ahhh.... this made me cry...because i remember when i was a kid..me and my dad we used to Vs each other at this....simple..yet..Amazingly complex game..and now..my dad has passed...i can no longer enjoy the amazing gameplay of TA...nuff said :'(
@Simon9819 It has the core contingency and battle tactics expansions, as well as the additional cavedog units that you can download for free. Check on TA Universe for more info.
yeah i still play total annihilation online but only the original version of the game if you want to know how to get the game and play it online look at my video i made that shows you step by step
@dattHoppi ya. I tried last year and i went pretty far in core campaign. But arm is probably the most troubling after you leave their homeplanet. I cant build fast enough! The cruisers keep catching me!
haha i remember this, the very first time i played i didnt know that the commander explodes badly, so he went boom in the middle of my base and my whooole base went with him hahaha
@colony343 At one point, Infogrames owned the rights to TA and licensed the name to Phantagram in 2002 or 2003 to develop a new game under the name, but nothing ever came of that. The Infogrames retained the rights to the game and eventually passed it to Atari. That is where it stands right now, with Atari as the nameholder. This is why Chris Taylor had to approach Atari to attempt to get the rights to make Supcom part of the TA franchise, but was unable to do so.
WARZONE, which has allready been mentioned and its also the most popular at the moment. its based around the old MSN Game Zone.
or
PHOENIX WORX, which isnt as popular but gives greater depth to the online universe by re-creating the Galatic war of 1998 take a look at their site and youll see what i mean.
SupCom (Supreme Commander) is NOT the next in the series after TA, in fact TA and SupCom are unrelated save for sharing a few developers and SupCom being touted as TA's spiritual successor. The TA IP is owned (now) by a Korean company who are releasing an OFFICIAL TA 2 at the Korean Games Expo in august THIS YEAR. Information translated off their page reveals they plan to release it in english in 2012.
@colony343 Supreme Commander is the spiritual sequel to Total Annihilation. The main developer, Chris Taylor, was behind both games and a lot of the development team remained the same. The storylines may be different, but the gameplay is nearly identical, so Supcom is TA2 in nearly every way but the name. The only reason it isn't named TA2 is that the publisher retained the rights to the name after Cavedog was shut down. GPG couldn't get the rights, so they used a different name.
@colony343 To add to what I said, Atari owns the rights to the game (through purchasing Infograms who purchased GTI), and they have no plans to release a sequel anytime soon. Even if someone decided to release a TA sequel, I wouldn't trust it unless it was Chris Taylor and the team who developed it, and considering the direction they took with Supcom 2 (which was disappointing), I'm not sure I'd trust them either. :D
@SylvesterInk I'd still trust Chris Taylor and GPG. I think the problem with SupCom 2's "failure" can be attributed to Square Enix. They did develop that game in partnership. Just look at the character designs. They could have incorporated Final Fantasy-like designs and CGI cutscenes, but didn't. Re: gameplay, GPG had great ideas, but didn't execute them well. Plus the fact that they removed some mechanics of the original. But yeah, I'd go with Chris rather some Korean developer.
@gmdimaano Yeah, that is true. I'm not too crazy about what I've seen of Kings and Castles so far, as it seems to be using a lot of the SupCom 2 mechanics, but as always, I'll just have to see how the game is when it's released. For now, SupCom:FA and TA remain my mainstays.
@colony343 I realise you're probably not going to be able to, but can you message me with more information? I would happily pay with my testicles for another TA.
To all u plp who want to play Total Annihilation Online just google up --- d gun --- in the internet and where it says "installation u click there and it takes u to the download page. "its an all in one small file that has everything to play TA online...
@hopeyoulikehyper Rather assumes you have anything to build with. Additionally, the sort of late-game infrastructure you speak of is expensive to build, and too easy to rely upon. It must be backed up with level one production, which must be distributed, and therefore is not as easy to destroy in one attack. The build cost for equivalent production is about the same at any tech level.
i was like 9 when my family got our first computer and this came with it or somthing. i install it and love it immediatly. this game is so good my dad used to play it and hes an anti game person. im 15 now
4:50 makes me cringe a bit. I know this is anal and you had numerical superiority, but advancing rocket troops against light and medium tanks is a bad idea. Keep your distance and use range to your advantage. This will reduce the firing rate of the adversary and reduce your losses. Waste not, want not.
wait... what? You can command more than one unit at a time on SC, wtf game are you playing? Don't get me wrong, I love TA, its a fun game, but SC is a better quality game. It actually has a good story.
Remember this game back in the days when we got our first computer, this came along and I played it as soon as i managed to get it instaled (and figured out what it was :P). It realy stands out from other RTS and is hard to beat, not even starcraft it self can take the throne from Total Annihilation IMO.
