Planetary Annihilation is a real-time strategy game founded on a dream, and funded on an image. The dream was a noble one: the robotic conflict of Total Annihilation on an interplanetary scale. 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.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.
For posterity's sake, then: is this the biggest, silliest RTS ever?
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