

As with most games in the genre, players begin by constructing a base, mining resources (by extracting or reusing metal) and building units. Total Annihilation is a real-time strategy game that features 3D environments and units, allowing for elevated terrain, realistic firing trajectories and explosions that show flying parts as well as billowing smoke.

Now there is only one thing on the minds of those involved in this epic war: total annihilation! Using sophisticated combat suits instead of pure robotics, the Arm was able to battle the Core until the once fertile planets became nothing more than barren wastelands.

Not everyone was willing to submit to such a radical procedure, however, and these dissidents formed their own group called the Arm. The galactic struggle for supremacy began some four thousand years ago, with the Core deciding to preserve their culture by transferring human consciousness into durable machines.
