Total annihilation - Brutal Battle (music)

[rie0121]

needed a poo, toilet was occupied...

...my construction kbot was 'Waiting for target area to clear'

[gardnerbm]

Brawler: All pads occupied

[quantumpanic]

@mrfatmancory that was a pretty sick archer to shoot an arrow to the one already in your knee

[mrfatmancory]

i used to listen to Jeremy soul music, then i took an arrow to the arrow to the knee, still listen to Jeremy soul music though.

[LastdayofHumanity]

he should be the composer of the next star wars movies

[BVargas78]

@LastdayofHumanity Jeremy Soule always looked up to John Williams. I think this is one of those cases in that the student matches, at times outperforms the master :)

[Mechagriffen]

The end of the song still gives me chills.

[jJenova]

Why couldn't Starcraft 2 have such good music?

[danbassuk]

Why do hardly any games these days have epic music like this?! (aside from Oblivion and Skyrim..oh wait, Soule did those too. Pwned)

[dmo580]

adv. construction vehicle: i cant get there

adv. construction vehicle: i cant get there

adv. construction vehicle: i cant get there

adv. construction vehicle: i cant get there

adv. construction vehicle: i cant get there

adv. construction vehicle: i cant get there

adv. construction vehicle: i cant get there

adv. construction vehicle: i cant get there

adv. construction vehicle: i cant get there

adv. construction vehicle: i cant get there

[daedcpl]

@dmo580 Lmao.. man. Good old days. This is still the best RTS I have ever played.

[TheCrackerBrony]

this was THE best rts of all time hands down

[Kaaxe]

miss these games? Might I suggest trying zero-k? It's scarily uknown but is based on these games and is constantly being updated and improved.

Yes it's a improvement of spring.

[akaGiNX]

one of my favourite games of all time , i cant tell how much hours i spent playing this EPIC game!!! :D uh so fun! CORE FTW!

[DarknessKing1337]

Nostalgic wars

[NodFlareon]

best music in any RTS ever

long live Total Annihilation

[gigamez84]

If you like the old TA, you have to try spring: a free rts game heavily inspired from the old TA!

[DasFunkwagen]

@gigamez84 is the community still strong? i used to play on SPRING a long time ago.

[TheModCon]

@gigamez84 I tried Spring but I didn't get on with it really, it was a great idea, but not executed well :O

[saristieno]

@TheModCon Well Spring is great, however only on multiplayer. It can suck tons of your time ;)

What it lacks is the campaigns and the music...

[MageofDarkness1984]

This music remembers a fantasy movie ending credits.

[MegaPoppy200]

Jeremy Soule needs to punch 6 people.

[Alimarin1]

@MegaPoppy200 Make that 7

[MegaPoppy200]

my fav soundtrack from the game. =D

[moutottahazunai]

My favorite part about Total Annihilation was that if someone "rushed" you, you could instantly blow their units away with your commander

BAM

[Kanefan2950]

i still have this game :D

[cmdrnmartin]

Total Annihilation gets even better with the "Escalation" Mod. Supreme Commander has nothing on TA.

[Thremle]

@cmdrnmartin NOSTALGIA GLASSES, NOSTALGIA GLASSES SO MUCH

[RTSDELTA]

So disappointed.

I want the game but I'm not sure if it'll run on Vista.

P.S. Awesome soundtrack

[rada660]

@RTSDELTA its run on it, since i got it myself ( plus the game is now free, just have to find it ) its run perfectly

[CptNorstedt]

@RTSDELTA it cant run on vista but W7 can handle it in full HD resolution >:D

[dnuofntsol]

I have yet to play another RTS since TA. Well... I tried TA Kingdoms, then went back TA =D

[jazcash]

@dnuofntsol SpringRTS

[SgtIronbeak]

This was my favorite song to play. xD

I always skipped to it.

[WhomToAsk]

The most intricate game soundtrack by then and maybe even till today. Really awesome!

