Nevertheless, my experience is that multi player game play can be tenuous at best. It seems that the most efficient games stay at three players or less. When you go over 3 players, chances are one of you will be dusted by latency rather than your opponent. Activision didn't create any miracles here but they have offered up a fun and challenging mix. Total Annihilation is still the king of real time but Dark Reign does beat out Dark Colony and nips at the heels of Stagecraft.
Some single missions have scripts.
Usual Multiplayer options. 3D units, buildings. The 2d graphics are well drawn. Though the 3d RTS games seem to be the rage nowadays. I like what dark reign does for the 2d graphics genre.