I enjoyed it for the first few missions, but then it got a little boring. Perhaps if there was a bit more interactivity or a better presented story, it would be more interesting.
Dark Omen's 3D graphics certainly look cool and there are some nice ideas thrown in throughout, but there's something about it that just doesn't seem right. It's not particularly challenging and as you fight your way through the Orc-infested levels you soon find yourself aimlessly overpowering the enemy with hundreds of your troops.
It's a nice looking game, but ultimately a bit boring. Don't expect too much of a thrill. Dark Omen is a real-time 3D-battle game based on Warhammer, the world's best known fantasy battle system, by Games Workshop. The battles are depicted in a true real-time 3D environment with freedom to move, rotate and zoom the viewpoint as desired.
Command regiments of cavalry, infantry and archers as well as wizards, war machines and huge monsters challenge you in your role as a mercenary army captain, tasked with wiping the hordes of darkness from the face of the map. Dark Omen casts you in the role of Commander Morgan Bernhardt, leader of Grudgebringer mercenary army. Your army begins the campaign with one of the following regiments: Infantry, Cavalry, Crossbows and Cannon.
As the campaign progresses you will get the chance to hire new regiments and buy reinforcements. You ride with the cavalry regiment during the campaign and if you die the campaign will end in defeat. Skirmishes against the enemy take place on the battlefield. You will choose which regiments to take with you into battle and which ones to hold in reserve. You will issue commands to the regiments before and during each battle and when you complete a mission, your surviving regiments will be rewarded with experience and gold.
When you are not on the battlefield, you will be at camp making decisions about what to spend your gold on. As the campaign matures, your army will grow in numbers and in experience, the latter making your troops better fighters. The more experience they accrue, the better they will become. The amount of experience they gain depends on how many enemy troops they defeat and how tough they were, the tougher the enemy, the more gold your troops will earn.
The action can, and does, get fast and furious in this primarily mouse-controlled game. Using the keyboard, you change your view of the battlefield by zooming in and out or rotating the field underneath you. Each battle begins with troop deployment.
Surveying the battlefield, you must choose how to best deploy your troops to accomplish your mission. Do you put your cannon on the top of the hill or at the end of the canyon? Do you lead with your cavalry or attempt to lure the enemy into the crossfire of your archers? During the battle you attempt to outflank your opponent and counter pushes into your lines, laying down cover fire with cannon and mages while protecting them from close combat with cleverly placed infantry and quick maneuvers from your cavalry.
Audio and video clips of the units give you information about who is charging, when new enemy units are spotted, and who just died. Banners above each of the units keep you informed of the type of units in the battle. After each battle, audio and video clips update you on the story line. It is also time to purchase reinforcements and increase the armor of your units, time to prepare for the next battle. Will it be green skins or undead?
Who knows, but you need to prepare for the worst. One thing to note that really impressed me was the way Electronic Arts incorporated line-of-sight into an overhead game.
The entire battlefield can be viewed from overhead, but only the enemy units visible to your units can be seen. In the same manner, the main control panel has a status icon to show whether or not your units are hidden as well. This does well to stress the strategy of unit placement even before the battle begins.
For multiplayer games yes, I said multiplayer , Electronic Arts has allowed for two players to design their own armies and meet on the battlefield. This at first seemed very limited to me, only fighting one live opponent, but after playing a few rounds I saw how wrong I was.
The maps that are available are just not large enough for more than two armies at a time. This is one place that Electronic Arts can improve upon in a next version; however, it does not take much away from the game as it stands. Although a 3D accelerator card is not required, this reviewer would definitely require it as part of the Dark Omen experience.
The game is playable without an accelerator and the animation and detail will impress you. However, with an accelerator the smoother scrolling and increased zooming range will make the game much easier to play.
The accelerated graphics and animation will leave your jaw on the floor. When you zoom in on the individual battles you can actually see each unit and their weapons. There is one distracting thing to the animation, it seems that to make the characters more real during the video clips in between battles, the characters continually rock forward as if to exaggerate a point.
After a short time this becomes fairly distracting, although the wonderful textures and detail outweigh any of the distractions during gameplay.
Audio feedback to your commands is always a benefit and Dark Omen incorporates these into its engine. Along with the clear speech and the audio cues for new enemies spotted, unit retreats, deaths, and much more, your units give audio answers to movement orders and attack orders. Within the realm of audio, Dark Omen had me disbelieving one feature specifically: directional sound.
What do I mean by directional sound? Well, to put it simply, when there is a battle off the right edge of the visible screen, the battle sounds seem to come from your right. The first time I realized this was the case, I shook my head and dismissed it as my imagination.
Then I ran a few tests and found it to be true. This above all the audio tricks stands out as very impressive. Or as Darth Vader himself would say: "Impressive, most impressive.
Electronic Arts has done well in documenting the game. They even included some documentation on the meaning of your troops' comments.
Tips and strategy hints help to flesh out the manual. The only thing I found lacking was a short narrative on the background story. Personally, I enjoy a game that has a great deal of background story surrounding it. I know that Warhammer has a great deal of history; however, EA seems to assume that everyone purchasing this game either already knows this background or is not interested.
