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Review: Total Annihilation (And TA:Spring)

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Review: Total Annihilation (And TA:Spring)

A nostalgia-driven review.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Annihilation
from JoeUser Forums

    Total Annihilation was one of my first games, and remains, to this day, one of my favorites. It is pure concentrated awesome science fiction joy. Take lots of robots, have them blow each other up, and watch the chaos. Or control them. Those were the best years, before we worried about 3d and whatnot, we had Total Annihilation. The awesomest game ever. I hereby give it my best game ever award (7 @'s). TA:Spring is a project to remake Total Annihilation into true three dimensions, and it includes lots of neat features (and free license content packs, for you who heathens don't own in even one, much less excess of eight copies), such as individual unit control. Try it today.

    Or my ARM commander will kick your Core Krogoth's butt across the battlefield with his D-Gun.

TA Spring

TA Spring Screenshot

Total Annihilation

TA Screenshot

TA Coverart

For all you skeptics, here's more evidence to my best game ever claim.

List of awards recieved by Total Annihilation

I also declare September 30th Annihilation Day, an international holiday.

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Reply #28 from Sins Forums Top
If anyones curious as to the last remnants of "online" total annihilation community that still actively play TA...

The community can be found here WWW Link

However its better to goto TA Spring. Its free to download and play. You dont need to own any TA product or anything to play Spring. 300+ players online , fun lively.


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Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top

Actually, it's commonly considered copyright violation to play XTA or BA or certain other mods without owning the original TA.

Reply #30 from Demigod Forums Top
Following the release of version 3.1 a while ago, all missions are unlocked from the very start.

Oh, the cheat is "drdeath" or something like that anyway.
Reply #31 from JoeUser Forums Top

Yeah, drdeath is a cheat featured in multiple Chris Taylor games. The one that comes to mind other than TA right now is Dungeon Siege.

Reply #32 from Sins Forums Top
Actually, it's commonly considered copyright violation to play XTA or BA or certain other mods without owning the original TA.
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maybe , but I doubt anyone cares.

My point really is that there have been rumors that you need files from the original TA inorder to play Spring but infact you dont need anything from TA to play Spring.

Reply #33 from JoeUser Forums Top

No, you don't, but TA is still copyrighted, and not really abandonware.