Reception
The game was highly praised by critics and players, and won numerous awards, including GameSpot's Game of the Year Award for 1997. TA is still played actively today, over 10 years after its release. It won Gamespy's Top Ten Real-Time Strategy Games of All Time in 2004, leaving StarCraft in second place. It was also recently named to GameSpot's 50-game The Greatest Games of All Time list. The editors stated "It's not as famous as Warcraft or Command & Conquer, but Total Annihilation is arguably better than any other real-time strategy game to date." See Awards. Overall, Total Annihilation received metascores of 86 out of 100 from Metacritic.com and 88.85% from GameRankings.com.
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