Recomend people to ry it becous it truly is unique and great in menny ways
im pretty sure the Big Bertha is the longest ranged turret, and it is definately my favorite!.
when i was young and this game was new i remember playing skirmish and making several big berthas in one location making an unstoppable ground defense.
soo many memories, i wish i still had this game :(
Starcraft and TA are different classes of RTS. The longest SC game I ever saw between two good players was about 45 minutes, and that was only because for the last 15 minutes there were no more resources and it was a standoff. Total A 'IS' more about micro/macro management. How can anyone not agree? SC is a game of draughts, TA is chess. Both great games.
Yeah, terrible economy in general. But remember, this isn't really a video of how to play with the best strategy/build/etc. It's just a video of what a nifty game TA is. For the good replays, everyone goes to sites like TAUniverse and so forth.
u my boy, know absolutely nothing about a grand and truly epic strategy game which is total annihilation. most if not all fully "new" and 3d strategy games don't come close to what total annihilation has acheived in terms of grand battles and macrostrategy.
Please tell me if im wrong: It seems to me, as though TA requires a lot less speed to effectively pump out units than Starcraft does. In Starcraft, even half decent players are going to move faster than in TA.
This isn't an indicator of skill, but it makes us marvel even more at seeing the progamers make extremely great tactical and strategical moves, because we know the skill already required to macro at the rate they do.
That's the point of TA, and even of its spiritual sequel, Supreme Commander. Why waste your time micromanaging to pump out your army when you could be focusing on the battles themselves. With TA you just queue up a ton of units, your building structure, and so forth and then focus on how you're going to take down the enemy. This is especially important since TA and Supcom are more strategy-based games and Starcraft is a more micromanagement-based game (along with some tactics).
I think SC is the superior game in all regards. What you refer to as micromanagement(expanding, gaining more resources and unit production) is actually called macromanagement or 'macro'. It takes incredible skill to macro perfectly. Then there's 'micro' which is actual unit control in individual battles. Once again this takes great skill. Great players can macro and micro well at the same time. Just look at some pro games here on youtube and you'll see what I mean :)
Well, I won't deny that SC has some intense micro (some Tactics) involved, but the macro (which encompasses Strategy and some Tactics) is a bit more involved in TA. There's a bigger focus on the overall plan, and less on a paper/scissor/rock tactic. This is further improved in SupCom, which not only allows for a larger field of strategy, but adds in basic logistics. SC also has the disadvantage of being too much of a war of attrition, since it has limited resources.
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There's a reason why Starcraft is considered a sport and TA isn't. Pros get paid 6 figures a year to play SC. The reason is because SC is so hard to master. The harder a game is to master, the greater it is. They're clearly different games and I don't deny that. And I would think that the whole reason that SC isn't a war of attrition is BECAUSE it has limited resources. SC = best RTS ever.
iv got this game but when i play single player i find the pc commander comes into my base so my units kill him,i think it spoils the game so i set it to continue if commander dies but then the computer doesnt build anything and its to easy.also the battle and victory misic does no longer work on my game on the options it just says no cd,can anyone help?
i think i can try to get it to work ill just delete evrything with it and reinstall but is that cc ur playing or bt? or sumthin else? ima save up for them so wen i get them i challenge sum1 here to some battles
thers a map called color chaos idk if u heard of it but i put it on hard and put as many against me as i can. its hard in the beggining cuz they swarmthe shit out of u and u barely make it if ur skilled half as good as i am but after u kill all there mobile offensives they build nuthin but air defense and production plants. but yea i kik ass if i could multiplayer i would. im stuck with original and it stopped working so that bites
total annihilation is awesome and so is the musical score. Shame in core contigency theres nothing that the arm has no kbot that can match the krogoth so it seems a little inbalanced, though ya can download 1,000 of units now of TAuniverse so it dosnt really matter. P.S that wasnt a flame just a statement.
I definitely don't see any strategy here. You move guys forward and win. Add that to the fact that microing is really hard/useless and you have a game with nothing to be good at but massing. RTS games are more conducive to micro than strategy, and when they have neither they suck. The only RTS I've played that I would say is very strategic was Rome Total War, and that was totally different. So, yeah, TA, definitely not strategic. Maybe Supreme Commander is, I'll have to check it out.
Your right to a certain point if its against the AI (which is pretty good as far as AI goes) but against a player this game is very strategic, you can employ tactics like feints/diversionary attacks, large scale flanking maneouvers and theres a huge range of military forces to assist on tactical decisions. From long range artillery to the air force.
I have a similar story to yours lol. I now own three copies of this and have many lan battles. Played since 6 yrs old. In fact I have played video games since I was 2.
Exactly. In a real game I wouldn't be leaving myself open like I did here. I'd also be using a different building order. However, against the AI I can better show off the various features of TA without worry.
