![]() ![]() This name was reused for an April Fool's Day joke in 1999, when Cavedog Entertainment supposedly had to rename all their trademarks, including the game's name, due to "a legal snafu with the U.S. While in development, before the name Total Annihilation was chosen, the game was referred to as Really Cool War Game. Seattle, WA, Octo- Total Annihilation, Cavedog Entertainment's groundbreaking 3-D real-time strategy game, was simultaneously launched in three languages and 14 countries on September 27, blasting more than 250,000 games into retail stores during its first month of release. Total Annihilation was a success for Cavedog: This group developed an open source engine that plays multiplayer Total Annihilation in full 3D. Among these is a group called Swedish Yankspankers. ![]() Total Annihilation has a massive base of users who customize and modify the game. Total Annihilation was based on an idea for a game project leader Chris Taylor first thought of at the age of 14. ![]() Total Annihilation appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott. Total Entertainment Network (TEN) multiplay platform.Symphonic Orchestra: Northwest Sinfonia.Replay (GT / Infogrames / Atari) releases.Resource collection is very quick and easy, since a single unit can extract metal indefinitely from a mine without ever having to return to your base, while options for producing energy include solar power, wind power, hydroelectric power, geothermal power, and fusion power. Unlike other strategy games, however, you start out with the Commander, the game's most powerful unit, and must defend him at all costs. Usually you must construct a base, although in some missions you lead an attacking force. Mission objectives range from taking out specific targets to rescuing hostages to capturing the enemy base and using it in the next mission. Unlike earlier titles in the genre, it uses a 3D world in which elevation changes have an effect. You, as the Commander of either Arm or Core, must build up your base to destroy the other side, in a game developing the ideas of Command & Conquer. The only acceptable outcome is total victory. Both sides fight on with super-advanced technology, from plasma guns to giant robots to sonar jammers. It is 4000 years in the future, and the epic battle between the Arm and the Core has devastated the galaxy. ![]()
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