Planetary Annihilation: TITANS Review

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Planetary Annihilation Inc developers are same developers behind Kerbal Space Program 2. They also had a disastorous kickstarter launch to the point that they had to delist old game and make a small expansion to get fresh reviews. This studio has a habit of overpromising and underdelivering. This game is no exception.

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Is its planetary annhilation. This game allows you to fight through multiple different planets and end game tools literally destroy planets. Either it would be by making a projectile out of small planet or a massive cannon which destroys other worlds or just plain, good, old Doomsday device which is going to jihad the planet when it is done. Game is fun at this scale. It is fun to propel the entire moon to your enemy and destroy his entire planet. This is what I enjoyed about this game.

This game reeks of just one thing. Inability for studio to deliver a good product. Everything what this game does implies a game developer which bitten more than it can chew. Nothing in this is done well. Graphics, scale, balancing, bugs, audio, personality, gameplay systems. No aspect of this game is well executed. It plays as a vastly inferior version of a Supreme Commander. It is ought to be successor to an ancient Total Annihilation from 1997. However, even compared to that game it looks somehow worse.

 

        Gameplay

• There is very little what is interesting about this game. Does it have great economy system like in Supreme Commander? No. It is very easy to float resources doing any kind of expanding. Meta from what I had heard then naturally devolves into who can spam the quickest. There are no tactical options. No factions. Only a player which can outproduce enemy the fastest matter. Units are damn cheap and effective. From the moment you start, you will have a never ending stream of them. This makes all late game units kinda pointless, because games rarely would get to the point where it would matter. It is kind of a game where each player agrees to sit on their own for a few hours and build up slowly with no pressure rather than jumping into mindless spam which competitive game is. It speaks volumes that a Supreme Commander player does not like the gameplay and its spamminess. There in that game, everything is balanced. In this, it just feels like all the pieces were dropped in without any care how they each interact with each other.
  
  Presentation
• Remember when I said that Total Annihilation from 1997 looks better? I’m not joking. Game looks and feels terrible. Developer does that shady thing of misrepresenting their game in screenshots. In this case, screenshots are totaly made up. Graphics in this game is absolutely awful. There is no detail in this game. Each unit seems like uninspired, AI generated lego construct. Terrain is bland. Structures look just bad.
  
   
  This does not end here. Detail of units are lacking. Sprites from 1997 look better. Terrain is actually more detailed with hills and rivers. Buildings are distinct from each other. Units make individual sounds. In this game, it is stock pew pew sounds for everything. Even Titans are not impressive. They are in screenshots, but in game they are just as ugly as everything else.
  
  Bugs
• Initial impression was terrible. I started tutorial, but I wanted to improve my graphical settings. Game crashed. I tried loading the tutorial, game was all white. I tried to play galactic conquest, jumped into a game. I could not save game nor quit from menu. Eventually game crashed after going to third person view. Game is a technical mess. I experienced constant crashing and it is not just my system:
  https://steamcommunity.com/app/386070/discussions/0/7098294290806571322/
  While developers or hard-die fans are mindlessly bringing troubleshoot links for users, it doesn’t address any of known bugs and generally are unhelpful advise like: “update your drivers”. Empty advise just to soften the criticism. The fact that there are known multiple crashes which affects players and developers never fixed them speaks very poorly about them. If they had left this game in such a state, how anyone can trust them with any other product which they make in the future? False advertisements, game-breaking bugs which were left completely ignored.

This is one of the most disappointing games out there. It struggles to compete with game out of 1997. Beyond all reason mod is better than this paid game. Supreme Commander from 2007 is still king. This game offers very little to the player. There are better alternatives left and right. Furthermore, controversy of a kickstarter, false advertising on a steam store page via screenshots and long unaddressed critical bugs makes this a shovelware product. They just show no passion for their product. They over-promise, under-deliver and go on to the next trendy thing which happens to be Industrial Annihilation.