[NodFlareon]

this game had the greasted music and the music was perfect for the mood, like this in during a fight and then the eary (spelling) quite music when there was no fighting

[long0800]

2 solar > 4 metal > 1 vehicle plant > 1 construction bot > 500 flash > 1 vehicle pland >600 flash > game over

[hopeyoulikehyper]

i love hearing this song it is so catchy

[shrelock]

@dracusLOLdracus This ain't no shit......... this is how game music should stay

[CmdrTobs]

Errr errr errr errrr (units under attack siren)

[DolzaB]

I loved this song so hard. The soundtrack for this game was awesome, and one of the first times I ever took the time to really listen to video game music.

[minecraftgoran]

the best strategi game fo 90s



[sirikalvik]

Thumbs up if you think we should drop Beethoven in school, and learn about Jeremy Soule instead.

[turnawry]

@sirikalvik Unfortunately we wouldn't have music like Jeremy's if it weren't for Beethoven. Jus sayin. But jesus Jeremy Soule is so damn underrated. What a genius!

[Ladiesman2177934]

@turnawry He's not underrated. He's the most famous game and movie componist in the world.

[Microchaton]

@Ladiesman2177934 not really, those would be Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Howard Shore... Much more known than Soule. I definitely think he's "under-known" if anything.

[Zanockthael]

@Ladiesman2177934 And yet, still underrated.

[Ladiesman2177934]

@Zanockthael No, not underrated. That's a fact, sorry.

[Zanockthael]

@Ladiesman2177934 It's not a fact, it's your opinion. :P

My opinion is that, no matter how many people think he's good, he will always be deserving of more, because he's just that good. ;)

[Ladiesman2177934]

@Zanockthael Nope, it's a fact. My opinion is quite the opposite, tbh.

[Multinevster]

I have the original game and wooped the oppoenents METAL BUTTS seriously

[GothicTainteD]

TOTAL ANNIHILATION! Where to start. The immence soundtrack, the weapons of REAL mass destruction, the sheer numbers of units, the fact that the recon units wreckage was still there as you wiped out your opponent (if they didn't reclaim it of course)

Yes this RTS by far outdoes any other to date, 13 years on and no one has come close! (imho)

[ow3nzed]

"so whats your favorite music? starwars?" me: starwars can suck it, TA FOREVER

[johannhowitzer]

@ow3nzed The two are incredibly similar. I'd say Williams was one of Soule's influences.

[tragicblackness]

I think I had an orgasm when I heard this just now.

[Mikester750]

Jeremy Soule is an amazing composer to be honest

[Ganthir]

Nothing compares to Total Annihilation!

[johannhowitzer]

@Ganthir Final Fantasy Tactics, maybe. Both games are just timeless.

[MujaRagHeadKillaUK]

Total Annihalation is the game that innovated RTS games into what they are now. I rate TA higher than even the legendary Dune2. Starcraft was good but had nothing on TA. Starcraft2=Starcraft1 but with better graphics and less on-line features.

[tragicblackness]

OMG! I love it!

[VodkaKnight]

IF YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TA DISCS PUT THEM IN THE CD PLAYER, SKIP TRACK 1, AND ENJOY.

[logen99999]

this music is on par with John Williams

[K1NGFR0G]

total annihilation was the first game to incorporate 3d gameplay (longer range at higher spots). This was indeed one of the greatest ever, hands down, plus it was an original concept, unlike starcraft which just ripped from WH40k

[iamborat100]

We hear of movies being described as "epics" due to the talent poured into such a film and usually the near 100% positive reviews, TA is such a game

[uomandood777]

This was by far the greatest of the battle music I think

[Moraltomten]

I remember myself playing the demo over and over before I got the real game. At the second mission as ARM, when you were to destroy the Kbot lab, I instead converted every single one of the Core forces and buildings apart from that Kbot Lab so I could continue playing forever :)

[Darthcaboose87]

Music is so epic.

DA DA DA DA DAAH, trumpets blaring and everything is going KABLOOEH!

[FarthingFury]

Man, this brings back memories of 1999 and me watching my brother do the Gateway to Thelassian mission or what it was called (mission 5 for the Arm), this playing as his forces stormed the Core base in an desperate fight.

You dont get memories like that in modern gaming.

[apacheslim]

I dont think supreme commander lives up to toal annihilation in music and character

[Moraltomten]

@apacheslim It doesn't. not the same feeling at all! I don't say it's bad, but not many games can be compared with TA and it's music.