You keep the enemy busy like that, especially when the enemy starts with an huge advantage on you, like in lvl 25: empyreans final stand. the tanks and stuff will be 'eaten' by the big bertha's so I 'feed' tanks to keep them 'happy'. In the meanwhile I am researching technologies, building intimidators and destroy the enemy.
To joel18433: He's Arm noob!! For SylvesterInk: And why would you introduce this to newcomers, the game can't be bought anymore, only on ebay, but nobody does that alright?? Better try to entertain the experienced players, or people that have the game.
to many solar plants and what about geothermal, fusion,wind and wave generators? no moho mines? no nukes? you also need to get some more base defence that will protect your whole base instead of portions. gaat guns are pretty good to. you also need a vehicle plant because you can get diplomats that protect the whole field I kid you not. although it is kind of good that you got that long range thing, but their is a better one than that. yes it pretty much could hit anything on this map.
As I've explained several times, I took it slow to make it easier for new players to understand. I could do the whole vehicle plant -> tons of samsons/flashes thing, but frankly, that makes the game boring. Also, I had limited playtime, due to limited HD space to record. There wasn't enough time to whip out Berthas, etc. Trust me folks, I've been playing since '97. I don't need strategy tips. :D
ok just checken some people don't really know how to put up a third layer of defense on huge maps. For a more advanced idea of the game first line of defences are moving units laser/missle towers, doomsday devices. second line missle towers, I said this twice because sometime the missle towers overlap to hit the very begining of the first layer. diplomats mobile artillary. third layer berth's nuclear missles and missle towers to protect from air.
rubbish, I always put cheap missile towers on the front, and some punishers, and then I let some tanks or what patrolling in front of them, it is also handy to put some mobile artillery next to your misile towers etc. and a wall of dragons teeth ofcourse, then you have to build missile towers everywhere in your base and some radar jammers are handy two
This game is awesome because every attack is individually calculated, and damage depends on height, movement, etc... you can even dodge stuff with micro. But the game never made it big because its too complex. Learning curve is too steep.
Hot damn if this game doesn't have the best soundtrack ever made by Jeremy Soule. It's just perfect.
Thanks for the vid SylvesterInk. I've been playing this game for almost ten years now, and I'm not planning on stopping anytime soon. Best. RTS. Ever.
I'd never even heard of TA until a month or so ago...now I'm addicted to it, and drooling in anticipation of Supreme Commander. Why is TA so little known, while shit games like Starcraft are so popular?
Lol i remembered when i first played this game in something like 2001 (possibly even earlier i think), it was like THE RTS at the time. Now look at games, Supreme Commander, made by the same guys who made TA, looks awesome.
ahhh.... this made me cry...because i remember when i was a kid..me and my dad we used to Vs each other at this....simple..yet..Amazingly complex game..and now..my dad has passed...i can no longer enjoy the amazing gameplay of TA...nuff said :'(
ROckeTPals21 1 month ago
which version of TA is this, because i have the first one and i don't some units that you're building. so please tell me
Simon9819 2 months ago
@Simon9819 It has the core contingency and battle tactics expansions, as well as the additional cavedog units that you can download for free. Check on TA Universe for more info.
SylvesterInk 2 months ago
This must be me vs. my dad, me being core :/
BenGeocth 5 months ago
@jericoparazo Yeah, starcraft sucks XD
BenGeocth 5 months ago
It looks like you own most of the map.
BenGeocth 5 months ago
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yeah i still play total annihilation online but only the original version of the game if you want to know how to get the game and play it online look at my video i made that shows you step by step
thebrain678 6 months ago
Downloading right now! Brilliant!
HugoBoss050 7 months ago
The soundtrack in the game will always be number 1!!
SouthParkMan15 9 months ago
donde consigo este juego en quito ecuador¿?¿?¿?
jsonldu 10 months ago
Wow such memories i have coming back to me from hearing this music. Epic
BountyUFC 11 months ago
haha 1:07 "NO, MY BUILDING SPOT"
AirTrackerGAMES 1 year ago
Ah, I just started playing this again... isn't nearly as hard as I remembered it :)
dattHoppi 1 year ago
@dattHoppi ya. I tried last year and i went pretty far in core campaign. But arm is probably the most troubling after you leave their homeplanet. I cant build fast enough! The cruisers keep catching me!
MrColeknows 11 months ago
@MrColeknows I think the secret to winning in the Arm Campaign is plain turtling... I surround my base with two to three rows of missile towers ;)
dattHoppi 11 months ago
haha i remember this, the very first time i played i didnt know that the commander explodes badly, so he went boom in the middle of my base and my whooole base went with him hahaha
Raducu2oo5 1 year ago
to je tak nejuasnejsi hra na svete fakt :)
petr2234 1 year ago
what recording program did you use? i cant find one that gets both sound and video :/
ow3nzed 1 year ago
Wow! The music is really great. *thumbs up*
Kosake82 1 year ago
Atari dont own the rights to it. "Phantagram Ltd. (판타그램)" own the name. or did as of 2002.
colony343 1 year ago
@colony343 At one point, Infogrames owned the rights to TA and licensed the name to Phantagram in 2002 or 2003 to develop a new game under the name, but nothing ever came of that. The Infogrames retained the rights to the game and eventually passed it to Atari. That is where it stands right now, with Atari as the nameholder. This is why Chris Taylor had to approach Atari to attempt to get the rights to make Supcom part of the TA franchise, but was unable to do so.
