Comments on: Name That Game 54!

By: bobby

bobby — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:02:14 +0000

K, Dark Reign did indeed have 3D terrain, but to the avergae player it wasn’t very noticeable as visually the only clue was some shading differences on the tiles, contrary to TA’s much more striking rendered terrain.

By: K

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:05:47 +0000

Dark Reign still is the RTS I have the fondest memories of. You could tell your units how to behave, rather than merely telling them where to go and who to kill. Very cool feature. The hostage taker, well… it was just fun to use the opponents troops against him/her.

I’m pretty sure though that Dark Reign did _not_ have 3D terrain. I think you might be mistaking it for Dark Reign _2_ which did, indeed, feature 3D terrain and vehicles. That game, however, not so fun… precisely because of its bad 3D.

By: Viridian

Viridian — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:30:55 +0000

Bartek: You are correct!

GB: Yeah, this game also had some interface niceties that other RTS games didn’t get for a long time (except for Total Annihilation, as any TA fan will tell you).

By: GBGames

GBGames — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:50:09 +0000

Wow, that sounds harsh! In Original War it was apes being strapped inside of vehicles!

And judging from the Wikipedia description of the game play, this is the exact game a friend of mine told me about when he mentioned this cool ability to tell a unit to harass the enemy! Imagine if Starcraft vultures could be told to harass without you micromanaging!

He never mentioned the Hostage Taker, though.

By: Bartek

Bartek — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:28:42 +0000

Dark Reign: The Future of War developed by Auran.