Total War: WARHAMMER II

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  • Publisher: Sega
  • Release Date: Sep 28, 2017
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7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 603 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 462 out of 603
  2. Mixed: 66 out of 603
  3. Negative: 75 out of 603
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  1. PenetratorGod
    Aug 26, 2023
    8
    Successful and good game. I've played over 100 hours but it has a depth of content that feels like I could play forever. Only problems with the game are the extremely long loading screens and optimization issues. Despite being an old game, PC performance is not as good as it should be.
  2. Keron_Heruman
    Aug 25, 2023
    9
    Beautiful, huge, complex, superb grand strategy game with the awesome option to implement the map and factions of the previous game... In the other hand it includes less faction than previous game with worse DLC politic and appears to be only a remake of WTW1
  3. erfunfazli
    Aug 6, 2023
    8
    It's one of the good total war series game but absolutely not the best.
    Almost every gameplay mechanisms and parts in the campaign are as they should be.
    Of course, the same old process still continues and some details are missing in the game like naval battles or family tree and ... Apparently, they have hidden a series of deficiencies behind the theme of the game. I think the    It's one of the good total war series game but absolutely not the best.
    Almost every gameplay mechanisms and parts in the campaign are as they should be.
    Of course, the same old process still continues and some details are missing in the game like naval battles or family tree and ...
    Apparently, they have hidden a series of deficiencies behind the theme of the game.
    I think the research tree was acceptable and also diplomacy is good although it could have been have some more options in diplomacy but it's acceptable.
    I really didn't liked agents and their abilities.
    About battles the first thing I should say is about enemy, AI stupidity and bugs are much less.
    But I think Warhammer 2 has the most untacticable battles. I can almost say when you are weaker you should lose and it' so hard to change it.
    Even There is no units formation option in battle and it's really bad.
    The maximum number of armies is not based on the number of settlements and I like the new mechanism. But there is a problem here. When you take most of the settlements of a big and powerful Faction and only one or two settlements remain, now since the decrease in the number of their settlements does not decrease the number of Armies, you have to defeat a large number of Armies gathered in one Province.
    And about factions designs, the game has many different races and every race has its own faction and unit design and this vast design is really impressive. Just I think some faction's units are unbalanced and maybe it would be better if it wasn't like that.
    Also soundtrack is good but not as much as old total war games.
    In the end I should say that, I really liked Warhammer 2 and I played it for many hours it's a real good game but if there were more details that I talked about, it could have been a great game for me.    … Expand
  4. GrumpySarcasm
    Jun 20, 2023
    4
    I feel very conflicted about this game. I have spent over a 100 hours in this game but the longer you play the more the faults of the game shine through.

    My main complaint is that the campaign AI is TERRIBLE. In order for the AI to be competitive they receive massive bonuses to everythin. Some examples: The AI cannot be relied upon to build the correct buildings so they will just have    I feel very conflicted about this game. I have spent over a 100 hours in this game but the longer you play the more the faults of the game shine through.

    My main complaint is that the campaign AI is TERRIBLE. In order for the AI to be competitive they receive massive bonuses to everythin. Some examples:
    The AI cannot be relied upon to build the correct buildings so they will just have the ability to recruit whatever units they want no matter the buildings. They get enormous bonuses population growth and happiness. These are just a couple of examples, and this means that a strategy to make the enemy populace rebel is just impossible because the AI gets such a huge bonus to population happiness.

    Only one map. I get that this is the warhammer world map. But the game would just be infinitely more replayable if it was not the same map every time.

    Diplomacy is useless and only serves to be annoying. The mod "no diplomacy" is basically a requirement to play this game without going insane.

    Units and combat tactics are very poorly balanced.

    This game is fun in the beginning, but the more you play the more the problems with the game become obvious. In my opinion the DLC monetization model has failed this game. Instead of improving the game they are adding more unique lords and unbalanced units.    … Expand
  5. HydrophobikFish
    Jun 9, 2023
    8
    Incredible faction variety and presentation. Hundreds or thousands of hours worth of replayability. Held back by bugs, and some factions being obviously outdated or insufficient compared to newer ones. Amazing DLC scheme is worth mentioning, only buy what you want to play because all DLC units are in the game to play against regardless of ownership.
  6. taylor50737
    May 26, 2023
    2
    Very buggy. Worst game in the whole series! Very greedy company, dont buy their game.
  7. LionElJonson
    Dec 10, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Masterpiece! I play it all the time while I listen to podcasts.