SylvesterInk 1 year ago
A couple of posts just about the TA series and TA Online:
colony343 1 year ago
To play TA online i would recommend 2 programs:
WARZONE, which has allready been mentioned and its also the most popular at the moment. its based around the old MSN Game Zone.
or
PHOENIX WORX, which isnt as popular but gives greater depth to the online universe by re-creating the Galatic war of 1998 take a look at their site and youll see what i mean.
colony343 1 year ago
SupCom (Supreme Commander) is NOT the next in the series after TA, in fact TA and SupCom are unrelated save for sharing a few developers and SupCom being touted as TA's spiritual successor. The TA IP is owned (now) by a Korean company who are releasing an OFFICIAL TA 2 at the Korean Games Expo in august THIS YEAR. Information translated off their page reveals they plan to release it in english in 2012.
colony343 1 year ago
@colony343 Supreme Commander is the spiritual sequel to Total Annihilation. The main developer, Chris Taylor, was behind both games and a lot of the development team remained the same. The storylines may be different, but the gameplay is nearly identical, so Supcom is TA2 in nearly every way but the name. The only reason it isn't named TA2 is that the publisher retained the rights to the name after Cavedog was shut down. GPG couldn't get the rights, so they used a different name.
SylvesterInk 1 year ago
@colony343 To add to what I said, Atari owns the rights to the game (through purchasing Infograms who purchased GTI), and they have no plans to release a sequel anytime soon. Even if someone decided to release a TA sequel, I wouldn't trust it unless it was Chris Taylor and the team who developed it, and considering the direction they took with Supcom 2 (which was disappointing), I'm not sure I'd trust them either. :D
SylvesterInk 1 year ago
@SylvesterInk I'd still trust Chris Taylor and GPG. I think the problem with SupCom 2's "failure" can be attributed to Square Enix. They did develop that game in partnership. Just look at the character designs. They could have incorporated Final Fantasy-like designs and CGI cutscenes, but didn't. Re: gameplay, GPG had great ideas, but didn't execute them well. Plus the fact that they removed some mechanics of the original. But yeah, I'd go with Chris rather some Korean developer.
gmdimaano 7 months ago
@gmdimaano Yeah, that is true. I'm not too crazy about what I've seen of Kings and Castles so far, as it seems to be using a lot of the SupCom 2 mechanics, but as always, I'll just have to see how the game is when it's released. For now, SupCom:FA and TA remain my mainstays.
SylvesterInk 7 months ago
@colony343 I realise you're probably not going to be able to, but can you message me with more information? I would happily pay with my testicles for another TA.
lemonspoon11 1 year ago
To all u plp who want to play Total Annihilation Online just google up --- d gun --- in the internet and where it says "installation u click there and it takes u to the download page. "its an all in one small file that has everything to play TA online...
lydiasoto 1 year ago
@ noclipgmoder
Yeah your right
i'v got this game
and it looks like it
like the way you build and stuff like that
and their all robots
Ps this is the best rts ever
109666games 2 years ago
"(And maybe even draw you away from an inferior Blizzard RTS . . .)" i agree :)
shatterhandeve 2 years ago
if you guys notice o nthe supreme commander case it say total annihlation:supreme commander
P.S guys this is total annihlation 1
noclipgmoder 2 years ago
it was asome but not like games to day its he killed my bro or i killed his bro no it was just kick rthe other dudes ass as hand as possible
xdiexmanx 2 years ago
Why D-gun the Core metal extractors, only to build your own? Capture them for free!
briananthonyronald 2 years ago
Well duh, cause explosions are cool! :D
SylvesterInk 2 years ago 3
Maby because its looks kinda awsume :D
hangenent 2 years ago
yeah, because the graphics are really impressive.. must be why people are still playing it in 2009
psyclog 2 years ago
@briananthonyronald why even build basic extractors build energy producers and then get moho mines
hopeyoulikehyper 1 year ago
@hopeyoulikehyper Rather assumes you have anything to build with. Additionally, the sort of late-game infrastructure you speak of is expensive to build, and too easy to rely upon. It must be backed up with level one production, which must be distributed, and therefore is not as easy to destroy in one attack. The build cost for equivalent production is about the same at any tech level.
briananthonyronald 1 year ago
It was a brilliant, brilliant idea and okay execution. It was a great game. With medium amount of improvements it could have been simply perfect.
