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PC PS1

Game

Warhammer: Dark Omen

Released: Mar 31, 1998

Series:

Warhammer

Genres:

Real Time Strategy (RTS) Role-playing (RPG) Squad Management Strategy Tactical

Themes:

Fantasy Horror Medieval Warfare

Perspectives:

Bird view / Isometric

Game Modes:

Multiplayer Single player

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Description from IGDB IGDB

This sequel to Warhammer: Shadow Of The Horned Rat is an overhead role playing game in which you play Morgan Bernhardt. The game consists of a series of battles where you view the battle from overhead via a rotatable view. You go through the game managing your army, deciding whether to fight in optional battles, and advancing through a deep and engrossing storyline via a series of conversations played out by talking portraits.

Wikipedia Description WIKIPEDIA

As with Shadow of the Horned Rat, the game focuses on players taking on a variety of battles that incorporate a mixture of medieval warfare and fantasy elements, while employing the use of units based within the Warhammer Fantasy setting, ranging from infantry, cavalry, ranged, artillery, wizards, and specialised units. Much of the gameplay from its predecessor remains the same, in that players are required to deploy units before a battle, and must win by killing/routing all enemy units, while losing if all their units are killed/routed from the battlefield. Losses made in engagements can be replaced when between battles, while units can be given magic items to use to help them with enemies. In addition, wizards can cast spells when the player has enough magical power available to them, which builds up over time, with the spell's cost determining how much power is used. Compared to its predecessor, Dark Omen features a number of upgrades and improvements to gameplay. The first is the greater incorporation of 3d terrains, which as a direct result, means ranged and artillery units are affected by the "line-of-sight" rule - these units must have a clear visual of a target, before they can engage them. The second is an improved interface system for the player to use with units, including onscreen HUD indicators to help keep track of friendly and enemy units, especially when they're not shown on the player's screen. Unlike Shadow of the Horned Rat, the single-player campaign focuses on a linear path that features choices the player must make - these choices determine what battles the player encounters, what units they can take on into their army, and what items they can pick up - but includes an improved army management system, allowing the player to freely reinforce units that have lost soldiers, improve their armour (if applicable), make note of which units are new and which are temporary, and provide better control over the arrangement of magic items for units. One major inclusion to Dark Omen is a multiplayer mode, in which players can compete online against others, leading armies based upon the factions used in the game - Imperial, Orcish, and Undead - across a variety of battlefields based on the story campaign. Players begin matches by purchasing an army with a predefined amount of resources, whereupon the aim of battles is the same as in single-player. Once a battle is over, the player receives a purse of money, regardless of winning or losing, to help them prepare for their next match.

About Warhammer: Dark Omen

Warhammer: Dark Omen is a Real Time Strategy (RTS), Role-playing (RPG), Squad Management, Strategy, Tactical game released in 1998 developed by Mindscape that offers Multiplayer, Single player gameplay from a bird view / isometric perspective playable on PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation with 15 user ratings averaging 79.7/100. The game explores themes like Fantasy, Horror, Medieval. If you enjoy Warhammer: Dark Omen, you might also like similar games in our database of 45,000+ titles.

Basic Info

Release Date: March 31, 1998

IGDB Rating: 79.7/100 (15)

Rating Count: 15

IGDB ID: 11336

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Additional Information

IGDB Rating: 79.7/100 (15 votes)

Release Date: March 31, 1998

IGDB ID: 11336

Series: Warhammer

Платформы 2

PC

PS1

Genres 5

Real Time Strategy (RTS) Role-playing (RPG) Squad Management Strategy Tactical

Themes 4

Fantasy Horror Medieval Warfare

Player Perspectives 1

Bird view / Isometric

Game Modes 2

Multiplayer Single player

Companies

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Developers

Mindscape

No description available

Publishers

Electronic Arts

No description available

Keywords

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