* A faction in Chris Taylor's video game, Total Annihilation

Total Annihilation ( 1997 ) was the first real-time strategy game to utilize true 3D units, terrain, and physics in both rendering and in gameplay.

For instance, the missiles in Total Annihilation travel in real-time in simulated 3D space, and they can miss their target by passing over or under it.

Total Annihilation gameplay experience in 3 dimensions.

* Clayton Kauzlaric, artist and game designer known for his work on the games Total Annihilation and Voodoo Vince.

Total Annihilation ( abbreviated TA ) is a real-time strategy video game created by Cavedog Entertainment, a sub-division of Humongous Entertainment, and released on September 30, 1997 by GT Interactive for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS.

Total Annihilation is no longer officially supported, due to the closure of Cavedog.

The Cavedog team ended, but Ex-Cavedog & Lead Designer Chris Taylor, went on with Gas Powered Games to create Supreme Commander, popularly 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.

Also, the Total Annihilation 3D ( TA3D ) project was begun in the summer of 2006.

Total Annihilation is currently played online via The WarZone, Game Ranger, and Phoenix Worx gaming lobbies, with The WarZone being the most active.

Total Annihilation is set in the far future in the midst of a galactic war, with battles taking place on the surface of planets and moons.

Resources in Total Annihilation are handled in a manner different from other RTS games of the day: they are " streaming ," meaning that they are accumulated at a constant rate rather than in small batches ; and they are limitless.

Total Annihilation was one of the first RTS games to feature radar that caused enemy units within its radius to appear on the minimap despite being covered by the fog of war.

Total Annihilation was the very first RTS game to point the way towards battlefields with hundreds and thousands of units.

However, Total Annihilation initially permitted 200 units per side which was later patched to 500 and then to 5, 000 units per side.

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.

Overall, Total Annihilation received metascores of 86 out of 100 from Metacritic. com and 88. 85 % from GameRankings. com.

( Total Annihilation editor ), which allows users to create maps and missions.

A month after CC, Total Annihilation: Battle Tactics was released, which includes 4 new units, 100 additional missions as well an experimental approach to TA gameplay, with less emphasis on base construction.

3. 1 is the latest patch for Total Annihilation and its expansions.

Following the release of Total Annihilation on gog. com, the entire soundtrack has been made playable from MP3 files using a. dll.

Total Annihilation has won 58 awards, the list of which follows:

* Total Annihilation: The Core Contingency

* Total Annihilation: Battle Tactics

* Total: 346, 858 km ( 1997 est.

The US EPA replaced the older standards for particulate matter based on Total Suspended Parrticulate with PM10 in 1987 and then introduced standards for PM2. 5 ( also known as fine particulate matter ) in 1997.

Total combined sales of both retail and wholesale products in 2007 came to ¥ 813bn, approximately a quarter less than sales in 1997 a decade prior.

He is best known for directing the American feature films RoboCop ( 1987 ), Total Recall ( 1990 ), Basic Instinct ( 1992 ), Starship Troopers ( 1997 ), and Hollow Man ( 2000 ).

She later wrote three mystery novels with Liz Nickles: The Total Zone ( 1994 ), Breaking Point ( 1996 ), and Killer Instinct ( 1997 ).

At 1: 25 am on August 28, 2007, at the exact moment of the Total Lunar Eclipse, Paul Addis, a well known, longtime Burning Man participant and gadfly of BMorg ( the Burning Man Organization ), who had previously pranked the Man as early as 1997, set the Man on fire four days ahead of schedule.

Countries that are at this stage ( Total Fertility Rate of less than 2. 5 in 1997 ) include: United States, Canada, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, all of Europe, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Singapore, Iran, China, Turkey, Thailand and Mauritius.

In 1997, Berkoff won the first Total Theatre Lifetime Achievement Award.

From 1997 to 2006, the club was known as Total Network Solutions F. C.

Cavedog gained the attention of gamers and the gaming press alike with the 1997 release of Total Annihilation ( TA ), winning many accolades such as multiple Game of the Year honors or being one of The Greatest Games of All Time.

After two years of development on Cavedog's first product, Total Annihilation, it was presented at the E3 at Atlanta 1997 and published on September 30, 1997.

Gilbert also co-founded Cavedog Entertainment in 1996 to produce more mature games ; the company is known for the 1997 title Total Annihilation.

* Holds Houston Astros single season records for Batting Average (. 368 in 1994 ), On-base percentage (. 454 in 1999 ), Slugging Percentage (. 750 in 1994 ), OPS ( 1. 201 in 1994 ), Runs ( 152 in 2000 ), Total Bases ( 363 in 2000 ), Home Runs ( 47 in 2000 ), Walks ( 149 in 1999 ), Times on Base ( 331 in 1999 ), Intentional Walks ( 27 in 1997 ) and At Bats per Home Run ( 10. 3 in 1994 )

*' Total Theatre Awards ' has presented their Total Theatre Awards for excellence in the field of physical and visual theatre since 1997.

Total damage was estimated at $ 16. 5 million ; adjusted for wealth and inflation the toll is approximately $ 1. 4 billion ( 1997 USD ), surpassed in history only by one extremely destructive tornado in the City of St. Louis .< ref name =" Brooks "> This one event in terms of destruction, inferred by normalized monetary losses, is by far the most destructive ( and expensive ) tornado ever in the United States.

* Total Security ( 1997 ).... Cheryl Bankston in episode: " Pilot "

Prior to his political career, he worked as a Quality Manager at Taylor Woodrow between 1990 – 94, Management Consultant at NatWest Bank 1994-96 and as a Total Quality Facilitator at Mitel from 1996 until the general election in 1997.

Total output rose to a peak of 159, 000 t in the 1997 / 1998 season compared to only 17, 000 t in 1993 / 1994.

* Total Annihilation ( 1997 ), ( producer only )

* Total Annihilation ( 1997 )