Total War: WARHAMMER III

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  • Publisher: Sega
  • Release Date: Feb 17, 2022
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  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 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 fantasticBest 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. SixDoorSedan
    Mar 22, 2022
    1
    The laziness and lack of testing this game has is obvious and egregious. The fact that the supply line bug was in the game at launch at all and that it isn't getting a hotfix alone is just awful. CA as a company being behind on hotfixes and even coldfixes historically when compared to other companies doesn't really have an excuse. This game was in development for 6 years, they didn't touchThe laziness and lack of testing this game has is obvious and egregious. The fact that the supply line bug was in the game at launch at all and that it isn't getting a hotfix alone is just awful. CA as a company being behind on hotfixes and even coldfixes historically when compared to other companies doesn't really have an excuse. This game was in development for 6 years, they didn't touch WH2 bugs and problems for a majority of this time and this buggy mess is what we get? I would bet money that CA's management is who's to blame here and it was a miracle it had a delayed release, because I don't want to think about what it would've looked like if it was released earlier.

    CA needs to listen to the playerbases' feedback and change the game accordingly or else this will just devolve into definitely the bottom of the barrel amongst their other releases alone, and there's Atilla and Rome 2 to compete with. And what's with their focus on multiplayer gameplay and feedback? Why aren't changes to units separate between multiplayer and and campaign?

    Wouldn't reccomend this game to people who like the streategy genre. If they make massive changes to the game then it could be salvaged.    … Expand
  3. neffu
    Apr 24, 2022
    0
    I bought a game that is so unfun, it's impossible to play. Campaign is so bad. I loved wh1 and wh2. But this is terrible. Now, many people expect immortal empires campaign to fix this problem. But there is one more issue that, unless changed, also makes the game unfun - minor settlement battles. It's a choir to fight them. If those types of battles were scarce, then yeah, once in a while iI bought a game that is so unfun, it's impossible to play. Campaign is so bad. I loved wh1 and wh2. But this is terrible. Now, many people expect immortal empires campaign to fix this problem. But there is one more issue that, unless changed, also makes the game unfun - minor settlement battles. It's a choir to fight them. If those types of battles were scarce, then yeah, once in a while i could play the choke point infested boring slug fest. But those battles are the majority of all battles. I almost don't get open field battles at all. If its not changed then even Immortal Empires won't be fun… Expand
  4. cabbages
    Mar 31, 2022
    2
    Its so, so broken. There's so many issues in this game that existed in rome, like 15 years ago, the UI, battle engine, ai strategy engine is all the same. All the issues from the very first game is here, it unbelievable that they are allowed to get away with this,
  5. barbone3
    Sep 12, 2022
    5
    One Word: Lag.
    The game is not even that good, it's a copy and paste from shogun.
  6. redbeerd
    May 19, 2022
    4
    TW: Warhammer II is one of my all time favorite computer games, so of course I bought this and, honestly, I don't get how this company could screw up so badly.

    This feels and plays like a middling mod for WH2. You get new map, units and factions, and that's pretty much where benefits end and problems begin. Performance is much worse than W:TW2 despite the map being smaller than ME.    TW: Warhammer II is one of my all time favorite computer games, so of course I bought this and, honestly, I don't get how this company could screw up so badly.

    This feels and plays like a middling mod for WH2. You get new map, units and factions, and that's pretty much where benefits end and problems begin. Performance is much worse than W:TW2 despite the map being smaller than ME. Graphics were not improved in any way. Bugs galore. The "tweaks" or "features" added are mostly failures - UI changes for worse, realm of chaos is clunky, new setlement-type battles with building stuff on the map are annoying.

    I give it a 4 because it still has the W:TW2 engine at heart, but honestly if you are new to the series - buy W:TW2 and skip this.    … Expand
  7. progamerr
    Apr 12, 2022
    0
    It's been so long since I wrote down a review. After all these years, I have wished to type pleasant words. Unfortunately, the gaming industry made huge disappointöment. Especially developers like Creative Assembly, which I'm gonna talk about them and their games.

