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[Kingdom_Falls]

I think thisgame would be an awesome addition to Reloaded. It still is in beta(I believe) but it is in a fully playable state and is one of the best RTS's on the web. It's full name is Total Annihillation Spring, and it is an open-source game, so for sure it is freeware. Check it out!

[Potatoe]

Total Annihilation freeware?

[a1s]

well, at least they claim it is. and it's a pretty big and old project, I doubt they would still be around if they were breaking something...

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The core game is released under GPL License. Fortunately as of now, there are also two mods which have been released under the GNU/GPL, and several more which do not have clear licence terms (owned by their modder).

However, there are also several mods for which some parts are still under copyright of Atari. For these you need to own the original TA game if you want to play.

[Kingdom_Falls]

Soooo... good, bad, or just barely OK?

[RyGuy]

Sounds like the core game itself is okay. The mods are where it gets tricky, but as long as you were stick to the core game, should be fine.

[a1s]

you are correct. Now someone has to add it to "the list".

[Juni Ori]

Naah, I'm too lazy. Okay, okay, I'll do it...

[a1s]

"Total Annihilation thingy."?

[Juni Ori]

Sorry, not one of my best days. Anyways, I tried downloading this and it suddenly canceled it. I need to try it again later. I've heard only good things about TA, so perhaps it's time to check at least this.

[Potatoe]

I'm getting SupCom cos my PC pwns so hard.

[PrejudiceSucks]

Potatoe, on Aug 17 2007, 08:03 PM, said:

I'm getting SupCom cos my PC pwns so hard.

SupCom also pwns extremely hard.

[RyGuy]

Just read up on this, it requires at least one mod and by default comes with a mod containing commercial content. I didn't search around everywhere but I didn't notice a non-commercial-content mod.

[a1s]

RyGuy, on Aug 18 2007, 04:38 PM, said:

Just read up on this, it requires at least one mod and by default comes with a mod containing commercial content. I didn't search around everywhere but I didn't notice a non-commercial-content mod.

there are. look on the forums (I looked for about 5 minutes and found 3, but all 3 were betas of alphas).
the problem is:
a)TASpring is commercial. no go.  
b)Spring is an engine, not a game. also atypical of our site.  
So once a decent game is developed under it, we should include that.  

[Kingdom_Falls]

Kernel Panic is a non-commercial mod. AND it is no longer in beta(Mind you, it isn't the best of mods, but oh well).

[greywolf]

Hurm, so does this mean that we'd review Kernel Panic itself or Taspring? It seems to me that Taspring is just the engine, and it would be kinda lame to have a review on that itself. I can see the reviewer writing now... "So the UI buttons were shiny and all nice, but the placement was ergonomically unsound."

Seriously, though, this is kind of a problem - we can't review Taspring for what it's made for, which is Total Annihilation, which sucks because then all the other mods probably won't be on par with it.

Kingdom Falls, what you thinking about reviewing, exactly? We could probably do Kernel Panic, or some of the higher quality ones on this page, although I'm not sure how we're set up to handle multiple mods of the same game.