Excellent game, great replayability -- perfect for LANs and single player skirmishes with extensive modding ability.
User Rating: 9.1 | Total Annihilation PC
Total Annihilation, even in its old age, is still an excellent game worth playing. Though it started with an interesting story premise, however, Total Annihilation's strength is certainly not in its campaign-- but rather in its multiplayer and skirmish modes. While the base Total Annihilation features more or less very similar factions to choose from with minor play differences, the hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of customized third party units, as well as officially released add-on unitpacks, more than make up for this-- and the game's easy moddability in regards to maps and mapping, has helped extend its life a full seven years after its release. If you're looking for a game where you can command hundreds (and, depending on your computer specs, with a variety of tools and utilities available from www.tauniverse.com -- thousands) of units at a time and wage war over massive maps (some epic class maps made by third parties requiring 128 megabytes of ram) -- then this game is for you. While the persistant online community of TA is not reccommended for novices to play against, this is _the_ game for LANs or playing against your friends, or even against the computer-- and by adding additional third party units or full fledged mods, you can change the gameplay to anything you're looking for. Bottom line: Definately worth buying.
