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Posted February 24, 2011
We bet you didn't see that coming. Today we're releasing the "sequel" to the acclaimed RTS franchise Total Annihilation. For the price of only $5.99 that's a steal!

[url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/total_annihilation_kingdoms]Total Annihilation: Kingdoms is a real-time strategy that developed many features of its predecessor. The game is neither a sequel nor prequel to the original Total Annihilation, but a spin-off that took players from the futuristic setting from the first part into a world of fantasy. Aside from the different setting than in the original, other changes include a simpler resource management which allows you to focus more on the massive battles, and four different factions (instead of two) with distinct units' characteristics. Our version of the game also includes "The Iron Plague" expansion which adds one more kingdom and hundreds of new maps to play on. Forget about lunch today and spend this spare cash on this game and you won't regret it.
Posted February 24, 2011
Bought it! Played only one skirmish map. Three players, me, an ally and an enemy.
Ally owned the enemy, I was able to fight only one battle.

Is there any difficulty option for the AIs?

So far it looks good, many units, I played the nation with the tower in their sign. they look like normal humans to me. Plenty of units. The graphics are not that bad at 1280x1024.
Posted February 24, 2011
As an OCD completionist I love this! Now, when you add The Iron Plague addon to it I am all over it. ;)
Post edited February 24, 2011 by PCGameGuy
Posted February 24, 2011
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PCGameGuy: As an OCD completionist I love this! Now, when you add The Iron Plague addon to it I am all over it. ;)
It has The Iron Plague already!

:)
Posted February 24, 2011
I was going to point out that it had Iron Plague, but it looks like I got ninja'd.

Anyway, I was pleasently surprised to see this one up, I'd kinda forgotten how much fun the game is, though I will agree that the campaign is certainly not the brightest feature. I always thought Zhon was the coolest.
Post edited February 24, 2011 by wolfman1911
Posted February 24, 2011
Hell yeah! Highly underrated game, and one that gives me fond memories. *bought*
Posted February 24, 2011
I hated this game, but it is bloody rare so im glad its here
Posted February 24, 2011
Definitely getting when I get paid next week.

And, yes, I am that poor. Especially after buying RIFT CE. Only here now because they're rebooting the servers.
Posted February 24, 2011
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Hillsy_: Going to pass on this for now. But...Dune 2, loved that one!
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zebber: Dune 2 was a fun game, but I'd prefer to see Dune 2000 here.
I think Emperor is superior to Dune 2000, and it's not "only" a remake like 2K but a true sequel (although it seems to connect more to 2K than the original Dune 2).
Posted February 24, 2011
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zebber: Dune 2 was a fun game, but I'd prefer to see Dune 2000 here. I never got a chance to play it back in the day, it doesn't seem to work now, and it fixes the only thing from Dune 2 that I didn't like: selecting units one at a time.
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Hillsy_: Hmmm..never played Dune 2000 either. I heard it got mixed reviews, some bug problems etc back in the day so I stayed away from it. I was going to wait until it got patched, but then other games came along and well..you know. I played the Amiga version of Dune 2, could you only select one unit at a time? I know C&C 1 & 2 allowed for multiple selection. It's been such a long time since I played Dune 2. I can't remember. I'll take your word for it :)
Dune 2000 is great. I actually got it working in dosbox with little issue and it runs pretty well on a netbook. The only reason GOG probably doesn't have it yet is beacuse of EA. Not sure if it had the same bug as Dune 2 either.

Dune 2 had a bug with the number of units allowed in a single campaign. Eventually you reach a limit to the "total" number of units. This means yours + your enemy. You could cheat by killing an enemy unit and building one before he does. If he couldn't get one out faster, you would out number him.
Posted February 25, 2011
Any new freeware game? :D
Posted February 25, 2011
Haha! This is the game I thought I bought when I bought Seven Kingdoms 2. I played a demo of this a long time ago, but all that I remembered was something with `Kingdoms' and it being a fantasy rts. Now, luckily I quite liked SK2 too, but now I can finally play this again as well!
Posted February 25, 2011
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zebber: Dune 2 was a fun game, but I'd prefer to see Dune 2000 here.
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Vault_Boy: I think Emperor is superior to Dune 2000, and it's not "only" a remake like 2K but a true sequel (although it seems to connect more to 2K than the original Dune 2).
Emperor just didn't grab me the same as the original had. It should have, because it had very new different units, a nice engine, free mission selection...it just didn't :(
Posted February 25, 2011
Great!
Posted February 25, 2011
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Hillsy_: Hmmm..never played Dune 2000 either. I heard it got mixed reviews, some bug problems etc back in the day so I stayed away from it. I was going to wait until it got patched, but then other games came along and well..you know. I played the Amiga version of Dune 2, could you only select one unit at a time? I know C&C 1 & 2 allowed for multiple selection. It's been such a long time since I played Dune 2. I can't remember. I'll take your word for it :)
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cp96alumni: Dune 2000 is great. I actually got it working in dosbox with little issue and it runs pretty well on a netbook. The only reason GOG probably doesn't have it yet is beacuse of EA. Not sure if it had the same bug as Dune 2 either.

Dune 2 had a bug with the number of units allowed in a single campaign. Eventually you reach a limit to the "total" number of units. This means yours + your enemy. You could cheat by killing an enemy unit and building one before he does. If he couldn't get one out faster, you would out number him.
About Dune 2 - Yes, yes...same with C&C Red Alert; It had the same problem too. It happened on the last couple of missions. Reaching unit limit.
Posted February 25, 2011
I was wondering when GOG would get around to selling this one.
When it came out, it got not so much bad as middling reviews. The consensus seemed to be it was an OK,Decent game but not anywhere near as good as Total Annihiliation was. And it's being released in a very buggy state did not help matters much.
The bugs were eventually fixed, and the game was sucessful enough to warrant a expansion, but it was not the big sucess that TA was.
IMHO, it is a good game, but not a great one.And something that is just good is going to be regarded as a dissapointment if it is the sucessor to something that is great.
But it is well worth the Six Bucks,I am downloading it now.
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