Total War: WARHAMMER III

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  • Publisher: Sega
  • Release Date: Feb 17, 2022
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  • Summary: Far beyond the world and its petty wars there exists a dimension of pure, malevolent magic: The Realm of Chaos. It is a terrible place, incomprehensible to the mortal mind. It whispers promises of power, but to behold it is to be seduced by it. To relinquish your soul to it. To become it.Far beyond the world and its petty wars there exists a dimension of pure, malevolent magic: The Realm of Chaos. It is a terrible place, incomprehensible to the mortal mind. It whispers promises of power, but to behold it is to be seduced by it. To relinquish your soul to it. To become it.

    The four Ruinous Powers rule over this place, ever seeking to slip their bonds and engulf the world in a tide of daemonic corruption. Nurgle, the plague god; Slaanesh, the lord of excess; Tzeentch, the changer of ways; and Khorne, the god of blood and slaughter.

    On the border between the worlds, two mighty kingdoms stand sentinel: the stern warriors of Kislev and the vast empire of Grand Cathay. But each is beset by its own trials, and now both have cause to cross the threshold and send their armies into the Realm of Chaos.

    The world stands on a precipice. A single push will plunge it into cataclysm. And there is one who schemes to achieve just that, an ancient figure who desires nothing less than to wield supreme power. But to succeed, he will need a champion...    … Expand

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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 61 out of 65
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 65
  3. Negative: 0 out of 65
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 30, 2024
    100
    Although the Immortal Empires format, which will combine all three games into one large map, was not yet available at the time of review, the world itself is large even in the individual parts. Its treatment and variety of climatic zones and chaotic crevasses deserve high praise, and the freedom of creative license has been used to the fullest by the authors at Creative Assembly in this regard as well. [Issue#318]
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  2. PC Games
    Feb 14, 2022
    90
    Creative Assembly goes big with this final outing of the Warhammer trilogy. For veterans, it offers large amounts of content, most notably a total of eight playable races as well as an enhanced diplomacy system. However, it is also the first Total War game that considers new players by giving them a lengthy prologue campaign for learning the ropes. The game is still difficult though and suffers in parts from weak AI. Nevertheless, it is an amazing new title for the series – for newcomers and veterans alike.
  3. COGconnected
    Mar 8, 2022
    90
    Total War: Warhammer 3 is the perfect culmination to a trilogy of generally excellent games. The third installment has both a must-play prologue and story campaign that is fast-paced and takes the gameplay in new directions. Long after the campaign is over, quality of life improvements and the new setting guarantee a long life for single-player skirmishes and multiplayer games. Total War: Warhammer 3 is a winner for both casual and hardcore Warhammer fans or any real-time strategy player looking for a game with depth.
  4. Merlin'in Kazanı (Turkey)
    Feb 14, 2022
    87
    Total War: Warhammer 3 is the epic conclusion to a trilogy that has elevated the Creative Assembly formula.
  5. MGG
    Feb 18, 2022
    85
    Total War: Warhammer 3 is the conclusion of the Warhammer cycle for a saga initiated 22 years ago. Without upsetting the fundamentals, this new Total War is the culmination of the saga with a game that is deeper than ever (with the possibility to play peacefully), very rich in content with eight factions (and as many campaigns) while having a neat and optimized technical part.
  6. Edge Magazine
    Mar 24, 2022
    80
    We're ready to see what the future holds for The Creative Assembly after Total War. We're also, however, delighted by the studio's seemingly indefatigable ability to bend its own rules and brew up new playstyles, as it brings one of gaming's greatest licensed adaptations to a thunderous conclusion. [Issue#370, p.114]
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  7. GameSpot
    Mar 2, 2022
    60
    Warhammer 3 opens strongly. The narrative hook of the prologue sinks deep and the raft of tweaks to the strategic layer and tactical battles are all welcome. But it can't sustain the early momentum. The endgame objectives feel like a distraction, even though they're the main point, and serve only to diminish the entire campaign. The factions all have different reasons for wanting the endgame MacGuffin, but none of those motivations make a difference to how the campaign plays out. They're all trapped in the same Chaos Realm, going through the same motions, in pursuit of the same unsatisfying win conditions. In the end, Total War: Warhammer 3 is a good game--there just isn't a good reason to see it through to the bitter end.

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  1. Positive: 52 out of 158
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 158
  3. Negative: 88 out of 158
  1. biniu10
    Feb 18, 2022
    10
    Best Total War game ever. If you like Wh1 and Wh2, you will love Wh3. Don't look at bad reviews spam from angry chinese players, try itBest Total War game ever. If you like Wh1 and Wh2, you will love Wh3. Don't look at bad reviews spam from angry chinese players, try it yourself. You will immerse in fantastic world, well designed factions and characters, gigantic battles. I absolutely love this game and my adventure only begins. Can't wait to see what CA has prepared for us in next years, It's great base for fantastic dlc and expansions. GOTY for me… Expand
  2. benjaminva
    Mar 9, 2022
    10
    Visuals are great and it there is a lot more narrative involved in the game, also huge improvement in diplomacy. I see a lot of peopleVisuals are great and it there is a lot more narrative involved in the game, also huge improvement in diplomacy. I see a lot of people complaining that TW2 is better, and I also have about 1800 + hours in TW2, however TW3 has been out for just 1 month, it took TW2 about two years to get as good as it is with the dlcs and the mods workshop. TW3 is it good enough for me as it is, and I know that it will only get better the same way TW1 and TW2 did, I look forward to playing the other campaigns as well.

