I will be doing a VLP of the Arm faction campaign, with screenshots from the Core campaign alongside. Total Annihilation follows the 'old timey' style of RTS gameplay with two mutually exclusive campaigns one for each faction. Cavedog attempted to pioneer a number of new techniques with TA including downloadable content in the form of new units and maps offered for free on the Cavedog website and an integrated multiplayer experience which involved players fighting multiple battles across a simulated galaxy, claiming territory for their faction and trying to eliminate the others. I will be playing through all of them, which will be interesting for me because back in my youth I never actually finished Battle Tactics, so that's something to look forward to. The second xpack was called Battle Tactics and included a few new units as well as a number of 'challenge' scenarios and maps.
Total Annihilation did recieve two expansion packs called Core Contingency which added a huge number of new units to play with, including opening up an entire new theatre of war by allowing wholly underwater bases to be constructed and a new campaign that actually contained the semblance of an interesting story.
That's right, Starcraft pretty much sealed the coffin on TA by being better at the things that mattered gameplay and story. Total Annihilation pioneered a number of techniques that were years, if not decades ahead of their time, but a somewhat lacklustre storyline, rough and unbalanced gameplay and the very unfortunate timing resulted in it being passed over for a different RTS game released a short while later in 1998, one you've probably heard of by a company you've probably heard of that is currently one of the most successful developers on the planet. Total Annihilation is a Real Time Strategy (RTS) game releasted by Cavedog Entertainment in 1997 and is widely regarded by those who are aware of it (which is sadly few) as one of the greatest losses to gaming.
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