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If the various units sounded interesting, that might have gone a long way toward lending the game the sort of personality and idiosyncrasy that helped make Blizzard's real-time strategy games so popular.Īt other times, the sound in Kingdoms seems altogether unfinished, and events for which you'd expect audible cues, like unit construction and healing, are strangely silent. But in Kingdoms, which is evidently modeled after Blizzard's character-driven real-time strategy games, the sound effects are mediocre and often downright bad and cannot be excused as easily because the game professes to have so much more context than its predecessor. The dozens of robotic units in Total Annihilation could be easily forgiven for their plain mechanical noises, which seemed appropriate even if altogether uninspiring. Yet while Kingdoms' graphics aren't all that bad, it's difficult to find anything nice to say about the game's sound effects.
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Even if you have a very fast machine, you'll still find that the game's frame rate bogs down noticeably during large-scale battles on account of the software rendering, which not only makes the game look worse than it could have, but proves to be a serious detriment during gameplay. The Kingdoms graphics engine, only slightly enhanced since Total Annihilation, makes limited use of 3D acceleration to accentuate certain special effects but does not take advantage of your card in order to enhance the game's frame rate or smooth the edges on the polygons. The flat 2D backdrops aren't much better, and the 3D units clash against them much like they did in Cavedog's first game. The consequence is that it's not so easy to tell one unit from the next in Kingdoms, and while some look distinctive, such as the kingdom Veruna's massive warships and dirigibles or Zhon's squid-like krakens, many or even most others look plain at best and messy at worst. Although the graphics in Kingdoms are more detailed than those of its science fiction-themed precedent, the jagged-edged polygonal graphic style was far better suited to the rough-hewn metallic shapes of Total Annihilation than the more organic style of Kingdoms' designs. You can begin to see what's wrong with it right from the start. And while Kingdoms does include four different playable factions and a much more interesting story than Total Annihilation did, Cavedog's second game suffers from a long list of problems that collectively prevent it either from exceeding its ancestor or from rejuvenating a tired genre.
A year and a half later, Cavedog is trying to follow suit with Total Annihilation: Kingdoms, a fantasy real-time strategy game that is an apparent effort to reclaim the interest of Total Annihilation fans. You now can choose which language you would like to your TA:K be translated to.It isn't often that an upstart game company breaks through with a major hit, but when Cavedog released Total Annihilation in late 1997, that's what happened. Updated some minor things such as my nick (DeeKay).
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Fixed download links, added copy download link as main and dropbox as mirror, so you shouldn't have problems downloading campaign movies. In both setups you won't be able to disable 4.1bb version anymore because when you removed, TA:K went 1.0 and wouldn't work properly. Changed vocabulary, "Campaigns' Movies" to "Campaigns' Cutscenes". Updated KingNoCD, the other didn't work properly. Compact Setup now extracts cutscenes automatically now (it asks if you want to keep compressed. Setup will ask if you want to overwrite Keys.tdf. Keys.tdf now includes MoveFight command. You can select wheter you want download or not the campaign movies in Compact Setup.
Added KingNoCd.exe file and a shortcut to it called "Play TA Kingdoms No-CD". (you can choose if you would like to create icons, start menu folder, what components you would like to install, where to install, etc.) (it doesn't leave any files in folder, also you can choose if you would delete registry TA:K things for complete uninstall) Uses DirectX 3D Render and Desktop Resolution as default. (English, Français, Italiano, Deutsch or Español) D You can choose which language you would like to your TA:K be translated to.
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The TA:K Compact Version Setup is a compact version of TA:K (308mb), it has the same things of the Full Version, but it doesn't include Movies in, but IN the Setup, there is an option if you would like to download the movies. Total Annihilation: Kingdoms Compact Version