I loved it, I bought all the expansion packs! (127)
44%
I played it a few times, it was ok. (70)
24%
I added 500 more units to the game from the modding community, this game was a masterpiece! (44)
15%
Never heard of it. (31)
11%
Barely remember hearing about it way back when. (18)
6%
290 total votes
Your vote: Have you ever played Total Annihilation?
(Vote): Never heard of it. (Vote): Barely remember hearing about it way back when. (Vote): I played it a few times, it was ok. (Vote): I loved it, I bought all the expansion packs! (Vote): I added 500 more units to the game from the modding community, this game was a masterpiece!
Remember how HUGE the modding community was for this game? I think it was technically the first RTS to ever allow easy and dynamic modifications. It came out a year before Starcraft and it was still better for customization. You were able to go online and download big unit packs and sometimes even entirely new tech levels.
The modding community is still alive and well with new mods still coming out... lol I have no idea who has the time to make them but oh yeah they're still making new ones. Cavedog (the creators) died shortly after the final expansion pack, but the game lived on just fine without them and was constantly being improved by its fans.
Please tell me someone has heard of this: http://springrts.com/ This is taking TA to the next (or current) level. I highly recommend you all check it out if you haven't heard of it already. And it is free.
On March 14 2012 06:51 Erethorma wrote: Please tell me someone has heard of this: http://springrts.com/ This is taking TA to the next (or current) level. I highly recommend you all check it out if you haven't heard of it already. And it is free.
I was just going to bring this up. The Spring engine was originally designed to recreate the gameplay of Total Annihilation. There are several game out now that use this engine, but the most successful one currently is probably Zero-K. You can download Zero-K for free, and the game just recently passed the v1.0 threshold.
That game was awesome...it had the most devastating tech tree that was actually difficult to move up (takes a loong time to build a big bertha). But when you do, its so destructive and amazing. Especially the experimental weapons.
Secondly the music was the best music I've ever heard in a game. The AI wasn't perfect but definitely one of the most memorable RTS games ever
My friends and I played this a lot. We even had the fantasy version, even thought it was so much worse haha. I remember building epic defense and teching to the Kragoth like every game XD. I had absolutely no idea that there was a huge modding community for this game, wish i still had the game.
I got pretty into TA, I made my own units, maps and tools for modding. It used to run like shit at the time on a 300 MHz Pentium, I ran it a few years ago and it's impossible to control at max speed since everything runs too fast . The Boneyards feature was also way ahead of its time - persistent territory control multiplayer matchmaking? Shame Cavedog went under.
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