    CA betrayed their real total war players. A couple of years ago, they bought Warhammer rights and began to invest in that    It's been so long since I wrote down a review. After all these years, I have wished to type pleasant words. Unfortunately, the gaming industry made huge disappointöment. Especially developers like Creative Assembly, which I'm gonna talk about them and their games.

    CA betrayed their real total war players. A couple of years ago, they bought Warhammer rights and began to invest in that franchise. Since then, all their historical content falling into decline. They became part of remastering trend like any other developers instead of presenting an entirely new historical game. We 'real' total war players have expected to see Medieval III total war. But the CA insisted to denied that request and never changed the idea of not making this game. The company lost its 'creativity' and truthfulness. Thankfully we have some great dedicated modders. We are able to play historical games despite even the vanilla version being unplayable. (such as total war kingdoms 1212 mod, for attila total war) The latest two historical entries of total war were also horrendous. These games are only playable with mods. Before diving into games themselves, you have to check out Steam workshop. It seems there will be no bright future for historical games. CA's failure to fulfill expectations is really frustrating.
    Furthermore, don't get me wrong. CA could develop and release Warhammer title I've no problem with that. But in my opinion, that Warhammer addiction of CA ruined real total war games. Not to mention many good other Warhammer games can be found on the market, like Warhammer 40k, which is far better than the CA invention 'total war version.

    In conclusion, not just CA itself, the whole gaming industry went into decline in the last decade. Maybe they read this feedback (highly doubt it) and reconsider their development and marketing strategy.
    PS: The good thing about Metacritic review is some edgy kids don't bother me with irrational replies. (yes I'm referring to youtube comments)    … Expand
  8. complivit27
    Apr 21, 2022
    0
    Ужасная и недоделанная игра. Создатели даже не потрудились исправить баги в прологе. На данный момент никому не рекомендую, надо ждать ещё полгода, а то и больше.
  9. Andrudis
    Aug 9, 2023
    1
    The worst of all Total War games... looks like devs are more interested in playing politics than in making good game...
  10. Morgrain
    Mar 30, 2022
    1
    Edit: After careful consideration (3 campaigns on vHard in, ~50 hours), I can no longer recommend the game.

    It's buggy. Performance is a joke (looks like WH II, tanks FPS in half), Engine is still old, design choices (rifts) are bad, give no sense of accomplishment when finishing a campaign and actively punish the player for expanding. The AI is still cheating like crazy. Total    Edit: After careful consideration (3 campaigns on vHard in, ~50 hours), I can no longer recommend the game.

    It's buggy. Performance is a joke (looks like WH II, tanks FPS in half), Engine is still old, design choices (rifts) are bad, give no sense of accomplishment when finishing a campaign and actively punish the player for expanding.

    The AI is still cheating like crazy.

    Total War AI has always been cheating. I had hopes that Creative Assembly would stop being lazy and

    a) modernize the Engine (10 Bit, HDR, proper multi core optimization, DX12 features, proper Surround Sound etc)
    b) give us naval battles
    c) properly code the AI
    d) especially fix pathfinding, since that has always been a major problem

    but in the end all we got is a TW WH II reskin with a new map and a couple minor mechanics (some are just reskins from WH II DLC variants) that tanked the FPS in half. It's a bit of a shame that CA wasn't able to deliver anything of meaning after 5 years of working on this game. The groundwork is old, the AI is still programmed bad, we have no naval battles and the pathfinding and collision system is still broken, also the armor system.

    Warhammer III deserves better. CA has the money to deliver better. So the question is: Why didn't they?

    Rift mechanic was fun when I first played a campaign, instantly when I started the second, it bothered me. It's no fun for replay. There should be a button to disable to campaign/rift mechanic, so we can just enjoy some campaign gameplay.

