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Binding: CD-ROM Brand: Macsoft EAN: 0722242515677 Edition: Gold ESRB Age Rating: Teen Format: CD-ROM Label: Atari Manufacturer: Atari Model: 04-17460 Platform: Macintosh Publisher: Atari Studio: Atari Accessories:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: Ever since Total Annihilation hit the PC world back in '97, gushing gamers have fallen all over themselves to heap praise on this amazing real-time strategy game. In classic understatement, PC Games called TA "the Greatest Game of All Time." Without a doubt, this title is an RTS standard, even years after its release. So that's why we Mac folk can still count our blessings with the late '99 release of Total Annihilation Gold, a pack that includes the basic game, plus the Battle Tactics suite of missions (a sort of strategy-clinic/quick-play add-on) and the TA: Core Contingency (a set of 75 new units and 25 new missions). While Total Annihilation may not have the back-story and sophisticated solo campaign play of its competitors, the game blows them away in nearly every other category. Combat is kick-ass and lightning quick, even on a good 604e, thanks to TA's 3-D engine, which uses polygons in favor of bitmaps to allow tons of players and units to mix it up without the usual slowdowns--you don't even need to invest in 3-D hardware to get this boost. The game just gets better when you add on stupendous graphics, an astounding number of units between the Arm and the Core (over 250 in the base game), a thoughtfully designed resource-management system that rewards aggressive play and allows for amazing comebacks (way better than the "oh, you lost that mine, you lost the game" fate of Warcraft and its ilk), and even an award-winning score performed by a chorus and a 75-piece orchestra. TA Gold gives you a rocking good start with the base game, Battle Tactics, and the Core Contingency, and is a well-equipped introduction to this RTS classic for the Mac crowd. About the only strike against this otherwise exceptional port is that Mac and PC players still can't duke it out in multiplayer, but that's just an unfortunate quibble with a title this solid. --Paul Hughes Pros:
Amazon.com Product Description: A real-time strategy game of epic proportions, Total Annihilation brings true 3-D to the world of Macintosh strategy. Choose to battle as the Arm or the Core, building kBots, tanks, ships, and aircraft to accomplish your goals. If you're just getting started in real-time strategy gaming, start out with Total Annihilation: Battle Tactics. Here you'll find 100 quick scenarios that use select units and provide the opportunity to learn several basic and a few not-so-basic strategies. With Total Annihilation: The Core Contingency, expand the Total Annihilation experience with new units, new worlds, new weapons, and new strategies. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Warning, not compatible with OS X!!!I love this game. It is one of the all-time best in its genre. Unfortunately, if you have a newer Mac like a Powerbook G4, it will not work. The OS 9 Classic software on the OS X system does not help matters either. As soon as you load a cd, the computer reads it as 2 seperate discs. About a third of the time can you actually get through to a mission, but when you do, the mac keyboard is not compatible with the game's command keys. If you have an outdated mac, good great. But if you have a ... Read More Rating: - Hands down best ever!I would like to start by saying I AM NOT A VIDEO GAME PERSON. However, after playing this game once in 1998, I was instantly hooked. I lost my copy and went for years with out TA action. I also use a mac now and as far as I knew there was no mac version of TA. Thank God for AMAZON, I am in TA heaven now with a Mac version. This is hands down the best game ever, and thats comming from somone who is not a video game person! Rating: - Total AnnihilationThis is the first real-time strategy I ever played, and it set the bar for all the rest. I have not yet found another to challenge it's place in my collection. Rating: - Starcraft N00bs! Prepare for Annihilation!I have been playing TA for several years now and despite technological advances in the realm of PC gaming, TA still has yet to be surpassed in several fields, primarily in expandability. TA has several elements that several RTS games did not have at the time, and still do not have, or rarely have. Here are a few. 1: Realistic ballistics in projectiles and counter-tactics thereof. You can dodge the weapons, in Starcraft it becomes a battle of attrition as it does in several other ... Read More Rating: - WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY?I'm with "A Gamer" on this one. WWWWWWHHHHHYYYYY!!!! THIS IS EVIL!!!!! WE DEMAND TA GOLD FOR PC! or AT LEAST A RE-RELEASE OF TA:CC!!! Whoever released TA GOLD for MAC... You are EVIL!!! Why torment those who use PC!?!? |
