Total Annihilation Reviews

Great game from many years ago. One of the original "builder" games.

Works perfectly fine on Linux Mint, and I would gather almost any other flavour you desire. If you don't want to update your PC because Microsoft are telling you that Windows 11 is the ducks-nuts, then backup your important stuff, or install a new drive in your computer and leave the MS one as the backup. This might be an old rig, but runs great when not burdened with junk. i7-7700K 64GB DDR3 980Ti Proton 9.0.4 To increase the resolution in Skirmish games, edit the 'user.reg' file in your .steam folder. Make a copy of the file, call it something like "user.backup_reg". Edit the two entries in the "user.reg" file: [Original Entries] "DisplaymodeHeight"=dword:000001e0 "DisplaymodeWidth"=dword:00000280 [1920x1080 mode] "DisplaymodeHeight"=dword:00000483 "DisplaymodeWidth"=dword:00000780 [1680x1050 mode] "DisplaymodeHeight"=dword:0000041A "DisplaymodeWidth"=dword:00000690

had this as a kid and it still holds up to this day! if you like a good old RTS this is the one that started it all. glorious soundtrack.

3 kings for me in my childhood was TA SC1 and CaC, im glad in my 30's this one could never dissapoint me in the future cause it got to die as a king and not get slowly killed by ea and blizzard

Fun easy game with challenging AI.

one of the OG RTS games, it's a good casual play if you don't want a very resource heavy or time heavy game to play.

Total Annihilation is a classic RTS that can still be played many years later with tons of fun. However, if you want a more up-to-date experience with an active online community you should check out Beyond All Reason! It's a community recreation of Total Annihilation and the next best thing to Cavedog releasing a new one themselves.

This is the oldest game I played without having played it as a kid first, and I was extremely pleasently suprised of how well it aged. Qality of life features that make RTS less frustrating to play (remember Dune2?) are already there. You can queue orders and attack move is by default. In fact, for most actions you can just click (and have to option to use left or right click). There are also keyboard shortcuts, although not specified, still intuitive. Maybe I just need to read the manual. Clicking on the minimap doesn't change the view but actually selects the pixel you clicked on, so you can macro just from the minimap if you have perfect precision. The pacing is pretty slow, walking and building are slower than i'm used to these days, otherwise it would've been a great competitive game even after close to 30 years.

Often overlooked due to Command & Conquer and Warcraft dominating the market, but I consider it the superior RTS game from that era due to the combination of scale, scope, mechanics, and execution.

That was THE game nearly thirty years ago. I loved it those days - and i am so happy having found it on Steam. Most awesome: It is indeed running fine on today's Linux (GE-Proton 21). Okay, it goes all black when switching away e.g. via Alt-Tab, but everything else worked as soon as i activated the true 16:9 resolution of 1024 to 576. And playing solo a skirmish is still big fun. Okay, the graphics are antic, the AI weak and without focus, there are unit limits annoying during the final progress, but - hey - still fun. Why is there no modern TA with better AI, better graphics and fancier maps? Should not be too hard. And yes, i checked Zero-K here on Steam (it is for free), but that's meh.