In a genre that is full of heroes and goats, Electronic Arts rises above most of the competition with Dark Omen. If you enjoy a rich story and the overhead action strategy genre, this is a definite must for your collection. Look forward to hours of enjoyment and watch your back, the greenskins and undead are around every corner. Browse games Game Portals. Warhammer: Dark Omen. Install Game. Click the "Install Game" button to initiate the file download and get compact download launcher.
Locate the executable file in your local folder and begin the launcher to install your desired game. View all 18 Warhammer: Dark Omen Screenshots. Game review Downloads Screenshots Download Warhammer: Dark Omen. Overall rating: 8. ProTips: Keep your platoons close to one another because there's strength in numbers. Be sure to buy all the weapons and armor you can, and restock your armies after each battle early in the game.
You'll earn plenty of gold to replenish your supply and have fewer casualties. Whenever possible In the game, Hank the enemy from both sides. Divide and conquer is the rule! The game is also pretty linear. The small strategic elements that the game offers off the battlefield are definitely nice touches - it's fun to decide what armor to purchase and who gets to carry the newest magic sword, and it's interesting that you sometimes are allowed to make a decision like whether to stay and face the more immediate peril or to move on to the greater objective given to you by your employer.
Even so, though, you will sometimes find yourself fighting the same battles three or four times in a row. The first time your wizard might be slain by a lucky shot from enemy artillery restart , and the second time you might accidentally place your cannon shallow arc behind your cavalry instead of the mortar high arc and obliterate about gold pieces in the first barrage.
I'd apologize for thinking of men in terms of money, but hey, I'm a mercenary and your average soldier of fortune makes more than minimum wage. Then there's the somewhat tricky issue of the multiplayer mode. The multiplayer implementation of Dark Omen is pretty clean and solid, as far as I can tell.
You can choose to battle any other player with a completely configurable army of humans, greenskins, or undead. I have to admit that it's really fun - the only problem is that I'm spoiled by the fantastic multiplayer gameplay of titles like Myth , which is so amazingly flexible that you can even play each battle of the "single-player" campaign co-operatively with any number of human players up to sixteen. Dark Omen is fun against another player, but it's a bit of a novelty since you can only play with one other person and since there are no configurable multiplayer game objectives like "King of the Hill" or "Steal the Bacon".
It's strictly a "To the death! Since multiplayer options are a bit limited and the game doesn't feature a scenario editor, the bulk of the gameplay lies in the lengthy single-player campaign. Despite a few shortcomings, I find that Dark Omen has managed to re-capture the elusive "fun factor" that I felt was missing in Shadow of the Horned Rat.
The combination of a re-vamped and streamlined interface with a powerful and smooth graphics engine makes Dark Omen a joy to play. If you enjoy the fantasy setting, don't mind real-time combat and are looking for a meaty single-player tactical challenge, Dark Omen is the game for you. With a few expanded multiplayer options, configurable difficulty settings, and perhaps a scenario editor, the next Warhammer game just may be perfect enough to convince even the most die-hard Warhammer fan to trade in his or her attic for a virtual battlefield every now and then.
Screenshots from MobyGames. C-Goody -1 point. It will never be available on a legitimate abandonware or freeware site as long as that remains to be the case. KingLich 0 point. Fantacap 1 point. Hard to install but worth it. Unzip the. BIN and. CUE files. Select Setup not autorun and set compatibility to Windows 95, x resolution and run as administrator. Dido 2 points. Gravel78 0 point. Mike 1 point.
Crusoe 6 points. U must use an old CD burn version or try more than one until u got your game data correctly burned. I have used PowerISO. A great game , hard to play DecayWolf 0 point. Is this a demo? Does it require emulator? Just started the download, guess I'll figure it out. Downloads and unzips to. Please help. Strobosaur 2 points.
I think the demo of this game and the demo of the first GTA are still the two games i have put the most hours into :D And since i never could afford both the game and a computer that could handle it until it had long since been buried by time and dust, im REALLY looking forward to replaying it! My memory anyway is that this is actually the best Warhammer game adaptation ever done, together with Dawn of War II Dark, violent, mercilessly hard and unforgiving Well written Slow and brutal like good RTS-games should be like and sometimes were before Blizzard started pissing upstream Just hope i'll get it to run this time, but things sound promising!
Nero 3 points. The audio starts but nothing else happens. I tried all the compatibility modes. Does anybody have a fix for this issue? ArmouredLemming -1 point. At no point is this game 3rd Person, yah daft bugger s , the description is a load of old guff! Lenny-D 1 point. Hex 0 point Windows version. Yeah this one got me into gaming, it's like the first date It will always have a special place in my heart. Cokehead 2 points Windows version. And it shall come to pass that the moons are united in darkness and the dead shall walk the earht once more I mean, whats not to like.
Lord Yazoo 0 point Windows version. I still have my original ps1 copy of this game , still one of the best games I ever played. Polat 0 point Windows version. Haborym 1 point Windows version. Share your gamer memories, help others to run the game or comment anything you'd like. If you have trouble to run Warhammer: Dark Omen Windows , read the abandonware guide first! We may have multiple downloads for few games when different versions are available.
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