Total Annihilation: Kingdoms

Rating:
Summary: It's your average game
Review: This is probably closer to 3 and a half beuse of a few nice features, such as the loading screen is a stained glass that fills in. But the actual game has a really easy campain and really hard skirmish. There are may different units for each different player. You pay for everything with mana that recharges depenting on the number of loadstones and divine loadstones that you place. I would recommend buying it because of the cheap price.

Rating:
Summary: the game that never gets boring
Review: Total Annihilation Kingdoms is probably one of my favourite games. the vast amount of units and levels keeps me occupied for hours. sometimes i would get bored of the game for a couple of weeks but then i would get hooked again.the only flaws in the game in my oppinion would be that it is slightly easy, and the fact that u can only build 2oo units,max and only 1 dragon (not counting the dragons u convert). overall i think its a great game and any true lover of strategy and tactics should own this game.

Rating:
Summary: Ok..... This is isn't what I expected
Review: What I expected was another Total Annihilation, but obviously I was at err, I don't know who made this game but if it was the original design team of TA then they were smoking somethin that made pretty colors dance across the screen. Ok, bottom line, TA kingdoms is by far the worst possible stradegy game ever! It is SO slow on my P2 450mhz computer( after I got about 50 units or so) it was ridiculas! I mean it was like watching your units walk through glue because the game slows down so bad, it took my little army of 30 units 15 minutes to reach the enemy base! Also 3D acceleration for this game is non-existent! In the original TA the computer cheated, but it wasn't to an extream sence, here they made it ten-fold! Whenever you aren't looking over the enemy's base, they make units in 3 seconds or less, they can make thousands of units with only one lodestone in place! its ridiculously IMPOSSIBLE in skirmish(when you are just getting your defences finished they will have those plus a 30+ army coming to attack your base) and just plain weird in campaign mode. Do not buy this game, buy the original TA, its WAY better, trust me. Avoid Kingdoms like it is a urine cup used to serve apple juice!

Rating:
Summary: Cavedog should be ashamed...
Review: While TA: Kingdoms is a good overall concept, it's the little concepts of the game that destroy it. Location mana stones can be built on are very limited, and guarding each one spreads your forces too thin. If you have a concentrated force guarding a mana stone, so what? A powerful wizard spell can wipe the force out in seconds. The dragons, "the most terrifying and powerful of creatures" fall all too quickly under half-decent defensive structures. If you're looking for a good RTS game, get the original Total Annihilation, as it still stands up in the genre. This one was sugar-coated, and over-hyped...it doesn't do any justice to the TA franchise.

Rating:
Summary: Not as bad as advertised.
Review: Why is everyone upset with this game? I'm not sure, but I'm not one of them. I guess everyone expected alot more than the original Total Annihilation and what they got was something designed a little better. Maybe a little too pretty. Here is what the game has going for it. Excellent detail to the each unit, building, and the surrounding terrain. A good story. Units with special attack features and some of these are really cool. The gameplay is pretty good also. The on-line gaming at boneyards. This is where the game really excels and is probably more competitive. What could've been better? The soundtrack wasn't very good. There was too much quietness when playing. And in some of the battles, the only way in was a narrow passage where only 2 units could stand side by side. the computer would just pack this passage way and it would take forever to get in (it took me over 7 hours on 2 such battles towards the end of the game). I would probably rate this closer to 3 1/2 stars, but I did enjoy this game. Lots of different characters and some pretty good battles.