A colossal war between the Imperium and Freedom Guard is annihilating your world. To save your civilization, you must enter the heart of an empire at war. Command over 35 units with specific orders and deploy suicide bombers, hostage takers, saboteurs and more. Use precisely calculated battlegrounds...
A colossal war between the Imperium and Freedom Guard is annihilating your world. To save your civilization, you must enter the heart of an empire at war. Command over 35 units with specific orders and deploy suicide bombers, hostage takers, saboteurs and more. Use precisely calculated battlegrounds to your strategic advantage and play against a highly responsive and unpredictable AI that detects and adjusts intelligently to your tactics. Vanquish the military powers to alter the destiny of a galaxy.
ATI/AMD compatibility notice: Dark Reign requires graphic card drivers version 13.4 or older.
The pack contains Dark Reign®: The Future of War and its expansion, Dark Reign®:The Rise of the Shadowhand.
Many mods and impressively polished unofficial patches created by a still very active community.
Complex AI mechanic allows you to create and execute unique strategies.
Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
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If you like Starcraft, Warcraft, and Command & Conquer games, then you should try this one out. Well balanced units and controls make this game a fun RTS to play.
As a long time RTS fan, I've been through Starcraft and the Warcraft games, and they've always had their problems. Starcraft mainly shallow - never really a solid story.
Warcraft got left in the dust because they went MMORPG with it.
Command & Conquer has always been the 'RTS King' - never has been a doubt about that. It set the ground for the genre, and placed it on the map and set the tune for RTS. Even though EA killed it.
Not a single game I have played to date, has been as challenging, as balanced, or as fun as Dark Reign.
Still love the game today, still play it. Have yet to beat the campaign...the extreme balance of the game is to such a degree, a single mistake can get you utterly destroyed. The AI challenges the player, and can think fast and react as fast. Sometimes does act a little...stupid, yes.
Maybe a little bias...but even though for as old as it is, it seems to have aged fairly well - all things considered.
The game is still great, and still among the best RTS I have ever played, right there along Red Alert...fighting for the NO1 spot.
Dark Reign works great for me on Windows 11 without any fuss so I assume some fixes were made. This was one of my first RTS games and I really enjoyed it even though I sucked at it as a kid. It's not the most complex or content rich RTS out there but it's good fun while it lasts.
I was worried at first with all the reviews saying it was not loading for them, but I went ahead and got the game anyway for my Windows 11. so far I have had no issues, the game runs just fine for me. a great old throwback to my first win95 RTS game. Loving it!
This Game needs to be REMASTERED! I really love the atmosphere in this Game, its so dark. That, because the Game is called "Dark Reign" haha! I love everything in this Game! Especially the maps and factions. The Game campaign is also good, but what I want in RTS Games is Skirmish Mode with many maps to choose from! I always loved playing Skirmish Mode with AI's! And MORE IMPORTANTLY.. I HAVE NO PROBLEM RUNNING THE GAME IN WINDOWS 10! Yes! You heard me. "NO PROBLEM RUNNING IN WINDOWS 10!" WITH "NO TWEAKS OR COMMUNITY PATCH AT ALL!". I assume GOG have been patching this Game to make it run in modern systems! Thank you very much GOG! I hope GOG will still support this Game in the future!
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