Posted on: April 26, 2025

jiggajones23

Владелец игры

Игр: 14 Отзывов: 1

greatest rts

love this game! works great. saves work and everything.

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Posted on: June 3, 2025

zenokblueraven

Владелец игры

Игр: 116 Отзывов: 1

great game

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

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Posted on: June 8, 2016

Sturleson

Владелец игры

Игр: 297 Отзывов: 11

Sadly Broken

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?

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Edited on: September 28, 2025

Posted on: September 28, 2025

Hughster127

Владелец игры

Игр: 67 Отзывов: 2

Fun at first, then becomes a nightmare..

At first this game is kinda fun, you can collect resources and build units and attack. The enemy is constanly harassing you but you can defend ok. Once you get to the later missions, though... you have missions where you start out with almost no resources, and Water is the only one you need for money. (The green resource is ONLY used to increase the power coming from your generators and nothing else... ) Unfortunely, they put the water far away from your base, AND you have to find it first... very dumb mechanic. All while the enemy starts out with fully fledged bases and units all over the map with resources to gather (usually from 2 or more Water spots). Mission 9 is a clear example (Freedom Gaurd), where I just stopped playing. Fortunately, there's a "cheat" where you can find the file "SHELLCFG.H" in ".../Dark Reign/dark/shell" (Open up in Notepad) and change the number after "#define BTN_MISSION_COEFFICIENT" from 150 to 157... and you can skip these stupid missions. The game doesn't save your mission progress. If you beat Mission 3, as an example, and come back to the game, the game will start you off at Mission 1 again. The only way to get around this is with a save file, and save right before you beat the mission. Dumb. (Or us the cheat mentioned earlier (which is why I use it). All in all, got it on sale, played the missions that were fun, and skipped the bad ones. Final note, every unit in this game is very squishy (they all die in 5 hits or less)... the best bet is to build a bunch of cheap units and swarm the enemy in numbers... especially at first.

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Posted on: October 22, 2025

sexyfrozen

Владелец игры

Игр: 153 Отзывов: 4

Great, but has key problems

I both like and dislike Dark Reign 1 and 2 for different reasons and I'm pretty sure I know the reasons this series never really took off. Firstly, classic RTS style games got a bit oversaturated. Not really heavily so, but the supply was much higher than the demand and still is honestly. Which is damn shame considering how nice it feels to play this game compared to all the modern RTS games that just chase C&C or Starcraft's tail. Problems Actually clicking enemies is quite difficult. You have to sorta click on the enemy or the cell it's moving into or something. I could never really consistently figure it out. I always had to slow the game down to the point it wasn't fun to actually 'play' and was just a bit too slow and this is coming from someone who likes Myth TFL where you can slow the game down there too! Another reason is that the terrain is really unreadable. It's impossible to actually properly tell what parts of the terrain block what. Having a turret on the high ground isn't always an advantage. The complexity would be nice if it was like 2.5d view like Tiberian sun, but since it's not, it's too difficult to easily grasp. But it's also bad because you don't know the range of your turrets when you place them and sometimes they can get blocked by seemingly nothing, but it's just the terrain system. It leads to moments where an infantry will wander into a blind spot of your turret and it won't be able to shoot. As a result, it becomes 'slightly annoying' over and over again. I do quite like the unit designs and voice overs a lot! Also the unit balance is quite good. Surprisingly good in fact. Some of the base game missions aren't that fun, but I did enjoy most of the xpac missions (so far). I do really find the game quite fun and I wish more RTS games tried new things like this, but this game is just four stars. Great, not amazing.

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