Dark Reign 2 is a 3D real-time strategy video game developed by Pandemic Studios and released by Activision in 2000 for Microsoft Windows.
As the earth reeled into ecological collapse, the JDA established large dome cities to protect the citizenry from the harsh conditions outside.
The disenfranchised Sprawlers are thus left in the outside world, bathed in the harsh conditions of a dying planet and fueled by the explosive rage of rebels fighting for a free life under the thumb of a cold overlord.
As the story progresses, both sides gain access to new units and structures which the player will need to use in order to proceed further and develop more powerful strategies.
Activity in the city is going wild with Sprawlers making regular skirmishes and setting up anti-air batteries that harass air traffic.
To deal with this, Strike Force deploys aerial infantry to destroy two Togran power generators in order to disable the pylons and proceed.
Their plans make them abandon their post at a large powered gate, which is meant to prevent hordes of Sprawlers from entering the zone.
Strike Force is sent in to deal with the cowards before they can escape, which is followed by pushing back the Sprawlers and building power generators on the gate, reactivating it.
Strike Force is tasked with retrieving the second artifact hidden in a temple but along the way, encounter heavy resistance with suicidal cultists of unknown origin, as well as Baron Samedi's, traditionally a Sprawler power from the Shrine.
This is achieved by a large offensive in Arctic mountains to capture Booda Shun, the Voodun High Priest, who reveals the location of the third artifact.
During the final stage, as the last JDA citizens are being evacuated, Cygnet requests that Strike Force sacrifice themselves by remaining behind and destroying the artifacts, achieving this by gathering them around a large number of atomic energy plants before detonating them.
A new Sirdar (the player) begins by aiding them in a more important offensive than the skirmishes of recent, hacking a communication centre feeding a city zone JDA propaganda so that the Sprawlers can spread their own message.
They are the first to notice that seismic activity on Earth is increasing on a global scale and taking advantage by making a strike on a crippled base, bringing their first victory.
The Sirdar must then send forces through icey mountains to rescue the Voodun high priest, Booda Shun, from JDA captivity and take him to the shrine so he can examine the site.
After securing the river and earning the Breks trust, thanks to new aerial and water technologies, they find the JDA have a secret weapons facility not far ahead from intel by their new allies.
Dark Reign 2 underperformed commercially,[5][6] and journalists Mark Asher and Tom Chick noted that it "didn't even hit PC Data's charts".
[7] A Hacker News user received confirmation from the repository owner that this was in fact a leak and not an officially sanctioned code release.
[8] The leak also included headers and code from third-party sources with licenses that explicitly forbid public disclosure and redistribution.