    And the performance... Warhammer III runs like crap. My 3090 can barely achieve 30-35 FPS, where WH II gave me 55-65 FPS. It's probably the old engine. It's still 8bit, no proper multicore optimization, no DX12 features that could give the GPU some headroom. That happens when you try and cramp in features into an old engine that wasn't made for it. CA went lazy and didn't want to properly update their engine, and here you have the result.

    Why don't we have a timeline for bug fixes and new features (IE)?

    This game has issues. Not only performance and in-game bugs, but also design choices (after max 2 campaigns, Rifts are just no fun anymore). The game actively punishes you if you dare expand, not to mention that Daemon of Chaos and Kislev are officially labelled as "newbie friendly", even though they are everything butt (getting swarmed by full stacks after a couple rounds from all directions is not newbie friendly). These are serious problems. The game has been released more than two weeks ago, "influencers" were able to play the game weeks before that. Meaning Creative Assembly had more than a month now to realize the issues at hand and make a timeline.

    Where is that timeline?

    Where is the list of issues that CA has managed to assemble? Share it with us, so we can complete that list.

    When can we expect to play the Immortals Empire campaign? There's no problem in saying: "We are focusing on addressing bugs and performance, IE is still two months out, maybe more", what is a problem is NOT talking about it.

    Warhammer III could be so much more.
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    Original review when the game launched:
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    TO ME, SONS OF SIGMAR! FOR THE EMPIRE!

    I can recommend this game.

    BUT it's unacceptable that Total War still has no native HDR support in 2022.

    Auto HDR is also currently not supported. That's a shame for an AAA title.

    It is also barely acceptable that we still have no Naval battles. Creative Assembly needs to up its game.    … Expand
  11. YourDad
    Mar 24, 2022
    1
    am I the only one who is really bothered by the units designs for example tzeenth flamers or horrors erc, this kind of units kinda shows me that the designers didnt even try to make anything new, but relied on player fanbase who will buy this game because of previous succeses. Each W2 DLC with new untis design had more serious and honest work into it then the whole W3 game, most allam I the only one who is really bothered by the units designs for example tzeenth flamers or horrors erc, this kind of units kinda shows me that the designers didnt even try to make anything new, but relied on player fanbase who will buy this game because of previous succeses. Each W2 DLC with new untis design had more serious and honest work into it then the whole W3 game, most all untis are just reskined, recouloured and reused, or are absolut effortless horrible new design without even trying to make a good design unit, I loved warhammer 2 but W3 really destroyed my will to play the game, sometimes I still play W2 mortal empires but the experience about the epic unit designs is absolutly destroyed and so my motivation to play warhammer at all.
    I kinda feel like the developers treat me as a player like an idiot, who you can sell every garbage.
    I mean come on .... look up the units ... !    … Expand
  12. nabb
    Jan 27, 2023
    0
    200€!?!?!
    **** game is a joke. I bought this and wanted to play a sandbox game with the wood elves. The game won't let me choose them if I don't have purchased the following: Warhammer 1, Warhammer 2, Warhammer 3, and wood elves DLC.
    Thats 200€! I bought the wood elves DLC for 20€ and this game for 60€ and cant even play it. That's 80€ wasted, what a **** joke. I don't even care what    200€!?!?!
    **** game is a joke. I bought this and wanted to play a sandbox game with the wood elves. The game won't let me choose them if I don't have purchased the following: Warhammer 1, Warhammer 2, Warhammer 3, and wood elves DLC.
    Thats 200€!
    I bought the wood elves DLC for 20€ and this game for 60€ and cant even play it. That's 80€ wasted, what a **** joke.

    I don't even care what the rest of the game looks like and don't want to play it any further thanks to this amount of "cash grab" in this. **** this game studio.

