Warhammer: Dark Omen

Warhammer: Dark Omen (1998)

by Mindscape, Electronic Arts
Genres:Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Real Time Strategy (RTS), Tactical
Themes:Fantasy, Horror, Warfare
Game modes:Single player, Multiplayer
Story: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.Show more
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user avatar@Miami_Villeuser avatar@Miami_Ville
January 29, 2025
My introductory game to the Warhammer World. The game is quite unique even with today's releases, as its campaign is made of scenarios—with a lethal finality on the loss of units.
user avatar@2stoned4goguser avatar@2stoned4gog
January 29, 2025
Best Merc Game ever! Fantastic Setting within the Warhammer-Universe, timeless Mechanics and until today not matched by any other Game, please bring it back, it deserves to be in your Hall of Fame!
user avatar@bolognaususer avatar@bolognaus
January 29, 2025
Warhammer Dark Omen was a my first strategic game to play in my first pc 1998. The only mode to finish that game was to use cheat.....i still remember the words! Amazing
user avatar@zodgrod40kuser avatar@zodgrod40k
January 30, 2025
I love the campaign of this game. The battles are all meaningful, the dialogues are well written and the story is interesting and immersive. Its almost like reading a good story book.
user avatar@shivalahuser avatar@shivalah
January 31, 2025
Oh god. I remember this game and I recently wanted to replay it. I don’t know why, but I remember it having “pretty good” german voiceovers. My favorite thing of all time about it, is the fact that the german pc gaming magazine “GameStar” gave it an award for ‘extraordinary realism’ because terrain height and so on was an important factor in the battles. Bold choice for a warhammer fantasy game.
user avatar@Aponezuser avatar@Aponez
January 30, 2025
A worthy successor to Warcraft: Shadow of the Horned Rat, somewhat more complicated due to the undead nature of the enemies and that almost all of its units caused fear, a game that I would like to enjoy again
user avatar@zairisuser avatar@zairis
January 30, 2025
I remember being so hooked on this game, that when my alloted PC time was over I recreated the missions using Lego, humming the background music and mimicing the sound effects. I couple of years ago I managed to make my copy run on a modern system after some wrangling, and I'd say it still holds up, 3D terrain with character sprites is a really good combo, and even the interface while clunky, is still a massive improvement over SotHR. Trully a Good Old Game that could use some love in the "running it on modern hardware" department.
If you've never heard of warhammer, Dark omen brings you into the world and shows you what to expect. It doesn't tell you it shows you, and the first time you're wizard explodes will leave a lasting impression
user avatar@Tiger-DKuser avatar@Tiger-DK
January 31, 2025
Warhammer: Dark Omen was a special Place in My Heart. it was so good and so hard at the same time back then so many Memories the campaign was well written and games today don't have the same atmosphere as this one
user avatar@OllyOrcuser avatar@OllyOrc
January 31, 2025
A superb blend of micro and macro strategy, that has never been bettered. There's Win10/11 fixes and even new mod campaigns, maps and multiplayer on the Dark Omem forum.
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