#Total annihilation vs supreme commander code
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It wasn't until 10 years later that we saw its true sucessor the pseudo-sequel Supreme Commander in 2007 which followed closely in it's predecessors footsteps. Man this makes me really want to make a thread about Supreme Commander/Total Annihilation vs other mech franchise like Gundam, Transformers, Code Geass, Evangelion, etc. Overall this was a finely balanced game that brought the world of 3D to RTS games and did it damn well. It's other key feature was that it didn't focus on the economical management of your base and infastructure like WarCraft or other RTS's of the time instead it was more about map control in the form of resources as the resouces you collected were brought passively into your war machine through extractors without the micromanagement of workers. You can turtle, rush, swarm or out tech your opponent. It is on a HUGE scale with zoom that lets you go from global view of the battlefield to a single unit taking up your entire screen with up to 1000 units per team. With COH, you have to keep an eye on what each squad is up to, it's very much a small force vs. Company of Heroes involves lots of micromanagment, while Supreme Commander involves lots of macromanagment. For instance the KBOT for the CORE would be the quick hitter first strike unit that had the speed to rush the enemy but the ARM counterpart had an edge in fire power to compensate for it's lack in speed. Supreme Commander is more about balancing base building and creating your army. Kill them all, and you are a god.' - Jean Rostand. The sale also includes the gameвЂ™s spiritual successors, Supreme Commander and Supreme Commander 2.

#Total annihilation vs supreme commander free

Like other RTS games you advanced through tech trees but instead of a simple rock/paper/scissors system of balancing the CORE and the ARM differentiad each other through simple nuances in similar units. Total Annihilation is free on GoG.com this weekend as part of the siteвЂ™s summer sale.

It's single player campaign was a simple good vs bad of two races seeking to completely eliminate each other from the galaxy but it's gameplay was where the uniqueness lay. Ahead of it's time with it's 3D engine and (for the time) intelligent AI Total Annihilation was a land mark RTS game that took us out of the 2D age of economy management simulators that came before it.