    I do not recommend this to anyone.    … Expand
  13. mrYellowDuck
    Apr 2, 2022
    0
    The game is broken. Do not remember when was the last time I have seen such a broken game, cyberpunk 2077 was perfect on release compared to this game.
    The price is too high for this DLC, and yes it is DLC NOT a new game. Nothing changed including graphic, ugly UI, and same mechanics. Really disappointed, had to return the game.
  14. DarkLordNoodlez
    Aug 5, 2022
    0
    THE worst game of all time. Every single aspect is implemented worse than both the prequal games. It runs so astronomically terrible, if you ever so much as crashed in Warhammer 2, you will not be able to play with graphic settings on anything higher than medium. So of course the visuals are garbage. There's no reason for the larger and harder to run game, given it arguably has lessTHE worst game of all time. Every single aspect is implemented worse than both the prequal games. It runs so astronomically terrible, if you ever so much as crashed in Warhammer 2, you will not be able to play with graphic settings on anything higher than medium. So of course the visuals are garbage. There's no reason for the larger and harder to run game, given it arguably has less content than Warhammer 2 (despite being twice the size). And while it will surely get good after many, many updates, that's no justification for the terrible quality on release. Not to mention how slowly they have been taking on even the slightest most insignificant updates. Even at times patching some of their patches out after realizing how stupid they were. It's really no wonder why Warhammer 2 has held a consistently higher average player base.… Expand
  15. eventus
    Apr 8, 2022
    2
    Worst of the three parts. Totally unbalance piece of **** Not even acceptable as a dlc
  16. Zweno1988
    May 17, 2022
    0
    Ставлю 0,хотя игра нормальная и играю с открытия серии Тотал Вар.
    1)Огромные технические проблемы, которые совсемне спешат устранять.
    2)Отсутствия полной русской локализации это вообще табу, я не хочу сидеть чё то там переводить, а хочу наслаждаться игрой. 3)Высокая цена в районе 3к за такое качество продукта.    Ставлю 0,хотя игра нормальная и играю с открытия серии Тотал Вар.
    1)Огромные технические проблемы, которые совсемне спешат устранять.
    2)Отсутствия полной русской локализации это вообще табу, я не хочу сидеть чё то там переводить, а хочу наслаждаться игрой.
    3)Высокая цена в районе 3к за такое качество продукта.
  17. saintluk2
    May 19, 2022
    0
    They charged full price for an early beta release. I play only single player campaign.
  18. Mighty_Prophet
    Jun 5, 2022
    0
    Text within UI does not show, "fix" posted through google search does not work. Game has been out for almost 4 months and still no patch / fix. This makes the game not playable. Took time to make a Metacritic account just to write this and warn people.
  19. xXAlikoXx
    Jul 2, 2022
    0
    Hocam bu oyun baya baya erken erişim oyunu ve oyun bozuk arkadaşlar optimizasyon ve bug sorunu var gidip bu buglu oyuna 600₺ vermek akıllıca bir iş değil.

