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Summary: This game is awesome, but the AI and balance could be better
Review: If you get this game, I really suggest searching on the Internet to find user supplied maps and units. Some of them are really good. I also suggest getting TA: Core Contingency and the Battle Tactics is not bad (look for the Commander Pack that has them both).Anyway, you control either Arm or Core forces. Although the units for each are very similar, the details are different. The particular strengths of each unit is different. You control mechs (kbots), vehicles like rovers and tanks, gun emplacements like rocket towers, lasers, and a variety of huge cannons. You can also make planes, hovercraft (with the right extras), boats, and submarines. The models are all rendered in 3d and they look really cool. The basic game has maybe 150 units and with the downloaded units and the expansion packs it is over 300. There are lots of great maps to choose from -- you can have a battle in a crumbling city, mountains, between islands, at sea, in a lavascape, or many other exotic locations. The game balance is a bit iffy. When playing multi player, we had to put limits on the types of units that could be built. Some of the long range cannons and assault aircraft were too powerful. But multiplayer is really a blast! The computer AI is not too hot, once you become familiar with the game. In the single player missions, the pieces and scripts seem like they do a pretty good job, but in single player skirmishes, the AI really does a poor job. My overall assement is this game ROCKS!
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Summary: Probably one of the best RTS games to date
Review: My brother convinced me to buy this game. I was skeptical at first, thinking "Oh No, not ANOTHER boring RTS!" How wrong I was. While the engine does have its quirks, the games mechanics run like a dream! It's easy to get up and running without a lot of tutorials or anything that difficult. The sounds of the different units I think are the most fun. By any stretch, if you enjoy RTS games you would probably like this game. I would say it's in the top 5 RTS games since the birth of the genre. Purchase it NOW!!!
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Summary: Probably one of the best RTS games to date
Review: My brother convinced me to buy this game. I was skeptical at first, thinking "Oh No, not ANOTHER boring RTS!" How wrong I was. While the engine does have its quirks, the games mechanics run like a dream! It's easy to get up and running without a lot of tutorials or anything that difficult. The sounds of the different units I think are the most fun. By any stretch, if you enjoy RTS games you would probably like this game. I would say it's in the top 5 RTS games since the birth of the genre. Purchase it NOW!!!
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Summary: An Overview of Total Annihilation
Review: Real Time strategy with realistic terrain and ballistics. Better than Starcraft.
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Summary: Great
Review: Real Time strategy with realistic terrain and ballistics. Better than Starcraft.
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Summary: The choice is simple
Review: Simply put, and without a doubt, this is *THE BEST* RTS game you could ever hope to spend your money on. This game was originally released in the late 90's, but leaves every game released since LACKING. That's right, every single RTS out right now can't hold a candle to the replayability of this jewel. That is a bold statement if you consider that this game was released over 6 years ago. The original Playstation was only released 2 years prior. I have played lots of games over the years - EverQuest, Quake, StarCraft, WarCraft, Diablo, Command and Conquer, and more - but always come back to this one because it is still the only one that provides the playability and fun that I look for. I'm not certain if the original expansion units and maps are available on this cd, but luckily for you there is a plethora of fan sites still active today that carry every type of map and unit you could hope to have. You would actually be doing yourself a disservice by only playing with the stock install of the game. My personal suggestion is the Total Annihilation Units Compilation Pack by Malcolm Lim (Google search it). Buy this game. You won't regret it.
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Summary: War Games
Review: This game excels in the ability to simulate a massive war. When I play with my friend, it gives me that same feel of crashing cars together when I was young. The lighting and smoke effects are amazing, especially for a game so old. Seeing the volleys of plasma blasts and rockets makes me smile with glee. Hitting a unit hard enough to make it fragment is amazing. Pieces of the unit go flying off. Units leave wreckage which impede movement and block shots. Wreckage is 3D rendered too, and has height. Ships will sink to the bottom of the water, waiting to be reused, by reclaiming it with a construction robot. With patches, you can build a ship yard in lava, which slowly damages your ships.
Terrain is 3D. Beware of hills. That BFC that you just built can't always lob a shot over the hills. Makes me want to pull out my trig book so I can calculate where to put it to fire over the hills and walls. Also, those trees are pretty, but they have several uses. They can absorb one plasma blast, or catch fire by lasers, missiles, flamethrowers, or rockets, damaging units that are too close. The forest fire moves with the wind on the map. They can also be used as a cheap source of energy, by reclaiming them.
Units tilt when going up hills, and wobble when hit by enemy fire, and rock when returning fire. My favourite is watching the battleship fire its long range cannons in a salvo fire, and then rocking a bit in the water. The turrets are amazing. The battleship has two independant turrets that can fire at two enemies at once! The Dooms Day can fire at three units at once. Several units have multiple weapons to deal with different foes.
I'd write more, but all this ranting and raving makes me want to go play it now. Just go visit the forums for more info. either ...
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Summary: Cannot put this game down
Review: This game is amazing, after however many years this game still gets me to play it for at least 3 hours at a time. Hundreds of maps and units to download off the internet, maps that can be over 63 screens across by 63 screens down, and your units can attack from land sea or air. The only problem is the multi-player against the AI are often too easy, and they don't usually build the most appropriate units (50 land units on an island?). The building your own maps and units is very nice, but are hard to make.
I think this game and its expansions are must must-haves!
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Summary: Best RTS Game Period.
Review: This game is one of the best PC games I've ever played. I was a strict console gamer with no intentions of switching to PC, but when i played this game, i quickly changed my mind. I now play it regularly, and even on-line. The sound is amazing with a musical score to rival the masters, and when you select a unit, they hum to life. Graphic wise, this game is good. When it was made in 1997 this was exceeding the norm overhead 2D. Overall I give this game a 10/10. With a re-play factor that will make you keep coming back for more.
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Summary: Ever wanted to command an army?
Review: This is hands-down the best real-time strategy game ever and could even rival the brilliant turn-based Jagged Alliance 2 for best strategy game ever.
Normally i despise games with no plot. I consider them shameless money-makers for studios too busy to come up with a plausible story line. Here, however, I have no complaints. Not only was I satisfied with the opening movie's lackluster explanation of the 1000 years of total war, i endorsed it. The combatants are machines, what plausible storyline could encompass a battle on a million worlds between two robot armies. I'll take two armies completely bent on the other's destruction.
The gameplay takes computer-battle to a new level. Infantry, tanks, mobile artillery and rocket launchers, battleships and aircraft carrier, spy planes and bombers: there are literally scores of units available at your disposal for the destruction of the enemy. Looking brilliant, sounding wonderful, fighting ferociously, the game's title of Total Annihilation is well earned. I have played skirmishes that lasted for over 24 hours (the game thankfully allows you to save your skirmishes, something not done much in strategy games), and my devotion to one side kept me awake for long nights playing the campaigns too. It seems inconceivable that there could be people who didn't or don't like this game. The battlefields are also incredibly diverse, from lush forests (that can be set alight!) to metal wastelands to barren lunar landscapes.
I can't reccomend any game aside from Half-Life more highly. 10/10
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