Total annihilation Kingdoms, what can I say? When this game came out it outdid every other, it gave you great gameplay an amazing story line and some of the best music of its time. The game puts you in the roll of one of five monarchs who is able to build structures and raise an army to defeat other people, each monarch is in control of a different race, each race is completely different to the other, each possessing different strengths and weaknesses such as Aramons long range artillery the trebuchet that can fire across the entire map! Or the mighty ships of the Veruna navy that outmatch any other in a sea battle. Zhon can create an army any ware on the map thanks to there ability to summon units from beasts masters and the like instead of buildings, and Taros have some of the most divers and powerful units in the game! Creon, a race that was added in the expansion the Iron Plague also adds to the variety as they refuse to use magic and instead has advance in technology into a steam punk like race using steam and electricity for there machines to attack there enemies. To this day I have not seen any other game that is as diverse as this. When It comes to maps there are literally dozens to choose from, each one has been given an amazing amount of detail and still retains a design that can bring about many different types of unique strategies As each race is able to use the maps layout to its own advantage. This makes skirmish play vary enjoyable as there are so many possibilities to attack and defend on each one that you will find yourself continually playing to see what kind of strategy works best for each one. The campaign consists of the ware between to four monarch's , each monarch is fleshed out as you are able to see what happens to the Land Of Darien. While playing the campaign you will be able to see the great cities of Aramon, sail across watery island like land of Veruna, explore huge forests as you enter the land of Zhon and fight great evils as you travel through the realm of Taros.
The core gameplay being based of the settlers with a couple of twists such as the automated defensive troops and walls and so on, this makes for vary good gameplay however the game suffers from many graphical glitches on most systems including windows xp, this makes the game basically unplayable for most people.