Oh, and the soundtrack will be one of the best for eternity.
VantekHG 2 years ago 4
I think most of those improvements were in Supreme Commander. :D
SylvesterInk 2 years ago
I remember playing this game back in 2nd grade.
My CD broke and I couldn't play it anymore. D:
Tonyle414side 2 years ago 3
during gameplay press enter, and type in one of the codes (must type in the add sign everytime you use code):
+nowisee - you can see enemy and everything
+atm - 1000 free energy and metal
+doubleshot - stronger weapon attack
more players in single skirmish: in skirmish settings, just type in: *(and a roman numeral and dont press space after the *)
imCrippin408 2 years ago
wow
sackbuilder 2 years ago
I remember this game and TA (Total Annihilation) kingdoms
Haku1234567890 2 years ago 2
i avant played dis game in ages
playstationrulz9 2 years ago 2
The peewee robots were the best.
landyowner 2 years ago 5
i can play this game but i cant use conflict crusher because it wont download(work) on a vista any suggestioons?
dreadhound456 2 years ago
amazin game i used 2 luv this wen i was a bairn
xleesafcx 2 years ago
/explodes from nostalgia
DethPenguin 2 years ago
any one if this would work on vista? becase my friends wants it
predailen123 2 years ago
i dont think so...
it wont work on my XP :S
perka7777 2 years ago
yes you can! :P
marshallnn 2 years ago
i dont know man... :S
i can start the game, it wont crash.. but its going waaayy too slow and it keeps stopping :(( :S
perka7777 2 years ago
Total Annihilation was one of the games that sparked my gaming career.
TheEvilStarOo 2 years ago
mine 2, definitly :D
GabberprinceNL 2 years ago
i was like 9 when my family got our first computer and this came with it or somthing. i install it and love it immediatly. this game is so good my dad used to play it and hes an anti game person. im 15 now
merlin3695 2 years ago 4
4:50 makes me cringe a bit. I know this is anal and you had numerical superiority, but advancing rocket troops against light and medium tanks is a bad idea. Keep your distance and use range to your advantage. This will reduce the firing rate of the adversary and reduce your losses. Waste not, want not.
NoOne3234 2 years ago
I played this when I was 7, and to make things even wierder, i beat the game at that age XD
Im still playing this game even tho im 14 cause I just love this so much. Who knew a old game became a legend.
and no EA, you can't remake Total Annihilation, you already fucked the C&C series up.
rysnyper50002 3 years ago 5
Although people fight over which is better (TA vs SupCom), they're more or less the same, just SupCom takes it further than what you got with TA.
Probably going to get so much flak for this, but I personally think SupCom is more advanced, an yeah, better.
Theres just all the right things in SupCom that makes it more tactical, an managing units into groups an such is so much easier...
something that I found to be a problem with in TA.
However, I DO love TA, an it'll always be one of my fav.
c0dehx 2 years ago
Supcom is great, one of my favorite RTS games, if not my #1, its in my top 3. Cant wait for Supcom 2
oathkeeperr 2 years ago
Do you have xfire? I'll deffenatley have a game or two :D
c0dehx 2 years ago
wtf r u talkin bout?
LotusX2 2 years ago
Huh?
c0dehx 2 years ago
This game was my childhood, no kidding.
enoching7 3 years ago 3
In Total annihilation is one of the best soundtrack music I have ever heard!!!.Supreme commander also has beautiful soundtrack ;].
lavrenzo84 3 years ago
my favorite infantry are, the peewees, and zippers
kevinbarnett 3 years ago
Mine's the Maverick, just love it when they pull out their guns!
janerga 3 years ago
This music is like StarWars music, but better.
hellomisterjefferson 3 years ago
do you know what the song's title of 3:27 was? it's been, wow, 7 or 8 years since i last touched this game.
enoching7 3 years ago
i dont like Starcraft cause u can only comman ONE unit at a time! TA pwns SC. BTW the music in TA rocks
invaderzim908 3 years ago
wait... what? You can command more than one unit at a time on SC, wtf game are you playing? Don't get me wrong, I love TA, its a fun game, but SC is a better quality game. It actually has a good story.
JoeyMontanaMang 3 years ago
no u can't ive played it b4.
invaderzim908 2 years ago
Maybe if you're mentally retarded. Enjoy being mentally retarded! :D
JoeyMontanaMang 2 years ago
LOLLLLL!!!
urmon135 2 years ago
ya i dont know how you have played sc an say u can only controll 1 unit
urmon135 2 years ago
Remember this game back in the days when we got our first computer, this came along and I played it as soon as i managed to get it instaled (and figured out what it was :P). It realy stands out from other RTS and is hard to beat, not even starcraft it self can take the throne from Total Annihilation IMO.