[basstester]

@apacheslim SC wasnt as good as TA, for the plain reason, its was a money making game, TA was a real Game!!!! :)

[DracoMalfoy87]

Starcraft has things that are better outside of gameplay though: it has more people that play it, so you are more likely to be able to challenge a friend, it has battle.net, which makes it more convenient to play online. Also, SC has 3 distinct races

[Vrael473]

This song reminds me of my air patrols flying all over the map and then crushing whatever theyd run into. epic.

[MageofDarkness1984]

This song remember a fantasy film ending credits

[2metersbelow]

Best RTS ever, best game music ever, best game ever!

[viscyo]

I remember I thought i was so good at this game, but then I went to multiplayer back in the days of mplayer and Microsoft Zone and got my ass schooled. Definitely had to play this online to build the skills. This is an experience I will never forget.

[rustyspo0ns]

Muahahaha !

[asimov231]

d-gun com for TA info

[lenzorg]

i sucked so bad at this game lol.

[Tigerknigt]

MP TA anyone? could be lolz.

[OdinAlone]

Total annihilation rules!!!

[unnoon]

Best RTS of all time. 5/5

[DracoMalfoy87]

I think maybe if this game had become as popular as Starcraft or Warcraft then it would have been the best RTS...it just seemed like not enough people played TA and it didn't have anything as good as Battle.net to support it

[red244]

@DracoMalfoy87 TA is considered the game that made modern day RTS games. It recieved 100% good reviews and is the most unqie RTS game I ever played.

Starcraft is good but it's not done anything to help the industry really. They used typical technology and didn't be innovative unlike Cavedog. Starcraft and Warcraft are copys of Warhammer and WH40K. To the point they almost got sued by Games Workshop Ltd. The fact is Blizzard copy, they dont invent or innovate. Cavedog did both. TA is better.

[unnoon]

@red244

Starcraft is such a standard game, nothing special.

[johannhowitzer]

@red244 Have you read up on Blizzard's tactics lately? Their president or whatever explicitly stated his goal is to take the fun out of making games, to make it a business.

Sad part is, it's working.

[mikesentra]

@johannhowitzer Have you played Starcraft 2? Most fun I've had playing a game in years. Now WoW is another story...

[Mewiel]

@mikesentra Starcraft 2? Yeah, fun indeed, but i hate how it, and others mostly like it (Read C&C here) twist what words like tactics and strategy are meant to mean. They're not simulations, I know that, but rock/paper/scissor gameplay just isn't my kind of fun, even online x-].

That's why I've stuck with TA to this day, about a dozen years after it came out of cavedog's lair.

[WhiteTiger225]

@Mewiel Gotta love a game where planes fly up to an anti air turret..... tank every hit and over still infront of it shooting. In TA (Which came out 2 years before starcraft) your planes would swoop in, shoot, gtfo, rinse, and repeat instead of standing in place like a raging jackhorse XD

[rada660]

@Mewiel ever tryed the advanced game ( made by chris taylor aswell, since TA was made by him ) supreme commander 1 and 2? its the same base, mass ( metal ) extractor, power generator, and mass building army and big fight :)

[Mewiel]

@rada660

Yep, been there, done that.

But I don't really like the backstory of SC, TA's fanmade warstories where really great, they expanded the game in ways that let you imagine, especially one called Armageddon on Lasker IX.

[Ganthir]

@unnoon Absolutely!

[zackoberman]

@unnoon Yeah, that's why there are people who get payed 200,000 dollars a year to play that in south korea.... OH WAIT THAT'S JUST STARCRAFT

[Mechagriffen]

I think this is the first battle song, or seems to be the most "original" of the battle songs for me. It seems like every time I started combat on a map this is what played. So for me, although its not my favorite, it brings back the most TA memories.

Game was great!

[SPI014]

The first song I'd always hear on skirmish.

[robinleepowell]

@SPI014 That's because on the disc it's called "battle music #1".  I had no idea they had names. :D

[SPI014]

@robinleepowell It's excellent music. I missed it when I played Spring.

[TyriaelSoban]

nah, i just used to build tons and tons of destroyers and shredder / archer, back them up with sonar planes to keep an eye out for ADV torpedo launchers, keep them moving so unguided weapons miss more frequently, worked quite well most of the time, i didnt bother with battleships on hydross.

