Yes, you can annihilate a planet by building a gun into a moon - orbital craft joining ground, sea and air units as a fourth category - but you're also doing it in the cutest widdle solar system. chased after emotional peaks, Planetary Annihilation only makes headway in yet another kind of scale. Just as Supreme Commander imagined endgame units towering over crowds of smaller robots, Sins of a Solar Empire bore a proud, operatic texture or R.U.S.E. This month Uber Entertainment declared Planetary Annihilation complete and is selling the finished game with an even more arresting image: a screenshot of the 'Annihilaser' which arrived in the last patch, allowing players to turn any of their metal planets into a Death Star and pop celestial bodies like balloons.įor posterity's sake, then: is this the biggest, silliest RTS ever?
The image? A moon, rigged with the enormous engines of player one, rocketing straight towards a temperate world hosting the impenetrable base of an unsuspecting player two. The dream was a noble one: the robotic conflict of Total Annihilation on an interplanetary scale. Planetary Annihilation is a real-time strategy game founded on a dream, and funded on an image.
