringing this back to me!!! me and my son play everyday it helps with his autism!!! great paid 11 dollars for the best game in the worl works great