Total Annihilation
Cavedog

Yes, I know it’s been out a while:

The day when I purchased Command & Conquer changed my gaming life, what this game started was the best selling genre in PC games today. What with Starcraft, C&C, Red Alert, Warcraft 2 and Total Annihilation and to a lesser extent, Dark Reign, all selling extremely well, better than most other games. So RTS games sell more than other games, but why do they do so well, this is the only genre that I know that some Quake addicts (who hate anything which isn’t quake) actually play.

So what is it about then, well there’s the strategy part, the fact that you have to use the right thing for the right job (either that or pump like mad). You also have more death and destruction in these games than any other, and you also get one of the best multiplayer mode (apart from FPS games). Now I am a big RTS fan, I have played all of them, some are crap, some don’t even deserved to be mentioned, others are good, and then there are the small amount of really good ones.

Well at the start everyone was saying about how good C&C was, I agreed, while Warcraft 2 was good it wasn’t quite as good, then Red Alert came, which was nothing more than a Commercial release (for a few dollars more!!) it introduced very little and was not original and it wasn’t as good as C&C but it sold by the millions. After Red Alert (and it’s awful add-on’s) came Dark Reign and this did fairly well but it was quickly stomped from upon high when a little known game came along called Total Annihilation.

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