    Plenty of DLCs that will provide you hundreds of hours of gaming with multiple races, one of the best warhammer games.    … Expand
  8. Maciejon
    Sep 6, 2022
    9
    Simply amaznig game, high cost and many dlcs but for hunderds of hours. lots of replayability
  9. DarkLordNoodlez
    Aug 5, 2022
    10
    Not only the most fun Total War game ever, but also THE most fun game ever. The mechanics are all wonderfully implemented, the soundtrack be banger yo, the visuals are stunning, the voice actors went all out, and of course the gameplay is unrivaled.
  10. Gover
    Aug 5, 2022
    0
    This game is pretty good, not the biggest fan of RTS, but I can enjoy this game for its value.
  11. Psendo
    Jul 13, 2022
    10
    So glad I tried this game. Had enormous fun with it. Really enjoyed the battles which were easy to pick up, as was the incremental learning curve which was interesting and felt comfortable. Had a blast. Definitely a fan, recommended!
  12. APBLVHC
    Jun 14, 2022
    2
    Very weak optimization. Intel cpu based game only. A shame. A game of 2017, running poorly on a 2020 pc. Absolutely shameful.
  13. Yaav13
    May 9, 2022
    7
    My truthful honorable incorruptible conclusive rating of this considered game: 7.
  14. Deathseller
    Feb 17, 2022
    0
    The game is just crashes on the launch. I tried all the fixes that are proposed on the Internet and non of them helped.
  15. Watson0l0
    Dec 23, 2021
    8
    Excellent design, spectacular battles, warhammer fantasy setting, but monotonous tactical battles, a sea of add-ons at an unjustified price, scarcity of animations make the game perfect for fans of this setting. As the total var game is average, it is a pity that it will continue to be so in the third part and in historical games.
  16. Paciorr
    Oct 20, 2021
    8
    I'm McLoving it! Game's great and gets only better with every patch and expansion CA releases. Can't wait for TWWH3
  17. VReview
    Jul 18, 2021
    9
    By far the most addicting and time-consuming game I've ever played, please play responsibly. This is my first Total War game and when I lost my first campaign, I honestly felt like quitting. I watched a couple YouTube videos, hopped back on and won my first campaign 60 hours in. There's still so many factions and campaigns to try, and I still suck at battles, but the learning curve is notBy far the most addicting and time-consuming game I've ever played, please play responsibly. This is my first Total War game and when I lost my first campaign, I honestly felt like quitting. I watched a couple YouTube videos, hopped back on and won my first campaign 60 hours in. There's still so many factions and campaigns to try, and I still suck at battles, but the learning curve is not as steep as you would think. There's easily hundreds of hours of fun packed into here, with lots of free DLCs. Highly recommend.… Expand
  18. StrangerMerso
    Jun 19, 2021
    0
    **** retarded garbage with broken gameplay
    0 balance
    100 random ****
    also waiting simulator
  19. Durgrim
    Jun 3, 2021
    9
    I'm I the exact target audience for this game? Yes
    Is this a perfect game ? Absolutely no
    Did i spent more than 2000 hours finishing almost every campaign? Of course I did

    If you liked Warhammer Fantasy Battle this is a dream come true.
    If you just like strategy games this is probably the best chapter in the Total War series
  20. Vulgrim
    May 26, 2021
    6
    If you want to play as elves or skaven, and you don't pay too much attention to lore etc. this is a very good title. Unfortunately, like all Total War games, he suffers from some ills, adding his own. In its current state, with all (except the last) DLC and FLC, it provides fun for tens of hours. The following rating is based on the complete title with all available content:

    + Number of    If you want to play as elves or skaven, and you don't pay too much attention to lore etc. this is a very good title. Unfortunately, like all Total War games, he suffers from some ills, adding his own. In its current state, with all (except the last) DLC and FLC, it provides fun for tens of hours. The following rating is based on the complete title with all available content:

    + Number of playable lords
    + Mechanics of some factions
    + Graphics and audio
    + Wood Elven Re-balance
    + Quantity and visual aspect of the Tradition of Magic
    + Mortal Empire campaign
    + MODS (SFO especially)

