Разработчик: Cavedog Entertainment
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Story / Background
In the distant future, the galaxy is ruled by a central body of humans and artificial intelligences called the Core (a contraction of "Consciousness Repository"). The Core's technological and economic triumphs have allowed humanity to colonize most of the Milky Way and enjoy peace and prosperity. However, the balance is broken by a technological breakthrough that allows the consciousness of a human being to be reliably transferred into a machine, thereby theoretically granting infinite life, in a process called "patterning." Following a mandate imposed on humanity by the Core requiring everyone to undergo patterning as a public health measure, a rebel band is formed out of colonies from the edges of the galaxy (hence their name, the Arm), whose members refused to leave their natural bodies to join the Core's machines. A war lasting 4,000 years followed, with the Arm mass-producing clones as pilots for its vehicles and the Core duplicating consciousness-embedded microchips to pilot its own machines.Key information
Total Annihilation (TA) is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game created by Cavedog Entertainment under the guidance of lead designer Chris Taylor. It was released on September 30, 1997, and was the first RTS game to feature 3D units and terrain. Two expansion packs were released: The Core Contingency on April 30, 1998, and Battle Tactics exactly 2 months later on June 30, 1998. When TA was released, the minimum computer requirements were a Pentium 100 MHz processor and 16 MB of RAM. Of course, these requirements were for computers in 1997; modern day machines easily exceed those recommended specifications, but it is still recommended to have a 1 GHz processor and 512 MB of RAM for the updated game engine.Game features
- Upon release, the original TA game boasted:
- Fully-articulated 3D units and buildings, with a diverse complement of unit types — for example, aircraft, amphibious tanks, infantry bots (kbots), vehicles, hovercraft, ships, submarines, unit production factories, powerful stationary defenses, and long-range weapons. A unique tracking feature allows players to follow single units, entire armies, or even projectiles across the landscape.
- True 3D terrain that units can climb over, into, and around, on extra-large 3D-generated maps. TA runs comfortably in high resolutions and even on modern dual monitor setups, so players can see more of the battlefield.
- Numerous world types to do battle on, such as grasslands, forests, deserts, archipelagos, open water, lava, metal, ice, crystal, acid, and even moons.
- More than 150 official units and 25 official missions per side in a single player campaign. The Core Contingency expansion pack added 75 new units (including the infamous Krogoth), 50 new maps, 25 new missions, and 6 new world types. Battle Tactics added 4 new units, 6 new maps, and 100 new missions. A final patch (version 3.1c, and included here) added 6 new units, including a resurrection kbot!
- Detailed and exciting campaigns that focus on their respective side's leaders, the Commanders. The stories of either the Core or the Arm start with an effort to defend the protagonist's home world and initiate a turning point in the war, followed by a series of battles on numerous planets and moons (using Galactic Gates as a form of faster-than-light transportation), before a final strike on the enemy's home world: either on the Arm's bucolic Empyrean or the Core's artificial Jupiter Brain world of Core Prime. Mission objectives include protecting a vital structure or area, capturing a pivotal enemy unit, or simply eliminating all enemy units. More powerful units and weapons are gradually unlocked throughout the campaigns after specific missions or events.
- Single-player skirmish battles and full multiplayer support, allowing players to watch and join battles, and form allied teams to share resources, information, and units.
- Highly advanced weaponry, including lasers, energy machine guns (EMGs), starburst missiles, plasma shells, lightning pulses, paralyzers, and nuclear warheads.
- Variables such as gravity, tides, and wind to disrupt the effectiveness of certain weapon types or to enhance resource production.
- Intelligence measures to detect or jam enemy units using radar and sonar, the ability to cloak or provide stealth shielding for units, and the means to revive destroyed units from their wreckages.
- Over the years, the TA community has created literally thousands of third-party units and hundreds of maps to customize a player's TA experience. Numerous utilities, missions, mods, and factions have also been created to rebalance or totally convert the game; many of these units are still in competitive online and skirmish play today. Modern modifications to the game push the venerable 16-year-old TA engine to new limits with complex scripting, allowing for mass unit transporting, instant map-wide teleportation, upgradeable units, and true shields — plus much more.
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Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8)
- Processor: 100 MHz
- Memory: 16 MB RAM
- Graphics: SVGA
- Storage: 400 MB available space
- Processor: 1 GHz
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
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OG
love it
literally my childhood
Easily one of the most complex weapon sets on an old school RTS game. A really fun multi player game
An RTS classic. Has not been eclipsed in many ways more than 25 years later.
Just as I remember it being: Good, clean, classic strategy game from the '90s. Still runs at top speeds with no hiccups, despite computers being 8000x faster.
The variety of units and the depth you'll find in here is unsurpassed by RTS games of today. Anything close is a knock-off. Every play-style is rewarded here.
