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Total Annihilation "Sequel" Coming Soon
One of my great joys is when a new gaming magazine arrives in the mail. Most times I find the cover story interesting, but very rarely does the cover actually make me react with a "holly crap, I need to open up this magazine and read this story right this second!" And that is exactly what I said when the latest issue of PC Gamer arrived in the mail yesterday. The cover story is about "Supreme Commander", the "spiritual successor" of Total Annihilation.
For those of you unfamiliar with Total Annihilation, it was a PC Real-Time Strategy Game released in 1997 and is often considered one of the best, if not the very best, RTS ever released (GameSpy named it the best RTS of all time). It was an amazing game that actually required real strategy to win and not just gathering resources faster than your opponent. Plus, there were about two million different types of units in the game (okay, the real number was closer to 250, but that is still an insane number of units), and yet it was still balanced. And to make the game even cooler when it first came out Cavedog (the developer) would release a new unit for the game every single week. Now that was a great game.
Well it appears that the prayers of thousands of RTS fans everywhere has finally been answer by Gas Powered Games. Supreme Commander is being published by THQ and is due out for the PC next year. Definitely check out the latest issue of PC Gamer to view the RTS goodness.
My inner child just burst out of my chest and began singing showtunes.
Posted by Naginata at June 17, 2005 10:30 AMCan I get a Hell Yah! Total Annihilation was the first PC game I bought, got it even before I could play it. I would just sit and look at the box shots wishing I could play it. Damn it, now I want to go play again, and I need to keep focused on Psychonaughts.
Posted by Zaphod at June 17, 2005 10:59 AMUh oh... Spore... SA... Spore... SA... ARGH! I'm going to be divorced in a year!
Posted by Legodragonxp at June 17, 2005 11:18 AMHmmm....doubt it will make the same impact as it's predeccesor. If you read the gamespy article, you will notice it is hailed simply because it had features that other rts games have commonly today before any of them did. So unfortunantly, this game is going to have to try real hard to be as well-recieved as it's daddy.
Posted by Indum at June 17, 2005 11:26 AMonly one word: wow!
The combination of this and spore in the near(ish) future will have me glued to my pc for many years to come and will cost me at least 2 levels at gcse! :D
wow!
Posted by SC at June 17, 2005 1:58 PMok, so it was more than one word- but who cares! :D
wow again!
Posted by SC at June 17, 2005 1:59 PMYES!!!!
I like the DS games, but I'm so glad he's returning to TA! A great game! Very well done, enjoyed it a lot and played around with modding and such. C&C had more PR power, but TA was by far the better game looking at the tech and gameplay.
About time! Will be sure to play it!
Posted by CustodianV131 at June 17, 2005 2:24 PMThis has caused me to think. Spore + Supreme Commander. Could this be a sign of things to come. Could it be the revitilization of PC gaming?
Posted by Zaphod at June 17, 2005 8:00 PMWell, for some reason I thought Age of Empires was the only rts in the genre at the same. Well I learned something today.
Someone needs to make a 'good' rts that had the feel of Age of Empire 2 The Conquerors Expansion.
Last rts I bought was Lord of the Rings battle for middle earth, and haven't played much rts lately.
We'll I'll pick this up when its released.
Posted by Tarious at June 17, 2005 10:35 PMGamespy has said they will have a grant preview of this soon... can't wait.
Posted by Cool AN at June 18, 2005 8:44 AMI don't know - I just can't get excited over Yet Another RTS. Dune II I played to the end, but I have never been able to finish another one. I've tried Warcraft, Starcraft, and C&C, but none of them seemed to bring much more to the table than Dune II offered. Prettier pictures, bigger tech trees, sure, but the basics still felt all the same to me.
Battlezone was the closest I could get that still felt new and fresh. What do you suppose this one could possibly bring to a genre that was tired 5 years ago?
*Nerdgasm*
Posted by Psilontech at June 22, 2005 12:39 AMDamn you! I went and bought the latest PC gamer, and it's the wrong one.
Posted by StickyLabel at June 25, 2005 8:01 AMcan''t believe I found out so late!!!!
Not sure anyone will read this but HURRAAYY!!!! I can't wait to see the commanders again. Jeremy Soule soundtrack I hope.
Noticed the same sound fx's on the site as in TA?
I thought; well, it's Cris Taylor, maybe he's working with the same sfx guy again, pitty he seems to be using the same fx over and over again.
Turns out thats because this is TA again. Sort of.
Posted by Marinez at August 16, 2005 10:17 PMWell...... I really hope it'll be related to the old TA. Like I hope The Arm and CORE are still in it. maybe even a new faction as well. If they have the same guys(ARM and CORE) i hope the Core still has the Krogoth aswell as all the other units even for the ARM. Also i hope they come out with patches for the game so after i beat it i can use them. like for the first Total Annihilation I got the TAUCP patch. It gave me new maps, and bulidings and units(like 500 for each side):)
Posted by Keil at October 4, 2005 11:58 AMNo. It won't have the Arm or Core. But, 3 new sides. I think that's for the better though. I can't wait. Go to Gamespy for Uber-coverage, they have everything SupCom! Really, I think I'm going to die Q4 next year...
Posted by Flayum at October 4, 2005 6:10 PMWell that kinda sucks..... But u didnt say if the ARM was still gonna be here. I miss those little peewee dudes cause some 1 stole my TA commander pack (the battle tactics, CORE contingincy and the capaign and skirmish disk). And how do u know that there will be 3 new sides and what are there names?
Also will there be any of the original units or buildings from the Total Annihilation?
But i Know They still have to have the commanders. AND will you have the chance to have a huge space battles?
Posted by Keil at October 5, 2005 12:02 PMO.K nevermind.... i just read up on it and saw some asowme screenshots. it looks amazing. the only thinkg id that the just have towork on the trees a bit more
Posted by keil at October 7, 2005 11:33 AM