Total Annihilation: The Core Contingency
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| Developer(s) | Cavedog Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | GT Interactive |
| Designer(s) | Chris Taylor |
| Latest version | 3.1 |
| Release date(s) | March 20, 1998 |
| Genre(s) | Real-time strategy (RTS) |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Teen (T) |
| Platform(s) | Windows |
| Media | CD-ROM |
| Input | Keyboard, Mouse |
The Core Contingency is a 1998 expansion to the popular 1997 real-time strategy computer game Total Annihilation. It contains extra units and maps, as well as a campaign of 25 missions and a long-awaited map editor.
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[edit] Story
The Core Contingency picks up where the original game left off from the Arm ending, with the Arm achieving final victory over the Core in their Galactic War of over 4,000 years. With the Core seemingly wiped out of existence, the Arm underwent one-hundred years of reconstructing civilzation.
However, a lone Core Commander survives, hidden away in a distant system. The Core Commander is charged with a single mission: to search for a powerful and ancient alien artifact hidden in the area. With modifications, the artifact can be converted into an Implosion Device—a single, phenomenally powerful superweapon which, when activated, can cause the entire galaxy to implode into itself, purely in order to destroy the Arm. The Core Commander would stay inside the gigantic machine as it causes the galaxy to virtually self-destruct, then step out unscathed and rebuild the entire Core race.
Meanwhile, rumors circulate amongst the mending Arm over the said Contingency Plan, so an Arm Commander is dispatched along with sizable reinforcements to confirm or eliminate the gossip.
[edit] Features
The Core Contingency expansion features 25 new missions, with 12 for each of its campaigns. There is an Arm bonus mission named "Krogoth Encounter," set during the original game (and thus could technically be considered a "lost mission") during the Galactic War on the metallic world of Core Prime as the Arm was slowly making its way to domination. The level is available only at Hard difficulty and pits the player against experimental Krogoth Kbots.
The 75 new units the expansion pack comes with include seaplanes capable of landing underwater, aqueous metal deposits and structures (such as the floating "Naval-Series" heavy laser turrets and missile turrets), hovercraft, amphibious Kbots, pop-up turrets, and rapid-fire plasma cannons, among many others. It also, aside from its plethora of whole new worlds, has new natural disasters, mainly the unpredictable earthquakes of Temblor, a planet whose only habitable land lies on mountains high above clouds.
The expansion comes with 53 multi-player maps, featuring all-new environments such as lusch, slate, crystal, urban, and sea-coral. It also fixes various bugs and glitches in the original game.
[edit] System requirements
- Minimum
- Pentium 100 MHz
- 32 MB RAM
- Windows 95
- VGA video card
- Sound Blaster-compatible sound card
- 4x CD-ROM drive
- 100 MB hard-disk space
- Recommended
- Pentium 350 MHz
- 128 MB RAM
[edit] Platforms
- Microsoft Windows
- Windows 95
- Windows 98
- Windows Me
- Windows NT 4.0
- Windows 2000 and Windows XP {Set in Compatibility Mode for Win95}
- Windows XP x64 {Requires manual installation}
- Apple Macintosh (PowerPC)
- Partially runs on WINE
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Official Web Site (Mirrored at Fileuniverse)
- Uberhack Mod the location of the Uberhack (or Überhack) Modification for Total Annihilation. It is made by fans of the game.
- PlanetAnnihilation
- TAUniverse
- TADesigners
- TA-Zone The Ultimate TA Resource site. TA 1v1 Ladder, TA Replays and Forums.