    in summary: High price, very poor optimisation, early access looking against this I don't recommend it
  20. eiithne
    Jun 12, 2022
    0
    Such a bad game, disappointed. Expected more after WH2 which was a great game
  21. Gorerotted_
    Jul 14, 2022
    1
    Very unfriendly consumer wise business practice. The game is just dlc-expansion marketed as full price game.The day one DLC ofcourse is here and who knows how many more will come... Decent game killed by greed and they wonder why the player count is lower than the older games... People arent stupid and wont pay again for the same thing over and over again.. Greed, Greed never changes!
  22. Gover
    Aug 5, 2022
    4
    I wasn't the biggest fan of Warhammer 2, not because it was bad, but because I wasn't that interested in that category of game. Nonetheless, it was extremely well-made and made me appreciate that genre of game. This however, did not. The storyline is boring, the fact that you don't have to be the best kingdom to conquer and win, you just have to be the first to get 4 stones is beyondI wasn't the biggest fan of Warhammer 2, not because it was bad, but because I wasn't that interested in that category of game. Nonetheless, it was extremely well-made and made me appreciate that genre of game. This however, did not. The storyline is boring, the fact that you don't have to be the best kingdom to conquer and win, you just have to be the first to get 4 stones is beyond boring. It also takes forever to load anything in multiplayer, not sure if that's the same in singleplayer. Definitely not worth the price, just give Warhammer 2.… Expand
  23. Hasselbones
    Sep 7, 2022
    0
    Bought this game at launch and it was a buggy mess. Came back months later for IE, can't even start a new campaign without it crashing. I own the first two, they had their issues but were at least playable. This is a mess. I know there is a good game in there somewhere.
  24. wf1675_
    Dec 29, 2022
    0
    a verry overpriced expansion to Warhammer 2 packed to the brim w dlc and half baked units + buggy release
  25. Max552
    Dec 31, 2022
    0
    Can't say I was a fan. Played and found it too easy and quite boring. I really don't see the fuss about these games.
  26. Refueling
    Feb 17, 2023
    0
    The worst game of the series! I bought it for a lot of money, for the sake of a complete lack of optimization??? for the sake of paid content in A SINGLE ALREADY PURCHASED GAME? to play for the right hero - I STILL HAVE to buy 1 part???)) BURN IN HELL)
  27. TennoAndros
    Feb 23, 2023
    0
    Shame on you to deliver this game this last game that we loved so much in this state and worse than the previous. Feels like ok it's the last one people bought it or will let's finish this and move on...
  28. Arkess
    Aug 17, 2023
    3
    Awful experience compared to TTW2. After more than year it feels like a beta or the Early Access. The game developers are definitely not the same who designed the brilliant tomb kings and vampire coast. While playing the same faction in TWW3, you can get more broken mechanics and much more boring gameplay as it was.
  29. Sushpanzer
    Apr 18, 2023
    0
    I would like to put aside political issues, which in principle should not exist in the gaming industry, so I will speak dryly and to the point. When any software developer, before selling a product, declares any product features and receives money for this product upon sale, he undertakes to provide the promised functionality. When the functionality is declared, the product is released,I would like to put aside political issues, which in principle should not exist in the gaming industry, so I will speak dryly and to the point. When any software developer, before selling a product, declares any product features and receives money for this product upon sale, he undertakes to provide the promised functionality. When the functionality is declared, the product is released, sold, but stops working after the sale - this is a scam. This is theft. The game was announced support for the Russian language. People bought this product on pre-orders. After 2 years, the Russian language is cut out of the game. This is theft. This is rudeness.

    Do not preorder from these companies. They will steal your money and wipe their feet on you. They are thieves.    … Expand
  30. ttrueno
    Jun 16, 2023
    0
    I just bought it to play with Vampire Counts, and was just after buying it that I realize that you only can play with that faction if you own WH1 and WH2 with all their DLC, what a way to scam their costumers
  31. Deatheagle
    Jul 18, 2023
    4
    The Game offers epic battles with many races and a beautiful lore. I love how the Studio is trying to make the best out of this Game and continues to listen to the Community. As a Slaaneshi Player i am very pleased with Most of the Units. As a Suggestion it would be very nice if you could buff Chosen of Slaanesh because they feel very weak and disapointing. I know you are doing ur bestThe Game offers epic battles with many races and a beautiful lore. I love how the Studio is trying to make the best out of this Game and continues to listen to the Community. As a Slaaneshi Player i am very pleased with Most of the Units. As a Suggestion it would be very nice if you could buff Chosen of Slaanesh because they feel very weak and disapointing. I know you are doing ur best guys keep on the good work!… Expand
  32. Keelanv10
    Aug 17, 2023
    0
    The bugs in this game are atrocious, the dlc pricing is exploitative, the the developers hate their customers. Take it from someone with hundreds of hours of playtime in the previous games, don’t give this greedy leech of a company any of your hard earned dollars
  33. khern
    Mar 3, 2022
    5
    At launch, this title has some serious issues with replayability, bugs, performance and is not deserving of the launch price. Its more in line with how paradox launch their games, just a shell of a game they will flesh out later in dlc sized chunks for a tidy sum.

