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Dark Reign + Expansion

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.

Release date
January 25, 2011
Platforms
Windows
Developer
Auran
Publisher
Activision
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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.

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.

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★ 8.4/10GOG · 522 ratings
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Most helpful8

★ 2 / 5
Dark Reign is a great game no doubt, a classic and I liked it back in the day more than C&C. I own the original…
★ 5 / 5
If there are two scifi RTS games besides the omnipresent StarCraft each real fan of the genre has to have played, then it's Total Annihilation…
★ 1 / 5
Game doesn't start under my Win 10 environment! It's either asks for CD or a window pops up with some DircetDraw failure message! Please fix…
★ 3 / 5
I used to love this game. I brought it back in the day, and (despite still possessing the CD) brought it again because I never…
★ 1 / 5
do not buy this game from gog. they have not patch it to work with win7 properly. with all the mods you will need to…
★ 5 / 5
I remember playing this classic in 2001 or 2002 and really enjoyed that. I actually Purchased it in the past due to the construction kit…
★ 5 / 5
#EN I already own the game plus the expansion pack on orignal CD. Sadly it was super hard to get to work on windows 7…
★ 4 / 5
DR is a classic 90s RTS with controls that can rival modern RTS. It had features like powering down your buildings way before games like…

Most recent8

★ 2 / 5
cannot save the original campaign. you save a game, then when you load it, it takes you to the expansion campaign screen. therefore unplayable. cannot…
★ 4 / 5
Dark Reign was one of the first RTS games worth playing. Right up there with Starcraft, Red Alert, Total Annihilation, Age of Empires, and Warcraft.
★ 1 / 5
Download the game just wont play no matter what I do. using windows 11
★ 3 / 5
However, I seem to be having an issue with this little file triggering my anti virus which makes the game not load. I have looked…
★ 5 / 5
This is one of the best RTS games of all time and it gets even more fascinating if you read about its history.
★ 4 / 5
The game works on windows 11 fine with default patches but there are a few bugs . The cutcenese get stuttery when you start the…
★ 5 / 5
First RTS I ever played on the old windows 98 and still such an incredible game. Glad I still get to play it, next to…

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