Total Annihilation
Cavedog

Graphics are important, but speed is more important:

Now how the hell do you judge these, ok it’s 3D but has no Accelerator support yet it still looks lovely, but messy. The terrain’s are nice but some are very bland, and the water is just blue, but yet it is drawn on a 3D world so it is above some of the terrain, which also makes it look real.

The explosions are fantastically big and make the whole screen rumble; however they are hardly as pretty as in more modern games. There are lots of nice touches in it though such as animated cannons when firing and tanks that rock when being hit. There are alot of resolutions to pick from, but graphically they don’t make much difference, you can just see more of the screen at once plus you have to consider whether it is worth the performance hit.

So by now you should understand how hard it is to really judge these graphics, they are nice despite the lack of Acceleration (which isn’t necessary in some cases, such as Wargames which looks exactly the same with or without).

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