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"横扫千军" -- Simplified Chinese spelling

"Total Annihilation: Use Your Senses" -- German tag-lined title

"TA" -- Common abbreviation

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It is 4000 years in the future, and the epic battle between the Arm and the Core has devastated the galaxy. Both sides fight on with super-advanced technology, from plasma guns to giant robots to sonar jammers. The only acceptable outcome is total victory.You, as the Commander of either Arm or Core, must build up your base to destroy the other side, in a game developing the ideas of Command & Conquer . Unlike earlier titles in the genre, it uses a 3D world in which elevation changes have an effect.Mission objectives range from taking out specific targets to rescuing hostages to capturing the enemy base and using it in the next mission. Usually you must construct a base, although in some missions you lead an attacking force.Unlike other strategy games, however, you start out with the Commander, the game's most powerful unit, and must defend him at all costs. Resource collection is very quick and easy, since a single unit can extract metal indefinitely from a mine without ever having to return to your base, while options for producing energy include solar power, wind power, hydroelectric power, geothermal power, and fusion power.

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Seattle, WA, October 30, 1997 -- Total Annihilation, Cavedog Entertainment's groundbreaking 3-D real-time strategy game, was simultaneously launched in three languages and 14 countries on September 27, blasting more than 250,000 games into retail stores during its first month of release.

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GameSpy 2001 – #50 Top Game of All Time

GameStar (Germany) Issue 12/1999 - #80 in the "100 Most Important PC Games of the Nineties" ranking

PC Gamer 1997 or 1998 - Greatest Game Of All Time April 2000 - #17 in the "All-Time Top 50 Games Poll" April 2005 - #34 in the "50 Best Games of All Time" list

PC Player (Germany) Issue 01/1998 - Most Stunning Music in 1997



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Total Annihilation (Windows) on Feb 25, 2000 Plix (204) added(Windows) on Feb 25, 2000

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