Recomend people to ry it becous it truly is unique and great in menny ways
HenrikAH92 3 years ago 2
That would be the Punishers rite? :D
Zaleon90 3 years ago
im pretty sure the Big Bertha is the longest ranged turret, and it is definately my favorite!.
when i was young and this game was new i remember playing skirmish and making several big berthas in one location making an unstoppable ground defense.
soo many memories, i wish i still had this game :(
barrypothead 3 years ago
well the music no one can deny it, its one of the bets music in ANNY rts game
saxorsaxofon88 3 years ago
best game ever .. downloading it now :P
knarkis90 3 years ago
Starcraft and TA are different classes of RTS. The longest SC game I ever saw between two good players was about 45 minutes, and that was only because for the last 15 minutes there were no more resources and it was a standoff. Total A 'IS' more about micro/macro management. How can anyone not agree? SC is a game of draughts, TA is chess. Both great games.
iris030380 3 years ago
my enrgy get's used directly!!
Vaderfan0307 3 years ago
Damn i'm almost crying when i hear that music it's so perfect.
afgncap 3 years ago 2
way to waste metal all game XD
Lupy501 3 years ago
Yeah, terrible economy in general. But remember, this isn't really a video of how to play with the best strategy/build/etc. It's just a video of what a nifty game TA is. For the good replays, everyone goes to sites like TAUniverse and so forth.
SylvesterInk 3 years ago
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the guy ur playing sucks...lol
LarryTheSwanson 3 years ago
I think its a computer he's versing.
fluffykittenear 3 years ago 4
the best song starts somewhere at 3:17 in this vid
perka7777 3 years ago
omg i love this game...
nice explosions...
truly rts!
perka7777 3 years ago
just got this game, its sweet i cant stop playing.
runeballer 3 years ago 5
do you now a good download site
lgrazy 3 years ago
how get im to tech 3
lgrazy 3 years ago
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this is a fuckin 2D
bozy99 3 years ago
The terrain is 2D with 3D height values and the units and effects are all rendered in 3d.
SylvesterInk 3 years ago
plus this game was relest in 1997 so give a break
tomthelad123 3 years ago 11
u my boy, know absolutely nothing about a grand and truly epic strategy game which is total annihilation. most if not all fully "new" and 3d strategy games don't come close to what total annihilation has acheived in terms of grand battles and macrostrategy.
davstarpro 3 years ago 17
Seriously, learn that good games come from the past. :)
BlankShadowz 3 years ago
qualcuno sa come si fa a gicare a total multigiocatore?
nejitennisvegeta 3 years ago
Please tell me if im wrong: It seems to me, as though TA requires a lot less speed to effectively pump out units than Starcraft does. In Starcraft, even half decent players are going to move faster than in TA.
This isn't an indicator of skill, but it makes us marvel even more at seeing the progamers make extremely great tactical and strategical moves, because we know the skill already required to macro at the rate they do.
darolas 3 years ago
That's the point of TA, and even of its spiritual sequel, Supreme Commander. Why waste your time micromanaging to pump out your army when you could be focusing on the battles themselves. With TA you just queue up a ton of units, your building structure, and so forth and then focus on how you're going to take down the enemy. This is especially important since TA and Supcom are more strategy-based games and Starcraft is a more micromanagement-based game (along with some tactics).
SylvesterInk 3 years ago
I think SC is the superior game in all regards. What you refer to as micromanagement(expanding, gaining more resources and unit production) is actually called macromanagement or 'macro'. It takes incredible skill to macro perfectly. Then there's 'micro' which is actual unit control in individual battles. Once again this takes great skill. Great players can macro and micro well at the same time. Just look at some pro games here on youtube and you'll see what I mean :)
ahlavitschooner 3 years ago
Well, I won't deny that SC has some intense micro (some Tactics) involved, but the macro (which encompasses Strategy and some Tactics) is a bit more involved in TA. There's a bigger focus on the overall plan, and less on a paper/scissor/rock tactic. This is further improved in SupCom, which not only allows for a larger field of strategy, but adds in basic logistics. SC also has the disadvantage of being too much of a war of attrition, since it has limited resources.
SylvesterInk 3 years ago
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There's a reason why Starcraft is considered a sport and TA isn't. Pros get paid 6 figures a year to play SC. The reason is because SC is so hard to master. The harder a game is to master, the greater it is. They're clearly different games and I don't deny that. And I would think that the whole reason that SC isn't a war of attrition is BECAUSE it has limited resources. SC = best RTS ever.
ahlavitschooner 3 years ago
you guys should go to Total anialation universe and download warzone so you can play online
rokomala8 3 years ago
this game is so sweet i play it a lot
whetnap 3 years ago
me too ;)
Barzottone 3 years ago
iv got this game but when i play single player i find the pc commander comes into my base so my units kill him,i think it spoils the game so i set it to continue if commander dies but then the computer doesnt build anything and its to easy.also the battle and victory misic does no longer work on my game on the options it just says no cd,can anyone help?
richyloike 3 years ago
You need to install the game patch (version 3.1c). It fixes that problem.
sak777usa 3 years ago
oh right thanks :)
richyloike 3 years ago
Is this a skirmish or a campaign?
