Total Annihilation: Kingdoms + Iron Plague (1999)

Gameplay: Differences

Total Annihilation: Kingdoms is the anticipated second installment of the Total Annihilation franchise. Although the game is neither a prequel nor a sequel to the original Total Annihilation game, comparisons between the two games are inevitable. There are numerous thematic and design differences between Total Annihilation and Total Annihilation: Kingdoms.

• A more in-depth storyline, told with cutscenes between missions just as Total Annihilation had, but with more detail.
• A change from a futuristic setting to a fantasy setting.
• Simplified resource-management, with just one resource (mana) instead of two (metal, energy).
• Four sides at the start, as opposed to the original’s two, with an expansion pack that added in a fifth.
• While the original Total Annihilation has players playing through the Core or Arm campaigns separately, Total Annihilation: Kingdoms switches between the four groups, players playing each side, as the levels progressed.
• Unlike the original Total Annihilation which has most of the units on its two factions virtually the same, other than in appearance, Total Annihilation: Kingdoms has very distinct characteristics between factions.