Total Annihilation

Total Annihilation is a real-time strategy video game created by Cavedog Entertainment, a sub-division of Humongous Entertainment, and was released in September 1997 by GT Interactive for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. Two expansion packs were released, The Core Contingency on April 29, 1998 and Battle Tactics on July 20. After the closure of the Cavedog Entertainment in 1999, the intellectual property fell to Infogrames (now Atari).

This article is about the 1997 real-time strategy video game. For the compilation album by Annihilator, see Total Annihilation (album).
Total Annihilation
Developer(s)Cavedog Entertainment
Publisher(s)
Producer(s)Ron Gilbert
Designer(s)Chris Taylor
Artist(s)Clayton Kauzlaric
Composer(s)Jeremy Soule
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows, Mac OS
Release
  • UK: September 25, 1997
  • NA: September 27, 1997
Genre(s)Real-time strategy
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Total Annihilation is no longer officially supported, due to the closure of Cavedog. Former lead designer Chris Taylor went on with Gas Powered Games to create Supreme Commander in 2007, considered the "spiritual successor" of Total Annihilation. The creators of XTA, a mod for Total Annihilation, independently developed the open-source 3D graphics Spring game engine. The Total Annihilation 3D project began in 2006.

In July 2013, Wargaming bought the Total Annihilation franchise from the Atari bankruptcy proceedings.

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