Soundwav1337 3 years ago
A 3-player skirmish on the map Sherwood.
SylvesterInk 3 years ago
i think i can try to get it to work ill just delete evrything with it and reinstall but is that cc ur playing or bt? or sumthin else? ima save up for them so wen i get them i challenge sum1 here to some battles
damodura 3 years ago
It's both, but all you really need is CC.
SylvesterInk 3 years ago
i better get that then. all that stuff looks fun with those big square plants.
damodura 3 years ago
thers a map called color chaos idk if u heard of it but i put it on hard and put as many against me as i can. its hard in the beggining cuz they swarmthe shit out of u and u barely make it if ur skilled half as good as i am but after u kill all there mobile offensives they build nuthin but air defense and production plants. but yea i kik ass if i could multiplayer i would. im stuck with original and it stopped working so that bites
damodura 3 years ago
thats not how u play when i play with bots i always win its not fun build a defence around use moho metal makers and then berthas
kaylasxy 3 years ago
total annihilation is awesome and so is the musical score. Shame in core contigency theres nothing that the arm has no kbot that can match the krogoth so it seems a little inbalanced, though ya can download 1,000 of units now of TAuniverse so it dosnt really matter. P.S that wasnt a flame just a statement.
daveywaveydave 3 years ago
if i was him id be capturing the core builders so i could build both core and arm forces
that way you dominate more
jessedoeslikeHiM 3 years ago
Brilliant music, whoever composed it for this game deserves more recognition as its as good as any high budget hollywood blockbusters.
Camilo83 4 years ago
I definitely don't see any strategy here. You move guys forward and win. Add that to the fact that microing is really hard/useless and you have a game with nothing to be good at but massing. RTS games are more conducive to micro than strategy, and when they have neither they suck. The only RTS I've played that I would say is very strategic was Rome Total War, and that was totally different. So, yeah, TA, definitely not strategic. Maybe Supreme Commander is, I'll have to check it out.
op908i 4 years ago
Your right to a certain point if its against the AI (which is pretty good as far as AI goes) but against a player this game is very strategic, you can employ tactics like feints/diversionary attacks, large scale flanking maneouvers and theres a huge range of military forces to assist on tactical decisions. From long range artillery to the air force.
Camilo83 3 years ago
mmm, so true
as for RTS games i think empire earth was great
same with number 2
jessedoeslikeHiM 3 years ago
i love this game...
jovik 4 years ago 2
I love this game! I played this game since I was a little kid...
jaguar004 4 years ago
I have a similar story to yours lol. I now own three copies of this and have many lan battles. Played since 6 yrs old. In fact I have played video games since I was 2.
Zephippz 4 years ago
lol same.. i started playing at 5 :D
simponsucks201 3 years ago
I played TA since when i was 7, Then my CD got screwd and poff away. After like 9years i found it on TPB got it and love it.
Arms: LOVE PEEWEES! Amazing graph, sound and animation. Most cool Commander also.
Core: Love their air force. Also the KARGOTH!(CC exp)
Vemoth92 4 years ago
Ummm he is doing ok but fighting AI and fighting a player are two diffrent things.
AI often only builds up and attacks only at later stages as for players you would be rushed as soon as 1 min into the game and they wont stop.
red244 4 years ago
Exactly. In a real game I wouldn't be leaving myself open like I did here. I'd also be using a different building order. However, against the AI I can better show off the various features of TA without worry.
SylvesterInk 4 years ago
setting up a border around your territory is smart
just build turrets around it will save you the hassel from scattering units around the place
coryrc1 4 years ago
And punishers are always necesary on bigger battles, so you'll need to have at least 3.
Sifurm 4 years ago
You keep the enemy busy like that, especially when the enemy starts with an huge advantage on you, like in lvl 25: empyreans final stand. the tanks and stuff will be 'eaten' by the big bertha's so I 'feed' tanks to keep them 'happy'. In the meanwhile I am researching technologies, building intimidators and destroy the enemy.
Sifurm 4 years ago
Goglatora is gone.
Sifurm 4 years ago
are there no short keys for buildings in this game?
FlipErik 4 years ago
There are, I just don't use them in this video.
