Ground Control: Dark Conspiracy is the official expansion to Swedish developer Massive Entertainment s graphically stunning real-time tactical combat game, which was released about six months earlier. Created by American studio High Voltage Software, Dark Conspiracy is a fully featured expansion that introduces an all-new faction of futuristic units for you to command, as well as a new campaign containing 15 successive single-player scenarios. The game also has several new multiplayer maps designed by the original Ground Control team. Yet despite all its additions, Dark Conspiracy makes no significant changes to the way the original game plays. Therefore, it may remind you of some of the frustrations you encountered with the original, even though Ground Control: Dark Conspiracy fundamentally remains the same great strategy game as its predecessor. Nevertheless, since the expansion is available for just a nominal shipping cost to players who already own Ground Control, its problems will seem mostly trivial.

Ground Control: Dark Conspiracy is the official expansion to Swedish developer Massive Entertainment's graphically stunning real-time tactical combat game, which was released about six months earlier. Created by American studio High Voltage Software, Dark Conspiracy is a fully featured expansion that introduces an all-new faction of futuristic units for you to command, as well as a new campaign containing 15 successive single-player scenarios. The game also has several new multiplayer maps designed by the original Ground Control team. Yet despite all its additions, Dark Conspiracy makes no significant changes to the way the original game plays. Therefore, it may remind you of some of the frustrations you encountered with the original, even though Ground Control: Dark Conspiracy fundamentally remains the same great strategy game as its predecessor. Nevertheless, since the expansion is available for just a nominal shipping cost to players who already own Ground Control, its problems will seem mostly trivial.

 

The game's story puts you in the role of Jacob Angelus, a captain in the Northern Star Alliance. Your home planet, Morningstar Prime, is currently under siege by Imperial Terran forces led by the ruthless Imperator Vlaana. As you make your way through the campaign, an alien race, known as the Virons, will eventually get involved in both sides of the conflict. The game includes a pair of linear, 12-mission campaigns where you'll control the NSA forces and then the Virons. Though the storyline behooves you to play the campaigns in that order, you may choose to start on either campaign at the outset of the game.