Archers, cannons, sorcerers and dwarves will all join up so that, by the end, you’re controlling an ecclectic band of the weird and wonderful, as they clash with an enemy force that threatens all that is good in the world (as an old game the narrative is pretty simple and straightforward, to say the least). At the start, you’ll command a unit of infantry and one of cavalry, but as you take on missions and visit new places that force will grow as new units come to join your army. In Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat you are in control of a mercenary army, split up into small units of fighters. Related reading: The first in-game trailer for the upcoming Warhammer game by The Creative Assembly looks incredible.

And, if the memories and the experience of playing it now don’t match up (as is very often the case with old games), I would be crushed.īut I’m glad I did play it after all, because it’s everything I remember, and life doesn’t get better than that. For all my fond memories of Shadow of the Horned Rat I now had very high expectations in playing it again. Why? Because nostalgia is a dangerous beast.

I had thought that Warhammer would be relegated to my memory as a beloved classic I can no longer experience, along with the likes of SSI’s classic Dungeons & Dragons DOS games, and Civilization 2.īut then GOG announced that it had emulated the game and brought it back in a format that could run on modern PCs. It has been a very long time since I have had a PC that would happily run Windows 95 games. I have listed it as one of my favourite games of all time, and I spent many, many, many hours as a kid playing it over and over again.īut all of that love I had for the game was based on nostalgia, and nothing more. I’ve raved a lot about my love for Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat already.

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