Total Annihilation Remake Released 93
Pxtl writes "The long-awaited remake of Total Annihilation (considered "#1 RTS of All Time" by Gamepsy), "Spring" has hit its first official public beta release. The game reimplements the original Cavedog game in a full 3d environment, replacing TA's fixed-angle view. It also brings other new features to the table, such as revised physics and a 1st-person-shooter mode. Spring reuses the original TA content and is backwards compatible with the old unit packs.
While the game is currently win32 only, its source has been released under the GPL, so fixing that is only a matter of time. Get to the download page now and help out with the torrents."
Re:Not familiar with it (Score:2, Informative)
Definately worth checking out. I don't know if you'll need the CDs to play the open source engine, but either way, you should definately check out what TA was like because very rarely does a game of such greatness ever come around.
Single Player (Score:5, Informative)
No. TA Spring will only support multiplayer.
4.18 - Will there be an AI or a "skirmish" mode?
No. There is no AI or skirmish support planned.
I lost all interest after reading that.
Re: Is it multiplayer? (Score:5, Informative)
Now... I wanna see a Linux port!
Re:Not familiar with it (Score:1, Informative)
Mirrored at Open Source Gaming (Score:4, Informative)
And WINE (Score:4, Informative)
It also works under WINE, it seems
Re:TA Reminiscing (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Not familiar with it (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Not familiar with it (Score:2, Informative)
Spring (Score:4, Informative)
ATTENTION!! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Not familiar with it (Score:2, Informative)
gawd I luv TA (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.planetannihilation.com/aa/
lots of extra units, patches and balancing makes it the best mod
New Chris Taylor game coming (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zd1up/i
Gas Powered Games is making a new RTS. Of course not a sequel to TA, but could be very interesting.
For a little background, Chris Taylor is the man credited with creating Total Annihilation. However he left Cavedog to start up Gas Powered Games some time before Cavedog produced TA:Kingdoms and subsequently went under.