    - Lords are not as interesting or even playable
    - Mortal Empire campaign is not a "linked map", to fit the map from one, large areas of the map have been cut out of two (in the south and west)
    - The game has an undead pirate faction, but still no naval battles
    - Some campaigns are stupid to win conditions or require defeating factions on the other side of the map
    - Buggy achievements
    - PRICE    … Expand
  21. Vaulie
    May 12, 2021
    8
    Easily the best Warhammer and Total War game in either series. 30 hours into the High Elf campaign and im not sure I have the stamina for any of the others just yet, but after some very memorable battles defending Ulthuan from CONSTANT skaven ambushes and feeling sure I had conqured the northern wastes. The final battle makes it worth it, especially seing the Old World realised like this.Easily the best Warhammer and Total War game in either series. 30 hours into the High Elf campaign and im not sure I have the stamina for any of the others just yet, but after some very memorable battles defending Ulthuan from CONSTANT skaven ambushes and feeling sure I had conqured the northern wastes. The final battle makes it worth it, especially seing the Old World realised like this. Great game.… Expand
  22. garyw_81
    Apr 25, 2021
    10
    best RTS ever made?, probably
    should prefice this by saying that I am a warhammer fan in general so perhaps I am a little biased.
    for me the whole system is(you can tweek things o your like i.e you can turn off the chaos invasion) fantastic and it has a fantastic fantasy setting which for me puts it above the other TW games.
  23. GJA
    Apr 20, 2021
    6
    Better than the last but still not a good total war game. Many total war features were simplified for casuals that are new to the genre and overall the game is much easier. The only good thing it has is the fantasy setting but there isn't much replayability once you have tried each one of the races.
  24. Mandulum
    Apr 18, 2021
    8
    Very similar to the first one. I wish they would have done more with the story but it's still rather enjoyable.

    Date Completed: 2021-04-18
    Playtime: 44h
    Enjoyment: 8/10
    Recommendation: I enjoyed it so I'd say "yes".
  25. nobugs
    Apr 9, 2021
    0
    Worst game ever made. thank god sega doesnt make consoles anymore. It is well known that SEGA implements AI that cheats if you are doing too well. They ruined Company of Heroes and Total War. They cant even make a decent sonic game anymore. If i ever meet a SEGA employee, i have 2 middle fingers waiting to flick you off! They should call is White Hammer since they hate nonwhite people soWorst game ever made. thank god sega doesnt make consoles anymore. It is well known that SEGA implements AI that cheats if you are doing too well. They ruined Company of Heroes and Total War. They cant even make a decent sonic game anymore. If i ever meet a SEGA employee, i have 2 middle fingers waiting to flick you off! They should call is White Hammer since they hate nonwhite people so much there isnt 1 man or woman character that is not white… Expand
  26. Mister_Jey
    Jan 12, 2021
    8
    → Mortal Empires, mon amour !
    dans la continuité du premier opus,Total War reprend le chemin de l'heroic-fantasy avec ce deuxième opus de Warhammer. L'énorme plus réside dans Mortal Empires, qui permet en effet de fusionner les deux maps (à condition de posséder les deux jeux), pour une aventure épique en terme de durée de vie et vraiment incroyable en terme de contenu. Encore une belle    → Mortal Empires, mon amour !
    dans la continuité du premier opus,Total War reprend le chemin de l'heroic-fantasy avec ce deuxième opus de Warhammer. L'énorme plus réside dans Mortal Empires, qui permet en effet de fusionner les deux maps (à condition de posséder les deux jeux), pour une aventure épique en terme de durée de vie et vraiment incroyable en terme de contenu. Encore une belle réussite, à quand un Total War dans l'univers de Game of Thrones ?!

    Sortie en septembre 2017 / Développé par Creative Assembly.    … Expand
  27. EyesofWrath
    Jan 10, 2021
    8
    I'm only about 10 hours into the game at the moment, and for a Total War game, that leaves a lot of ground to be covered. But after years of watching this game and waiting for a moment where its price dipped to a point that I could afford *and* my head was in the right place to fully indulge the game, I finally got my claws on it and felt eager to offer some of my impressions for anyone inI'm only about 10 hours into the game at the moment, and for a Total War game, that leaves a lot of ground to be covered. But after years of watching this game and waiting for a moment where its price dipped to a point that I could afford *and* my head was in the right place to fully indulge the game, I finally got my claws on it and felt eager to offer some of my impressions for anyone in the same boat.

    First thing's first - the game isn't *that* much different from its predecessor. More than anything, it's a different setting with different playable races in the same world. The game is functionally the same in terms of its general mechanics and presentation. The main campaign revolves around the opening and closing of a magical Vortex in the Elven lands and seems to place its story in a much more central role than the previous game. I'm not gonna lie, I don't much care about that story. Total War has always been about chasing supremacy, and while I appreciate the fact that they've tried to develop a narrative, I can't say I've found a lot of time to divert my actions to what the story wants me to achieve when I've got two factions of undead pirates with seemingly endless resources at their disposal constantly raiding my territories.

    I didn't ask them to attack me. The game made that happen. So it's a bit frustrating to be strategising, building armies, maneuvering them into place and getting ready for the coup de gras, only for the game to strip control away from you and move the camera to some other area in which a bunch of magic stuff is going on that means absolutely nothing to me, and then hits me with half a dozen pop-ups with timed missions pertaining to everything other than the immediate existential threat to my civilisation.