    Also I haven´t crashes and I´m at 70 hours play time, I´m running a GTX 1660 Ti on windows 11    … Expand
  4. The_VoidX
    Feb 23, 2022
    9
    Für mich ein guter 3. Teil der Total War: Warhammer Reihe. Der Prolog bietet eine gute Story und einen guten Einstieg in die Reiche des ChaosFür mich ein guter 3. Teil der Total War: Warhammer Reihe. Der Prolog bietet eine gute Story und einen guten Einstieg in die Reiche des Chaos Kampagne. Schon viele Stunden mit Freunden im Koop und der Alten Welt verbracht. Klare Empfehlung.… Expand
  5. Wpaine
    Feb 22, 2022
    3
    Start this off by saying this is my first Warhammer game but have enjoyed other total war games, most recently Troy. There are some goodStart this off by saying this is my first Warhammer game but have enjoyed other total war games, most recently Troy. There are some good qualities about the game but I have two major gripes that really need some work.

    1. The rifts opening up in your territory is infuriating and honestly pretty stupid. The “corruption” they cause is just as bad so I feel like I’m spending more time babysitting the rift spawns than actually playing the game. I have to amass a bunch of tiny crap armies to ensure my land won’t get absolutely eaten by armies coming through the rift or corruption causing rebellion and I never want to play these fights because they do not pose a real threat and if you make any advancements in your territory you will be encountering a ton of these fights.

    2. This is honestly the worst one, I missed the first rift event on my play through not thinking it was that big of a deal, never missed one after, and this put me behind and I lost. I really have no idea how I could have came back, and I really didn’t think that just missing one event would be so catastrophic that it would ruin the entire run. I had no idea who had claimed the souls before me so it was impossible for me to attack that nation and to ensure they couldn’t win. It would have been great to know or have an option to prevent them from just outright winning but sadly that isn’t an option so I ended up wasting a good 12 hours worth of play time.

    Some other minor issues I had was the game crashes all the time. I also felt like my units were consisted of a bunch of morons that I had to constantly babysit so they didn’t just stand there and get murdered. It felt like the AI knew when my archers were in skirmish mode and would run at them until they turned around (they were behind a line of infantry mind you) and they would then stop and let their archers fire on me and I wouldn’t be firing back. Not the biggest issue most of the time but often I’d get stuck toying with my cavalry and had forgotten to take them off skirmish so my front line would get hit 2-3 times before I caught on. Also on some higher difficulties it feels as though, no matter the infantry, my units just lose in hand to hand combat. It felt undeserved in many cases as I’d have two superior units fighting one and they would just lose making it feel like an artificial challenge because the devs can’t create a smart enough AI to actually challenge the user!

    On the other hand the game is not all bad and I’m sure with a couple of balancing patches it will be better just kind of disappointing at release    … Expand
  6. Cinecz
    Aug 16, 2023
    1
    Game itself is not that but but the support of it is abysmal, paid DLCs are broken (Alariel and Nakai) and do not recieve bugfixes. Do not recomend
  7. Davitt333
    Aug 24, 2023
    0
    I love Warhammer and Total War, so I invested a lot of time in the hope of what was to come. What was to come has not come, and is not coming.I love Warhammer and Total War, so I invested a lot of time in the hope of what was to come. What was to come has not come, and is not coming. Here are the main issues why I do not like this game, and would recommend Warhammer 2 over it:

    - Sieges: I don't know how they did it, but they made the worst sieges I have witnessed in the Total War franchise. They have no plans to fix this, and in a war game, this is a critical mistake.

    - Balancing: Chaos rules all in this game. Human factions are weak and in dire need of updates to make them even playable.

    - Networking: Loads of crashes and glitches while playing online, leading to lots of restarting and lost save files.

    - DLC pricing: It seems CA is giving less content for double the price, which really makes me worried as this game is supposed to be given content for 10 years. I'm not sure if I want to pay that money for such little content when the base game is so lacking already.

    All in all, I am pretty disappointed. I'll stick with Total War mods on the older games and Warhammer 2.    … Expand
  8. Zaqwerfv
    Feb 28, 2022
    0
    Everyone hated the siege battles. Solution: Make sure roughly 80% of all battles are siege battles now. Probably 4 out of 10 on it’s own,Everyone hated the siege battles. Solution: Make sure roughly 80% of all battles are siege battles now. Probably 4 out of 10 on it’s own, badly designed game. But the fact that they took a 8 out of 10 game (cool but with some **** parts) and expanded the **** parts all over it gets them no points. (And may God have mercy on their souls.)… Expand

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