IYKYK
used to play this back in middle school just recently downloaded and played 30 hours already they should consider making a second one super good game 10/10 recommend if you liek old schoool rts
total calssic, never gets old
GEM!!!! If you like C&C, get it! Sooooo good and so enjoyable when these cannons shoot. Totally underrated!
good
Aged a bit in some ways (camera is fixed-perspective and the UI doesn't scale properly past 800x600), but it's a milestone in the RTS genre and there's a reason it's still a cult classic. You'll need a mod like TAForever to do proper multiplayer outside of LAN, but apart from that it's the Base Game with Skirmish, All Campaigns, the Core Contingency Expansion, and that other one I can't remember the name of for only $7.50 AU!
And unlike my old Skirmish CD, you can now build a light aircraft carrier without the game crashing.
Worth a look.
classic RTS strategy game. I grew up playing this in the 90's.
One of my favorite childhood games
its pretty good
I grew up with TA Kingdoms, but once I was introduced to this last year, I was immediately hooked. The music, the fights, the AI insanity. It's something I really enjoy. It can be annoying when the AI gets stuck or gives up and you have to do everything (speaking mainly about the Skirmish fights), but that does not take away from the enjoyment one gets from either watching two AI teams fight, or assembling a force and demolishing an enemy team...or going the unheard of third route and using the Commander;s capture ability and taking some of another team's builders and assembling a force of all available units...or just grab a nuke and go for full devastation. Whichever route you take, it's a great ride. They even patched in 1080p support. Who could ask for more from a classic?
(Please, though. Get TA Kingdoms: Iron Plague on Steam too. People need the comparison and frankly, going over to GOG to get it feels a bit weird when this is here.)
fun
A+A++A+A+A+A+A+A+A+A++A
Old school, this game rules hard!!!
Fun Military game
Easy to remember
good old time play and forget the world game - wasted many hrs on this
Just a really fun strategy game
still goat
good old fav from long back
I love this game i loved it back in high school 90's I love it now Thank you
Pretty much grew up with this game. One of the first RTS games I played along with StarCraft.
Total Annihilation has a lot of mods for units, maps, and other 'races' online. You can build artillery, small strike forces, and have custom "skirmishes" with bots and has multiplayer (albeit a LAN situation, there could be some modded server stuff somewhere). This include mods that up the unit limit to, well, beyond what computers in the 90's were capable of.
This game is a bit innovative for it's time. You can actually hide behind cliffs and terrain to dodge enemy fire, to include the wreckage of other units. Long term battlefields start to look like WW1, dragon teeth, troops rushing through defenses, naval / air attacks. This game can get pretty crazy.
Definitely under looked and phasing out with spiritual successors such as "Supreme Commander" and "Planet Titans", though these newer modern game successors doesn't really have the freedom and mod support Total Annihilation does. Truly one of the classics as far as RTS's is concerned.
good game to burn time or even just to sit and build huge bases then go to war
This is my nostalgia game. Every once in a while i boot up this game, get into a skirmish, and mess around to my hearts content.
For a game made in the late 90's, this game has held up phenominally well, with fantastic artwork, a huge array of maps and units, and punchy sound effects (even if they are a little crunchy at times).
The only thing that hasn't held up very well is the unit pathfinding. Even with my nostalgia tinted glasses I have to admit that it's subpar. Some of the maps take this harder than others.
Even with the annoyingly simple pathfinding, and the overall lack of quality of life, I still come back to this little gem of a game.
On a final note, this game does have mods, and there are steam guides that can show you how to install them. Have fun blowing stuff up.
Still just as fun as it was back in the 90s
Highly Recommend
The greatest RTS that's ever lived.
>Played this game for 1 hour
>Peak
Good Game
Still the best after all these years.
Still Brilliant.
Deserving of a complete remaster IMHO.
be prepared for a long game
This game is still one of the best RTS games out.....
best rts all time
the best game of my whole life
Best RTS ever. EVER!
No.1 game ever invented.
An underrated RTS. A whole lot of fun, both the campaigns for the ARM and CORE, as well as the SKIRMISH modes. I actually liked (and still like) this game better than Starcraft or
Warcraft.
Very simple to play and very enjoyable. The graphics are very basic, but considering the game is 5000 years old ;) its very good!
This was the first PC game i ever experienced back on windows 98, and it has stayed with me through the years. There is no better RTS. This game deserves a remaster.
The Best Game Ever
An epic blast from the past, and (apparently) one of the first games to have rolling resources. Whilst it's a top down game, 3D physics is a thing with hills and line of sight affected by the terrain. There's even a narrator with an epic voice and great orchestral sound track. If that's not enough, how about the cheat "/sing"?
loved it since when. play it
to many crashes amazing and brings good memories buy it ran better on win 98
I played this when it came out for hours and hours, finishing the quest lines for both factions. I loved it so much. Building structures, defenses, cranking out different types of units etc. was such a new idea at the time for me. I loved sending out repair units to harvest destroyed vehicles to add to my stockpile. Coming back to playing it after so many years I see how much I enjoy the functionality, UIs and quality of life additions of newer games. TA is pretty basic in those regards at best. I still recommend playing it though. Just realize it's an old game with old ergonomics and graphics.
an old strategy game that i find fun.wish it supported multiplayer again
if i could only play 1 game for the rest of eternity, it would be this.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Cavedog Entertainment |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 18.01.2025 |
| Metacritic | 86 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 97% положительных (2253) |