SylvesterInk 4 years ago
To joel18433: He's Arm noob!! For SylvesterInk: And why would you introduce this to newcomers, the game can't be bought anymore, only on ebay, but nobody does that alright?? Better try to entertain the experienced players, or people that have the game.
goglatora 4 years ago
to many solar plants and what about geothermal, fusion,wind and wave generators? no moho mines? no nukes? you also need to get some more base defence that will protect your whole base instead of portions. gaat guns are pretty good to. you also need a vehicle plant because you can get diplomats that protect the whole field I kid you not. although it is kind of good that you got that long range thing, but their is a better one than that. yes it pretty much could hit anything on this map.
joel18433 4 years ago
As I've explained several times, I took it slow to make it easier for new players to understand. I could do the whole vehicle plant -> tons of samsons/flashes thing, but frankly, that makes the game boring. Also, I had limited playtime, due to limited HD space to record. There wasn't enough time to whip out Berthas, etc. Trust me folks, I've been playing since '97. I don't need strategy tips. :D
SylvesterInk 4 years ago
ok just checken some people don't really know how to put up a third layer of defense on huge maps. For a more advanced idea of the game first line of defences are moving units laser/missle towers, doomsday devices. second line missle towers, I said this twice because sometime the missle towers overlap to hit the very begining of the first layer. diplomats mobile artillary. third layer berth's nuclear missles and missle towers to protect from air.
joel18433 4 years ago
rubbish, I always put cheap missile towers on the front, and some punishers, and then I let some tanks or what patrolling in front of them, it is also handy to put some mobile artillery next to your misile towers etc. and a wall of dragons teeth ofcourse, then you have to build missile towers everywhere in your base and some radar jammers are handy two
Sifurm 4 years ago
I think you're doing pretty good. :)
Lichtenberg 4 years ago
Thank you. I appreciate that. :D
SylvesterInk 4 years ago
So you always use the samson/flash strategy? Better add some Peewee's, stumpy's and spiders to it, that's he best combination.
Sifurm 4 years ago
He does build Fusions in part 3 duh.
Sifurm 4 years ago
When I look at these comments, they are sometimes in the wrong order, very annoying.
goglatora 4 years ago
Supreme Commander is shit y have the makers who are shit in the vids play the game they need pros saying wtat is needed coz they did a bad job
GOTHWILLNEVERDIE 4 years ago
The makers of SupCom are the same as the makers of Total Annihilation.
You're a fucking idiot.
That being said, SupCom and TA are very different games, with a few similarities.
OMGBBQRIBS 4 years ago 2
ah, how i love those plasma batteries, i could stare at the screen for hours watching those pound away at incoming troops :)
Soladrin 4 years ago
This game is awesome because every attack is individually calculated, and damage depends on height, movement, etc... you can even dodge stuff with micro. But the game never made it big because its too complex. Learning curve is too steep.
Molari 4 years ago
Sadly, that looks to be the same with Supreme Commander. It's just too involved for some people. For the rest of us though . . . <3
SylvesterInk 4 years ago
Hot damn if this game doesn't have the best soundtrack ever made by Jeremy Soule. It's just perfect.
Thanks for the vid SylvesterInk. I've been playing this game for almost ten years now, and I'm not planning on stopping anytime soon. Best. RTS. Ever.
uremifasolasiutut 4 years ago
im soo nooby at this i play reall defensive right untill end then nothing can stand in my way (no work on hard enemy uses nukes and sh*t
denniskullik 4 years ago
lol i can kill any one on that i was the god of that game wen it wa son the net i won over 200 games and no los
GOTHWILLNEVERDIE 4 years ago
i've destroyed over 300. U think ur a god. Yeah right
yutao1 4 years ago
i can do this 100 times better
eso3 4 years ago
Being good at the game does not matter, just enjoying it so everyone lighten up a bit :)
fattyjosh 4 years ago
damn dude your no where near as good as i am lol
furton 4 years ago
This issue has been discussed as of my second comment in the first video. Read there for more information.
SylvesterInk 4 years ago
i love when commander blows up its like a nuke :P
lewisjones22 4 years ago
this game is a legend!
faggotcheese 5 years ago
I'd never even heard of TA until a month or so ago...now I'm addicted to it, and drooling in anticipation of Supreme Commander. Why is TA so little known, while shit games like Starcraft are so popular?
Maphysto 5 years ago
People tend to dumped it long ago because of high pc requirements. Probably StarCraft is more colorful that is why sissies loved it!
ildr2003 5 years ago
Lol i remembered when i first played this game in something like 2001 (possibly even earlier i think), it was like THE RTS at the time. Now look at games, Supreme Commander, made by the same guys who made TA, looks awesome.
aLpHaTemplar 5 years ago
how did u recorded this?
jeankepler 5 years ago
We're all TA lovers, must we insult each other? =/
OrcaCraft 5 years ago
i agree
yutao1 4 years ago
I love TA's battle music. You're actually really good at this game. A lot better than me. :P
strikeninja001 5 years ago
you must be noobish of the noob
unrealboot1 5 years ago
I don't play this game very much, unlike you. I do have a life you know.
strikeninja001 5 years ago
yeah don't insult him
yutao1 4 years ago