It was a true novelty back in the late 1990s to experience an RTS where artillery actually functioned like real-life artillery and could not only hit targets off-screen but at ranges stretching from one corner of the map to the other. The diversity of strategies you could use to win and the huge number of units available (especially with the expansions) along with effectively infinite resources in the late-game meant that games dragged on forever and 8-way multiplayer games would take hours and hours to resolve, as opposed to the clichéd 'Zerg rush' plays you would see in StarCraft or C&C games of the era where one player spammed cheap, mobile units and simply steam-rolled their opponents in Clod: I was always a huge fan of the long-range artillery like Big Bertha/Intimidator/Vulcan/Buzzsaw. TA was always a tougher sell given it was a much slower, much more difficult game to get into and master with a far steeper learning curve to overcome before you could even hope to complete a few campaign missions on normal difficulty. Games like TA always took a back seat to glorified build queue simulators like C&C, StarCraft or Age of Empires, which while fun in their own right, have very, very little to do with actual strategy or military tactics and are invariably just a game of rock-paper-scissors with some elaborate dressing on top where victory is inevitably decided by whoever has the highest APM. There has been no true successor to TA, not even SupCom can truly match the unlimited scale of TA and it's expanded community of mods, tweaks, hundreds of additional units and improvements and/or total conversions.

Planetary Annihilation is a pale shadow of TA and is so dumbed-down and limited in scale, scope and strategy compared to its spiritual predecessor that it feels more like a military-themed version of Spore or some half-baked tower defense game.

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