Total Annihilation
"Total Annihilation" was one of the first RTS games to feature radar that showed enemy units within its radius on the minimap. This added an additional element of electronic warfare to the game: players could construct radar jammers that prevented units in a small radius around them from appearing on radar. Mobile radar jammers could be used to create surprise attacks, necessitating the deployment of scout units on a regular basis to reveal said units visually. In addition, radar jammers could disguise the presence of visually cloaked units, such as the commander or land mines. Radar fields rendered cloaked units detectable; a radar jammer could make said units undetectable until the radar jammer was destroyed. "Total Annihilation" was also one of the first RTS games to point the way towards battlefields with hundreds and thousands of units. Previous games could field a hundred units or so. However, Total Annihilation initially permitted 250 units per side which was later patched to 500. A third party patch allowed up to 5,000 units per side.
Total War (series)
On 2 July 2012, The Creative Assembly announced "Total War: Rome II" with a live action trailer that features different scenes with the theme, "How far will you go for Rome?". Work on the title began during the development of "Total War: Shogun 2". The Creative Assembly announced that the game would have a bigger map than its predecessor, "Rome: Total War", it will "go more to the east", have many new game features and that it will have new camera views in-battle, allowing the player to see the battle from almost every angle. They further claimed that the game was developed using a new programming system, which allows it to achieve graphical quality never seen before in the "Total War" series, including dynamic facial expressions. The game was released on 3 September 2013. This title hit record high pre-order sales for The Creative Assembly, with the Greek States Culture Pack unlocking Sparta, Athens and Epirus in the campaign as a pre-order bonus. The initial release suffered from significant performance issues as well as having many bugs which severely affected gameplay.