Never heard of this game before but the looks remind me a lot of the first starcraft. I was wondering if it was equally good

It's older than StarCraft, and lacks a bit of it's fine tuned balancing and widely different factions. It plays a bit more like Command & Conquer, or more specifically, very similar to Dark Reign (which is also up on GOG, released 2 years after the original KKnD). Unlike Blizzard's RTSes there is no population cap, very few keyboard shortcuts and unit and building construction is handled in a general sidebar instead of unit/building specific menus.
If you'll like it will probably depend a lot on what you like about Starcraft, as Blizzard's and Westwood's RTS design philosophies were quite different, and this is very much in the style of Westwood's games rather than Blizzard. If you're into classic style RTS games, from before they all had to be all made for E-sports, and you like the post-apocalyptic setting, I'd say you might want to check it out. I very much prefer this style over the Blizzard design school, but I know I'm in a minority on that.

One of the things I was impressed about with this game was the balanced way the AI attacks, just enough to pressure you without (as long as you don't mess up)quite managing to overwhelm.

Other things of note are it has quite a good story for the time and some of the cut scenes are hilarious.

It's an RTS for Mad Max fans.

That part wasn't handled very gracefully, the game flat out crashes to desktop if you click the multiplayer button. So it's not just a matter of missing servers, that entire menu crashes the game.

Doesn't do so for me.

And as for the game - it's some amazing stuff IMHO. It's from times when RTS games were still made for fun. Don't expect that perfectly designed masterpiece where every unit has a special function in a highly complex system. It's just two crazy factions kicking each other's butts C&C style. Sometimes it's frustrating but usually it's just fun.

And the game makes fun of itself, just for the lulz. The briefings are killing me. :)

Yeah, the combination of an actor with the non-sensical log is great. I especially love the insecure scout. :D

I remember playing it earlier. It was a real tough RTS but it was fun as hell!
The "extreme" edition introduced some changes, but i can't recall, what changes were made. I assume it complicated the difficulty a bit :)

I never played it when it was originally released, and I love it, so it's definitely not just a nostalgia thing, that said, the games does have some issues. The path-finding is pretty poor, units won't take any action to let another friendly unit past (like they did in C&C 2 years prior), sometimes the units choose to take unnecessarily long paths even when the shorter path is not obstructed, it becomes pretty evident in missions 2 and 3 of the survivor campaign, where the base has two entries, one below a natural arch to the south and a long canyon to the east, and many of my units decide to take the longer canyon path instead of the other even when I order them to go just to the other side of the arch to the south. There are a few polish issues as well, but they don't affect the gameplay like the path-finding does. The starting build order is kinda odd too, but you learn it fast. Unlike most other RTSes where you either start the resource gathering instantly or with a simple sequence (C&C's "deploy base, build power station, and build refinery", or TA's "just start building resource collectors"), I find the "build base, build power collector, build vehicle factory, build oil derrick at factory, deploy oil derrick, tell the truck you got with the power collector to gather resources at the oil derrick" having a few too many steps. The music and FMV sequences are wonderful, and once you get the hang of that initial odd build order, I find it hard to not fall into the "just one more mission" thing.

I played this and KKnD 2, very fun series!

It's got C&C style gameplay, so I got into it right away back then when it was still new.

I hope GOG gets the next game soon!

Apparently, those who made Shogun were compelled to do so having been so dispirited by this game.

Don't listen to them.

It's a bit like C&C, but much, much harder.

You can pit giant scorpions against tanks.

Need I say anymore?

Please state what Windows you're using! XP? Since you say it doesn't crash for you.

Windows 7 x64. Just so things are clear: When I click on Multiplayer I get into the menu where you can select the type of connection you want to use and IPX is greyed out. I have not checked what happens when I click one of those connection types (i.e. Serial which is not greyed out).

Interresting! I wonder what the difference is? I tried on 3 PCs, same deal. This is on Win7 x64, too. If you start the game with XP mode SP2, does it then crash on startup? How does the rest of your PC specs look like? CPU/GPU in particular.

BTW: you can use a IPX wrapper to play over IPX on Win7.

Here:

http://www.solemnwarning.net/ipxwrapper/

Be sure to add the 64-bit reg, in the download, to the regedit. That's the directconnect reg in the download, btw.