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Summary: Wonderful Game
Review: A great game, and a worthy successor to Cavedog's initial Total Annihilation release.Pitted in an epic struggle, you control one of four nations. On the side of order and good fight Aramon and Veruna, masters of Earth and Water, respectively. On the side of chaos and evil are Taros and Zhon, fire and air respectively. Unlike most RTS games, Kingdoms allows the individual player varying levels of macro and micro management, allowing for endless build and tech possibilities. The artwork is superb, considering the age of the game engine, and gameplay is generally fast and exciting. The single player adventure is well written, with cutscenes that beautifully illustrate the complex plots and subplots in the storyline. Highly recommended. If you purchase this game, I also recommend looking for it's expansion pack, Total Annihilation Kingdoms: The Iron Plague, which introduces a unique 5th race, and a deeper and richer continuation of the story from the first. Excellently done.
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Summary: Tries to access non-existing websites all the time
Review: I haven't been able to use it. It tries to access non-existing websites and crashes. I have spend just about 30 minutes on it, and do not think I am going to waste any more of my time on it.
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Summary: I don't know
Review: I never played this game, but got it cause it's free after rebate. It'll be a good frisbee.
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Summary: I don't know
Review: I never played this game, but got it cause it's free after rebate. It'll be a good frisbee.
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Summary: Wonderful Game
Review: If you were a big fan of Cavedog's Total Annihilation you probably spent the [money]for "Kingdoms" and were disappointed. The original TA was the rare real time strategy game with balance, unique maps and cool units. The strong fan base also generated great after-market add ons for TA. Total Annihilation: Kingdoms (TAK) arrived with great expectation and underwhelmed most players. The game lacked the balance of TA and the whole "swords and sorcery" format felt a little stale. TAK falls short of Age of Empires and Empire Earth. The plot of TAK (single player) is somewhat interesting, but the constantly shifting empires doesn't allow the player to really become attached to the outcomes. Winning scenarios is not much more than getting a ticket punched. Whether you played as CORE or ARM forces in the original TA, by the end of the campaign you felt a sense of victory. Now that TAK is sitting in the bargain bin, it's not a bad game for a few dollars. On older machines, TAK will run like molasses, but new P4 with lots of RAM will make it playable. For a fan of RTS, TAK is worth a look. If you buy the disk, make sure you go online for the latest patches.
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Summary: The price is right for this mediocre title
Review: If you were a big fan of Cavedog's Total Annihilation you probably spent the [money]for "Kingdoms" and were disappointed. The original TA was the rare real time strategy game with balance, unique maps and cool units. The strong fan base also generated great after-market add ons for TA. Total Annihilation: Kingdoms (TAK) arrived with great expectation and underwhelmed most players. The game lacked the balance of TA and the whole "swords and sorcery" format felt a little stale. TAK falls short of Age of Empires and Empire Earth. The plot of TAK (single player) is somewhat interesting, but the constantly shifting empires doesn't allow the player to really become attached to the outcomes. Winning scenarios is not much more than getting a ticket punched. Whether you played as CORE or ARM forces in the original TA, by the end of the campaign you felt a sense of victory. Now that TAK is sitting in the bargain bin, it's not a bad game for a few dollars. On older machines, TAK will run like molasses, but new P4 with lots of RAM will make it playable. For a fan of RTS, TAK is worth a look. If you buy the disk, make sure you go online for the latest patches.
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Summary: Older game, still great
Review: This is a great game, though it is quite a few years old. I actually think it's a refreshing wake-up call from the depressing music and images of TA. Everything in TA is dark and dreary,(Although that doesn't bring down it's awesome gameplay.)
while on TAK maps, even the Tarosian ones, are lighter and more 'hopeful', and the music far more uplifting anf. (With the music in TA, you can believe the universe is coming to an end. Both of these games are great picks, and I would highly recommend these for any gamer. (. . .one last thing. Nothing at all is lost in the transformation from two energy sources to one source.)
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Summary: Great game
Review: This is a great game. It has a whole bunch of scenarios to play so it doesn't go stale in a week. The best part is that you can edit and create units and buildings yourself! There are tons of units and buildings online to download that have been made by other gamers so you aren't stuck doing the same thing over and over again. For the price, I think it is a must have!
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Summary: Great game
Review: This is a great game. It has a whole bunch of scenarios to play so it doesn't go stale in a week. The best part is that you can edit and create units and buildings yourself! There are tons of units and buildings online to download that have been made by other gamers so you aren't stuck doing the same thing over and over again. For the price, I think it is a must have!
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Summary: Great sequel
Review: _I was very glad to find this title. It is worth many times the money I spent on it. The graphics are good, the music...eh...is repetitive but not very annoying, the units are cool, the strenghts and weaknesses with each of the 4 armies are well balanced and makes gameplay very interesting, and it doesn't have the savegame problems of the upgraded original Total Annihilation. This game is perfectly stable and provided me with many, many hours of enjoyment. My only major fault with it was: the game status bar from the original Total Annihilation wasn't brought into this one (so to find out how many units I have build verses the max, I have to write down my current losses, then self-destruct all my units and note the difference in the number, then reload the game. Insanity!).
_Most of the other problems are little things. Like a simple gate can ONLY be built by your Monarch (the head of your army, you start with him). That makes NO sense. And this has a problem the previous game had, but was less apparent. To upgrade a resource collector, you should be able to click on it and upgrade it, even if you lose it's collecting abilities while being upgraded. But no, here, you have to destroy it then build the advanced one over the resource. In the previous game, Total Annihilation, you could reclaim the previous collector, so at least there WAS that.
_Other than those sorts of things, this game has a very high replay value, and the story mode is very involving and proceeds quite interestingly. Except for one part...where you jump between two competing forces...and as you play one side, you establish a beachead on an enemy continent. Then you play the other side and drive them off the land again. Goes back and forth a good 3 or 4 times. Slightly amusing and irritating at the same time.
_The game also comes with a VERY fun map editor. It's easy to use, and you can load up maps from any upgrades/expansions you install on your game. I made many of my own maps, and was quite pleased with the results. Simple to use, worked perfectly, and increased the replay value of the game exponentially. _In short: GET THIS GAME!!! You'll get hundreds of times your money's worth.
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