![]() Warhammer: Dark Omen is based on the Warhammer Fantasy Battle miniature tabletop wargame rules and situated in the Old World in the Warhammer Fantasy world and makes good use of the vast background, creating a deeply engrossing storyline that develops over the course of the game through illustrations and voice acted conversations. ![]() The 3D terrain and features are combined with 2D sprites (" billboarding") to render the hundreds of individual units simultaneously on-screen on the limited hardware of 1998 a technique still employed in games many years later, a good example being the essentially similar game Shogun: Total War (2000). Rendered entirely in a freely rotatable- and zoomable steep isometric 3D overhead perspective, the game features for its time remarkable 3D graphics of terrain, terrain features and buildings, and advanced support of the first-generation Voodoo 3dfx 3D accelerator card effects. It is one of the earliest fully recognisable and seminal of the genre and seminal in being an archetypal specimen. ![]() ![]() Warhammer: Dark Omen, the sequel to Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat (1995), is a real-time tactics wargame. Pentium 166 MHz, 32 MB RAM, 265 MB disk space
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