[darthbandon10]

I prefer cruisers over destroyers, they build faster too ;-)

[TyriaelSoban]

how is that possible?

cruiser is t2 ... destroyer is t1

[darthbandon10]

Cruiser uses something like 18 metal\sec to build, destroyer is about 6 (Adv Shipyard builds faster). Thus the destroyer takes over 2 minutes to build, and the cruiser is done in about 100 seconds.

[TyriaelSoban]

ah yes, but you still need to field the resources to put up a adv yard ...

which i found was better spent protecting myself till i needed AA units.

[darthbandon10]

I reclaimed the basic one and used the construction sub from the adv shipyard to build an underwater fusion plant to fuel metal makers :)

[TyriaelSoban]

now you see, i tried that ...

and i got swamped ... every time i took down my basic yard, i lost the game, no matter how well i prepared for it.

and yeah, i did use the reactors to fuel huge farms of FMM's.

[darthbandon10]

On Hard? Tried using a pack of subs with some scout ships for AA?

[TyriaelSoban]

couldnt get skeeters and searchers to hit jack sh*t ... lol, even with full radar coverage from a carrier.

[darthbandon10]

What about the L2 ships? No joy with those either?

[TyriaelSoban]

it was a matter of surviveing long enough to get a l2 shipyard up though after reclaiming my basic one.

[darthbandon10]

Hmm, maybe when I get a chance I'll reinstall TA and CC :p

[ShatteredAxis]

Isn't the Frigate T1 and the Cruiser and Desty both T2?

[TyriaelSoban]

nope, cruiser is t2, destroyer is t1

[patchhacker]

...Err...theres no frigates, and theres no t2 ships theres just a falt tree for them since they cost so much m, making a t2 fact for them would just make naval harder to use then it already is.

[TyriaelSoban]

the only mission in total A i couldnt finish was the extra one that cavedog added in 3.1 ... "Krogoth Encounter"

[TyriaelSoban]

from what i can remember SIM latency is created when units enter the field ... the more units, the more calculations need to be done for pathing etc ... the only thing i cant understand is why it dosnt go away when you blow the AI's up.

[harlequin2262]

Perfect soundtrack, but the basic gameplay was often that of a fairly generic RTS. SC got BIG. You really felt like you were fighting for a large region, with massive amounts of forces.

[kingdavey90]

If anything could sum up this game, this song would be it.

[slasheh]

aaaaatttttttackkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk­kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk­kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!

[Phylopn]

I have an original copy of this game (2 discs), found it after some time in great condition. Installed it, started it, but it doesn't play music with skirmish or campaign, it says "No disc" in the music menu. What's the deal?! Can anyone help, please? (running on Vista)

[99hallr]

you can play the music on media player off the cd while playing the game its not ideal but it works

[Phylopn]

Just found the solution, it's because I had another drive installed (deamon tools) and Total Annihilation (with music) can only be installed on the lowest letter drive for some reason, while deamon tools had a lower letter drive, so I had to delete that program. Works fine now! Thanks anyway.

[rgsgt]

this game is the shit!! Brings back memories

[scar104]

And I thought I was the only TA player in existence, I love this game to death.

[ReleeSquirrel]

I had forgotten how good the music from that game was!

[GWKportfolio]

You reddit guys are so bad after all.

[polidic]

OMG I didn't know it was still alive... I wish I had a copy now...

[MujaRagHeadKillaUK]

type springRTS in google and download the SpringRTS engine. Then down load the XTA mod, its just like the original but with better graphics,bigger maps,deformable terrain, more units etc..

[slonjo]

Hell yeah. I love this game. Still play it every now and again. Skirmish and multiplayer with the old clan.

[JRCrowley]

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within

watch?v=FukVZZ7HB70

[Asexynerd]

I remember playing this on my 300mhz 64mb ram with a ati rage pro video card LOL. It was before gamespy took over MPLAYER. OMG the memories :)

[Asdam12]

Hahaha, I played on a system only slightly newer that that! lol

[bloodqc]

You can play TA free with the springrts

[picardshero]

it has a stargate/starwars feel to it.

