Renegade X: Black Dawn is a short singleplayer campaign released on 28 February 2012 as a promotional demo for Renegade X. Several reasons for releasing Black Dawn before the multiplayer release were to test certain aspects of the game which could already be developed in the new engine, such as models, props and weapon handling; and considering an expansions of the game into the standalone territory, one being remastering the original Renegade campaign.