    I can't account for Warhammer 1, as it's been a while since I've played it, but I don't recall ever struggling so much against individual enemies as I have against these pirates. They live on isolated atolls out in the middle of the ocean, so you have to rally your army and take them on a 3 turn journey to get to their stronghold. On the way you might encounter a pirate army that chips away at your forces, and attrition from being in corrupted territory might make you weaker still. Then, when you finally get to their last settlement, you find it's full of 2000 pirate soldiers and monsters. You've come all this way, so you attack, and you put on a good show - taking out 75% of their forces, but losing the battle. So you have to journey back to your lands 3 turns away to muster more forces, and when you return you find that the single, lone settlement the pirates hold is suddenly filled to the brim with soldiers, as well as two full armies floating around the area.

    Seems a bit unfair that you have to own 6-8 settlements to get one full army of reasonable strength without bankrupting your nation, while the pirates are here pumping 5 thousand soldiers out in a few turns from one location. The end result is that you spend hours trying to whittle them down to the last man, only to have it all undone in 10 minutes and their armies replenished to full strength straight away. I've should have accepted it when they sued for peace. Instead I've wasted a bunch of time fighting for an objective that now seems insurmountable, and I've had to disengage and wait for them to lay waste to my nearest city while I'm distracted. I guess that's war against the undead for you. I've read complaints about the game tweaking the rules for CPU armies. Maybe this is what that is.

    I also recently realised that certain elements of the game have been paywalled in a way I don't recall from the first. Namely, that you can't confederate with factions within your own race if they have paid DLC attached to them. An example of this is the Yvresse faction of Elves. The game gave me a mission to ally with them, so I did. Now they're my greatest ally, and own a bunch of territory I helped them acquire, and I can't confederate with them because controlling their Lord requires paid DLC. Putting them in the game for free inclines the player to invest in them, only find a big dollar-sign roadblock in their way. It's sneaky and gross.

    That said, it can't be denied that most of what made Warhammer 1 good is on display here. And the fact that you get the Mortal Empires sandbox mode, in which you can play on a giant map of the combined areas of both games, with 117 playable factions, is just bonkers. That's perhaps the best reason to buy. But because of the frustrating DLC and suspicious AI, I'd still say the game is only worth it at a steep discount. 90 bucks for a three-year-old game that pressures you to pay for DLC in order to stop basic diplomatic gameplay being gated off from factions it gives you no choice but to interact with...it's just not worth it.

    Go for number 1 first, or if you have it, get this and play Mortal Empires.    … Expand
  28. zombox5000
    Jan 6, 2021
    6
    I love the way the game captures the huge scale of the wars between the factions. The only problem continues to be the lazy AI that all Total War games use. The challenge comes in the form of the computer opponents cheating to instant build huge armies or create units that they clearly couldn't (and faster than they should be able to). They also don't have to deal with territorialI love the way the game captures the huge scale of the wars between the factions. The only problem continues to be the lazy AI that all Total War games use. The challenge comes in the form of the computer opponents cheating to instant build huge armies or create units that they clearly couldn't (and faster than they should be able to). They also don't have to deal with territorial stability or politics and the computer will always favor attacking a player over another PC, regardless of political affiliation. If the developers would fix these issues, the game would truly be amazing.… Expand
  29. Steve4500
    Dec 28, 2020
    10
    Metacritic, a place for raging gamers to slate games, and paid reviewers to unjustly inflate positive reviews. Total War: Warhammer 2 however, is a an absolute masterpiece.

    Total War meets Warhammer, is there anything more to say? I would only critise the DLC prices.
  30. SkoneOke123
    Dec 15, 2020
    10
    Not only the best Warhammer Fantasy Game, but also one of the best Total War games.
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#14 Best PC Game of 2017
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 69 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 66 out of 69
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 69
  3. Negative: 0 out of 69
  1. The Digital Fix
    Mar 25, 2019
    90
    In short, Total War: Warhammer II offers plenty of content for fans of strategy games, Warhammer and Total Warhammer fans, and new starters to the genre. It is easily one of the genre's finest, standing alongside X-Com 2 as one of the best PC games of the last few years.
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  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Feb 16, 2018
    100
    An innovative, original structure built on the solid foundations of the first game has exceedingly succeeded. Who was afraid that at second Warhammer developers will lose their breath, was terribly mistaken. [Issue#279]
  3. GameCritics
    Jan 23, 2018
    85
    As weird as some the diplomacy and other mechanics can be, it’s an impressive title with a ton of depth to get stuck into. Now, I’d better get back to my current mission in progress — those enemy armies won’t eat themselves, after all.
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