[ramgarden]

I dug out my copy of Total Annihiliation and the Core Contingency expansion. I'm going to play it TONIGHT.

[harper247]

aaaah this sondtrack makes me hard

[supaflyjohnson]

Best RTS ever made.

[chapmasi]

oh my word does this take me back!

thanks for uploading :)

[musicalcharge]

Probably some of the best game music ever.

[magicwalnuts]

Sounds like the new Star Trek theme song

[megaMuffinZ]

Total A was the 1997 game of the year, and it had tons of websites, but now that supreme commander came out all the Total A websites are down.

[mightydavefish]

Which sucks, because Supreme Commander blows compared to TA with mod packs.

[willd3rbeast]

I love this game, I want to play it again, but i can never get a working version :(

[IAlmostEnjoiSkating]

this is the best game everrrr... im gonna go buy it off ebay...

[TheEvilStarOo]

Total Annihilation deserved a bigger audience.

Or maybe I'm just wrong and Youtube views on a game means nothing.

[cwlithium]

for some reason this reminds me more of christmas music than battle music.

well, at least it's epic christmas music

[jtno2]

I still wonder how the heck they got Jeremy Soule to do the soundtrack to a computer game! This is really epic movie quality.

[PissingInAction]

you best be trollin nigger! TA was his second game soundtrack after Secret Of Evermore, this guy almost exclusively does video games.

[amitamit2]

don't forget about friggin GUILD WARS!!! he rocks there too!

[cmeast]

He also generously wrote the music for Natural Selection, a free mod for the original half life (which was insanely awesome).

[leemcdeviant]

NS could have been so much more, it's a shame they never took the idea and made it a professional release.

More of an RTS focus like the engineer in TF2 would have been cool.

[Omnicast]

Great music still kicks so much ass after all these years. Btw I HATE Youtubes fucking shitty rating system. You can't undo your rating if you made a mistake.

[Nicko93]

Don't worry, rating means nothing ^^

[Spookyd88]

yh dont worry i did 5 stars for you :-D

[Romes944]

I STILL play it... I already lost count of how many extra copies I've made of it!!

[jcw023]

omfg this game changed my life lmfao i wish i still had the cd and it worked i'd be playing now =p definitly one of the greatest games of all time...did anyone ever download those patches? oh they fucking rocked.

[rokomala8]

why dont any of you guys still play?

[primordialoddity]

oh god the memories....

[Trexboss]

This song always makes me think of brawlers beating the shit of of core intimidators with those peewee guns.

[kingdavey90]

The peewee guns made arm SOO much better than core. Peewee>AK. Flash>Instigator. Brawler VS Rapier = debatable :)

(yeah i played this game way too much)

[Haseo190]

Helll no kingdavey90, if I remember correctly Core had this robot, I think it was called the Krogoth or Korgoth? (refresh my memory) it kicked all ass, but my disc was messed up and maybe Arms had it too?

[Trexboss]

Krogoth only came in the expansion pack so he doesnt count

[Hypertorch]

yea Krogoth was only in the expansion and he was the shit raping everything in sight, it took an entire platoon of tanks and heavy infantry to take him down. massive armor count. but yea man this game was my childhood. me and my dad played it ALOT

[Romes944]

Kargoneth?

[destructorrv]

But Goliaths and Guardians was much more better than ARM!!!

[bobbystar101]

nah the core machine guns owned arm.

[b1gbird001]

Arm Resists.

i still love this game, wish they'd make a complete 3d version of it (i don't mean Supreme Commander or Spring) and then re-release it. I'd buy it =]

[knightsnblades]

all the songs i remember

that tells u somthing

[knightsnblades]

omg this makes me sad because i loved this game sooo mutch =:{ i want to play it but i cant!

[robotmaster123]

TA is always the best!!!

[Hiena184]

TA have got verry verry... good music Im not happy becuse Ta is The End.

[Trexboss]

Play total annihilation:spring, it is a free download from the net

[harlequin2262]

Ah, that's where you're wrong.

My friend, I point you towards SUPREME COMMANDER.

It's Total Annihilation with a better interface. Same head designer. EXACT same gameplay. But more elegant, and with new graphics.