I also really loved the music. Since the game just played the music off the CD, I simply recorded the music to tape so I could listen to it in my car. I still listen to it whenever I find myself with a long highway and “enemies” surrounding me…although thinking about it, I suppose that would be a bit dangerous. B-)

The key things for me with TA were:
#1 – The SCADS of units, particularly with the free downloads and the Core Contingency expansion. It seemed that whenever someone discovered a “cheap” exploit, they’d release a new unit that provided a reasonably effective counter.

#2 – Going along with #1 – the amazing variety of tactics you could use. There were just so many different “points of weakness” you could try to exploit. You could brute-force their military. You could attack either their energy or metal infrastructure. You could attack their constructors. You could attack the enemy commander (crippling even if that wasn’t a win condition). You could attack their intelligence (primarily the radar systems, through stealth or knocking out the systems). You could do weird things, like the “Commander Valkarie Snatch” or transport crawling mines by aircraft to create poor-man’s nukes earlier in the game. There was just an incredible depth in that complexity.

#3 – The MOTION in the game – the 3D models rocked, dove, swept around in an illusion of movement that really added to the feeling of being given a birds-eye-view of a real war.

#4 – The music. The music is one of my all-time favorite game soundtracks, which I still listen to just for fun. It was wonderfully epic-sounding.