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[h1]Anyone can promise you the heaven[/h1] [hr][/hr][i]Planetary Annihilation Inc developers are same developers behind Kerbal Space Program 2. They also had a disastorous kickstarter launch to the point that they had to delist old game and make a small expansion to get fresh reviews. This studio has a habit of overpromising and underdelivering. This game is no exception.[/i][hr][/hr] [h1]💖A single thing of interest💖[/h1] Is its planetary annhilation. This game allows you to fight through multiple different planets and end game tools literally destroy planets. Either it would be by making a projectile out of small planet or a massive cannon which destroys other worlds or just plain, good, old Doomsday device which is going to jihad the planet when it is done. Game is fun at this scale. It is fun to propel the entire moon to your enemy and destroy his entire planet. This is what I enjoyed about this game. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3066270816 [h1]🔥Over-promised and under-delivered🔥[/h1] This game reeks of just one thing. Inability for studio to deliver a good product. Everything what this game does implies a game developer which bitten more than it can chew. Nothing in this is done well. Graphics, scale, balancing, bugs, audio, personality, gameplay systems. No aspect of this game is well executed. It plays as a vastly inferior version of a Supreme Commander. It is ought to be successor to an ancient Total Annihilation from 1997. However, even compared to that game it looks somehow worse. [list] [b][i]Gameplay[/i][/b] [*]There is very little what is interesting about this game. Does it have great economy system like in Supreme Commander? No. It is very easy to float resources doing any kind of expanding. Meta from what I had heard then naturally devolves into who can spam the quickest. There are no tactical options. No factions. Only a player which can outproduce enemy the fastest matter. Units are damn cheap and effective. From the moment you start, you will have a never ending stream of them. This makes all late game units kinda pointless, because games rarely would get to the point where it would matter. It is kind of a game where each player agrees to sit on their own for a few hours and build up slowly with no pressure rather than jumping into mindless spam which competitive game is. It speaks volumes that a Supreme Commander player does not like the gameplay and its spamminess. There in that game, everything is balanced. In this, it just feels like all the pieces were dropped in without any care how they each interact with each other. [b][i]Presentation[/i][/b] [*]Remember when I said that Total Annihilation from 1997 looks better? I’m not joking. Game looks and feels terrible. Developer does that shady thing of misrepresenting their game in screenshots. In this case, screenshots are totaly made up. Graphics in this game is absolutely awful. There is no detail in this game. Each unit seems like uninspired, AI generated lego construct. Terrain is bland. Structures look just bad. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3066271304 This does not end here. Detail of units are lacking. Sprites from 1997 look better. Terrain is actually more detailed with hills and rivers. Buildings are distinct from each other. Units make individual sounds. In this game, it is stock pew pew sounds for everything. Even Titans are not impressive. They are in screenshots, but in game they are just as ugly as everything else. [b][i]Bugs[/i][/b] [*]Initial impression was terrible. I started tutorial, but I wanted to improve my graphical settings. Game crashed. I tried loading the tutorial, game was all white. I tried to play galactic conquest, jumped into a game. I could not save game nor quit from menu. Eventually game crashed after going to third person view. Game is a technical mess. I experienced constant crashing and it is not just my system: https://steamcommunity.com/app/386070/discussions/0/7098294290806571322/ While developers or hard-die fans are mindlessly bringing troubleshoot links for users, it doesn’t address any of known bugs and generally are unhelpful advise like: “update your drivers”. Empty advise just to soften the criticism. The fact that there are known multiple crashes which affects players and developers never fixed them speaks very poorly about them. If they had left this game in such a state, how anyone can trust them with any other product which they make in the future? False advertisements, game-breaking bugs which were left completely ignored. [/list] [h1]☠️Just No☠️[/h1] This is one of the most disappointing games out there. It struggles to compete with game out of 1997. Beyond all reason mod is better than this paid game. Supreme Commander from 2007 is still king. This game offers very little to the player. There are better alternatives left and right. Furthermore, controversy of a kickstarter, false advertising on a steam store page via screenshots and long unaddressed critical bugs makes this a shovelware product. They just show no passion for their product. They over-promise, under-deliver and go on to the next trendy thing which happens to be Industrial Annihilation. [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Calicifer/discussions/0/3878221733390982088/][i]Calicifer’s Reviews[/i][/url] [quote]If you are interested reading full review or want to discuss something with me, please follow the provided link. I do not allow endless discussions under my reviews, because it rarely ends well.[/quote]