Dark Reign narrowly beat Total Annihilation as the first RTS to incorporate 3D movement and positioning. This increases the strategic advantage of hills and mountains.

Each mission puts you in the role of commander of either the Imperial army or the Freedom fighters in a campaign to undermine and eventually destroy the opposing force.

This game has many unusual features for the RTS genre. AI patterns you to simply give a unit the order "Search and Destroy" and it would drive off towards the enemy's last known location, in search for something to kill. There is also "explore" mode which let your units do all the map exploring for you. A mission/campaign editor is also provided.

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Dark Reign series

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Dark Reign: The Future of War
	Xplosiv DARKREIGN2XPLOS Dark Reign 2 - [by Xplosiv] [windows 95/98/2000/xp]	Windows	$16.33
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User Reviews

A terrible, terrible game	Maury Markowitz (203)	unrated
Good game engine, terrible game.	PCGamer77 (3025)
A great game technically, but lacking in gameplay.	Tomer Gabel (4495)
Don't listen to the naysayers, this is a classic RTS!	Jonathan Hollas (25)
A game that seems cool when you first get it, but becomes boring after a while.	James Kirk (159)
The best, most difficult game I own.	Nick Johnston (4)

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The Press Says

PC Player (Germany)	Oct, 1997		100
Mega Score	Nov, 1997	95 out of 100	95
GameSpot	Oct 02, 1997	9.2 out of 10	92
Game.EXE	Sep, 1997	92 out of 100	92
Svenska PC Gamer	Jul, 1997	91 out of 100	91
Coming Soon Magazine	Dec, 1997	91 out of 100	91
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Nov, 1997	90 out of 100	90
Pelit	Aug, 1997	90 out of 100	90
Game Revolution	Oct, 1997	C+	58

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Trivia

Hidden Text
Hit F1 in the game and then type 'shiftfun' and hit enter.

Dancing Skyfortress
Start the tutorial mission which teaches you how to use the Advanced orders (unit behavior)
There is a Black Monolith hidden east of one of the starting points.
Drive your tank over to it, and sit there for a while.
You will be directed to look to a position on the screen via a message at the top left conner.
Now sit back and watch :) (A similar egg exists on level 13, there is an island on the North West of the map with a Black Monolith, placing a unit there for an extended period of time result in the egg).

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by Zhentarim7 (186) on May 30, 2000.