If you like to fiddle around trying to run old games on Windows (I know I do), have the CD copy of Dark Omen lying around and want to run it to experience the full campaign once again, I recommend reading Olly's Win 10 guide on the Dark Omen forum, which contains step-by-step instructions on how to run the game on modern machines.

More information on how Dark Omen was taken apart and reconstucted by this team of skillful fanatics can be found on Dark Omen Reborn blog.

You could also say that the Shogun: Total War, which came out roughly 2 years after Dark Omen used some similar ideas ) They went great lengths to recreate all of the complex mechanics that made Dark Omen such a fun game (and most faithful recreation of Warhammer Fantasy Battles on PC bar Shadow of The Horned Rat), once again including morale system and fights based on dice rolls, calculated in the background by the computer, assuring smooth real-time action.ĭark Omen Reborn download link is in the description of the video.Īlthough this demo contains only the first level of the game, it's enough to refresh the memory of the games mechanics and compare it to its predecessor. It's been built with Unreal Engine 4, by a group of dedicated fans of the original and runs on Win 10 fine. For all of you who are waiting on GOG's re-release of Warhammer: Dark Omen (Shadow of The Horned Rat's sequel) -, I've got good news: there's a remake named ' Dark Omen Reborn'.

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