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Dark Colony: The Council Wars

The Council Wars is an expansion pack for Dark Colony and adds 16 additional missions, new graphics, units and more. New things you will find are crashed flying saucers, Taar fortress markings, and even Area…

31 December 1998

Dark Colony: The Council Wars is a strategy developed by Take-Two Interactive, released 31 December 1998 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Dark Colony: The Council Wars is

Dark Colony: The Council Wars is a strategy game developed by Take-Two Interactive and released in 1998. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Council Wars is an expansion pack for Dark Colony and adds 16 additional missions, new graphics, units and more. New things you will find are crashed flying saucers, Taar fortress markings, and even Area 51. There is a new rattlesnake species that you can capture and use and much more. Continue your work to eradicate the humans as you play the alien Taar, or to destroy the aliens as you play as a human.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Dark Colony: The Council Wars launched on 31 December 1998, within three weeks of Suikoden II, Super Smash Bros., Crazy Taxi (1999) and Mario Party.

Released around the same time: Suikoden II, Super Smash Bros., Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party.

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When did Dark Colony: The Council Wars come out?
Dark Colony: The Council Wars was released on 31 December 1998 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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