Slowly, however, the game began to reveal its true depths. Harking from an unknown US developer, the game was initially dismissed as a Command & Conquer clone, its chief selling point seeming to be the fairly inevitable move to full 3D units. Six years ago, at a time of high excitement for the real-time strategy genre, a good-looking click-and-drag number was released called Total Annihilation. It teaches you all of the basics very quickly and then from that you can start to develop your own strategies when it comes to the actual battles. It teaches you very quickly about what you can do, what units you need to use, how to gather resources and so on. It is one of those games that is very, very easy to get into. What I really like about this game and what has kept me coming back to it all these years later is the gameplay. For a game from 1997, Total Annihilation has held up very, very well.

The fact that Total Annihilation looks amazing does also help drive home how awesome the story is. The game actually has a really cool intro that gets you pretty pumped up for the conflict between the two. The conflict between the two is pretty awesome and the story is better than I am describing here. The Core decided that everyone turning into robots was a good idea and the Arm did not…. The game is set in the far future and there are two warring factions, The Core and the Arm. The story of Total Annihilation is pretty awesome and surprisingly deep for a game originally released back in 1997.

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