It was very tight and well tuned and ran on average systems.

Wilhelm2451 Post author Novemat 9:11 – I wouldn’t begrudge StarCraft its place.

Who has a good Total Annihilation site up their sleeve? There used to be a vicious AI that would start dropping nukes on you at about the 15 minute mark in a skirmish. There used to be some great maps for the game. I was also able to dig out my old Stardock account information, so I actually have access to Galactic Civilizations I and II again now as well. Stardock’s client, Impulse, isn’t quite as intrusive as Steam, but it also isn’t as polished. I am not exactly thrilled to have to have installed another Steam-like client on my system. I gather from the logo and what I have read that Atari ended up in possession of the rights to the game.Īnd, true to my expectations, the install did lay down all of the content, patches, and what not. And I don’t even have to pop the CD in the drive to play. They too have a Steam-like service and a small library of games, including TA for just $9.99. In digging around though, I did find Total Annihilation over at Stardock. Frankly none of my list was on Steam, but I’ll get to that in another post. So I would have gladly dropped some cash to get a Steam installed version that put the whole thing together for me. There used to be a great site that had everything centrally located, but it has been down for a few years. Then there are patches to go find and units released by Cavedog as post GA downloadable content to track down in order to get the full package. But you have to install the expansions in the right order or everything gets mucked up, and I can never remember which is the right order. You have to install the base game first, then the two expansions.

And because they are that old, they are a bit of a pain to install. I have the main CD and the two expansions, all of which are over 10 years old. Of course, I actually own the game already. Still, there is a lot to plow through on Steam, so I sat down and made a short list of games I’d like to find there.Īt the top of the list was Total Annihilation, probably my favorite RTS of all time. As SynCaine mentioned the other day, the game has changed. There were some older games, a few that I thought I might like to go back and revisit. After getting Civilization V through Steam, I had started digging around through their store to see what else they might have on hand.

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