Total Annihilation: Kingdoms Hits Stores June 25 for $44.99
Cavedog's fantasy RTS Total Annihilation: Kingdoms hits shelves June 25 in over 45 countries at $44.99, with a 48-mission campaign that switches sides.
Total Annihilation: Kingdoms starts showing up on store shelves this Friday, June 25, in more than 45 countries. Cavedog Entertainment, the GT Interactive subsidiary behind the original Total Annihilation, is asking an estimated $44.99 for the PC CD-ROM.
Kingdoms trades the first game’s machines for fantasy: four races battling for the mythical world of Darien, each led by an immortal monarch and each fielding dozens of units, from knights and dragons to trolls and giants. The full count comes to more than 100 articulated 3D battle units, plus 50 wandering monsters and non-player characters roaming the world. The campaign runs 48 missions broken up by dozens of cinematic cutscenes, and it pulls one genuinely interesting trick: you change sides as the story goes. Multiplayer gets 30 maps, out-of-the-box support for Boneyards, Cavedog’s new online gaming community, and Cartographer, the game’s map and scenario editor, for building your own.
Total Annihilation earned Cavedog a long leash around here. Friday can’t come fast enough.