Who remembers Shadow of the Horned Rat?

[Vargas78]

One could say it all began with Shadow of the Horned Rat. Warhammer PC gaming and total war style battles. Now it's gone full circle!

I hope someone does a Shadow of the Horned Rat remake campaign one day :)

[David]

I re-bought the game recently on gog.com , works fine the little I played it. :) Much harder than I remember though! Now if only they'd release a digital copy of Dark Omen . . .

[Goethe's Faust]

I can remember it as well. Though, Dark Omen is superior IMO and still the best tabletop realization on PC (Mark of Chaos was ok but no worthy successor to SoftHR and DO).

However, Total War: Warhammer looks really, really promising and I hope we'll finally get another superb realization of the franchise on PC after 18 years!

[Warlord]

It was such a bad game. I remember it. Way too overrated.

[Smoshie666]

In my head they actually look similar when you are zoomed out :)

[Vargas78]

Originally posted by Warlord:

It was such a bad game. I remember it. Way too overrated.

Youre judging it through a modern lens, remember this was 1996. And whilst it wasnt one of the greats (like xcom 1 and civ 2) it was a good game that is historically significant for influencing the total war battle engine. I liked the cutscenes,voice acting and music as a warhammer fan i was in my element.

[Cross{x}Hair]

I LOVED that if u destroyed the windmill in the earlier missions u got a wikid sword to use next battle (and thereafter)

[Smoshie666]

There was a particularly epic battle where you had to execute a fighting retreat, sacrificing a unit to hold back the endless tides of greenskins, as you fled into the dwarven hold.

[kilo 40]

SotHR is the game that made me take an interest when the origional Shogun came out.I spent soooo much time with that game on the PS1. almsot as much as doom, resident evil and XCOM. Ive waited for this game for a long long time now.

[JTW]

First game i ever bought, so yeah it holds a special place for me :)

Afterwards came Dark Omen which was a great game in its own right, but never really reached the level of SotHR, for me atleast.

And yeah OP, i definitely hope they'll do a remake at some point!

Fun fact: I remember looking at the ingame images on the back of the box and not having the slighest idea what they were showing, until i got home and installed and found out that was a a fight between grudgebringer cavalry and some orcs. I never played games for their graphics, but i'm still glad we've gotten so much further :)

[Manchine]

I had and beat it back in the day. It was fun.

[Painsen]

shadow of the hornet rat was very nice. i loved it. dark omen was great too, especially in multiplayer we played it alot.

[Vargas78]

dark omen, just took things a step further. It improved the battle engine but i prefered the setting and voice acting of shadow of the horned rat.

[Warlord]

Originally posted by Vargas78:

Originally posted by Warlord:

It was such a bad game. I remember it. Way too overrated.

Youre judging it through a modern lens, remember this was 1996. And whilst it wasnt one of the greats (like xcom 1 and civ 2) it was a good game that is historically significant for influencing the total war battle engine. I liked the cutscenes,voice acting and music as a warhammer fan i was in my element.

No it was even bad at the time.

Myth was miles beyond those 2 warhammer games.

[Miyokari]

Shadow of the Horned Rat was great, but Dark Omen was just amazing :)

[Budoshi]

Originally posted by Vargas78:

One could say it all began with Shadow of the Horned Rat. Warhammer PC gaming and total war style battles. Now it's gone full circle!

I hope someone does a Shadow of the Horned Rat remake campaign one day :)

haha i do!! warhammer been ported to total war is a dream come true for me.