    What a shame.
  34. UOuSyron
    Feb 23, 2022
    0
    Complete ripoff, this is just a shoddy DLC at full price, and it's not even a good DLC. New daemon armies are cool. Maps suck. Sieges suck worse than before. No graphical improvement. No ability to play factions from previous games as they did in 2. Performance issues are as bad as ever. Campaign sucks much worse than Mortal Empires.

    Do not buy this for any reason, it's just flatly bad. **** CA.
  35. Art_919
    Mar 12, 2022
    4
    A decent game under the massive flaws and bugs it has brought along. Battles feel bland without the dreaded Blood DLC and the factions seem a lot more sparse on release than Total War: Warhammer 2's. Many many users reporting game breaking crashes and bugs, with myself reporting awful optimisation.

    The game will be great, once the lacklustre campaign is replaced by Immortal Empires and    A decent game under the massive flaws and bugs it has brought along. Battles feel bland without the dreaded Blood DLC and the factions seem a lot more sparse on release than Total War: Warhammer 2's. Many many users reporting game breaking crashes and bugs, with myself reporting awful optimisation.

    The game will be great, once the lacklustre campaign is replaced by Immortal Empires and the initial bugs quashed. Wait on this one.    … Expand
  36. Zeldarin
    Mar 7, 2022
    1
    This game is not justified if you are a casual fan. Why would anyone want to play sieges 100%.What happened to land battles? As a campaign main CA really left us in the dirt. The Ai was bad in TWW1, TWW2, but its even worse in TWW3.
    If you are a tabletop player you probably think its the greatest thing since sliced bread. But I am not a tabletop player. This game was made for multiplayer    This game is not justified if you are a casual fan. Why would anyone want to play sieges 100%.What happened to land battles? As a campaign main CA really left us in the dirt. The Ai was bad in TWW1, TWW2, but its even worse in TWW3.
    If you are a tabletop player you probably think its the greatest thing since sliced bread. But I am not a tabletop player. This game was made for multiplayer only it seems.    … Expand
  37. welshie123
    Mar 16, 2022
    0
    couldn't even end the game, clicked on the exit button nothing happened, perfect summary of the game as a whole
  38. ViniPuh
    Apr 6, 2023
    1
    They stopped supporting the Russian language. Harassment of Russian-speaking players.
  39. Telaelle
    Feb 19, 2022
    0
    As for now the game is totally unplayable.. TW 1 and 2 was working fine on high quality but this one is having around 20 fps on medium and even this amount is not stable.. Until game is fixed I am not able to recommend it to anyone..
  40. SquiZERGgou
    Feb 23, 2022
    0
    Worst base campaign to date, cant stomach finishing it once as it is right now and since its the only way to play it atm I cant recommend the game.

    They started mass deleting all negative post about the game on their forum and giving warning for them as of this morning. Way to lose long time customers that would have bought every DLC if treated right.
  41. Kakaloto
    Mar 14, 2022
    2
    The Realms of Chaos campaign is tedious and unrewarding. The plot is very low-effort and uncompelling and its mechanics just aren't fun.

    The unit pathing has been re-worked and is more awful, yet more integral than ever. If one member of a unit gets caught on something/someone the rest of the unit can't advance or take orders and continually goes back for the lost unit. I was stoked    The Realms of Chaos campaign is tedious and unrewarding. The plot is very low-effort and uncompelling and its mechanics just aren't fun.

    The unit pathing has been re-worked and is more awful, yet more integral than ever. If one member of a unit gets caught on something/someone the rest of the unit can't advance or take orders and continually goes back for the lost unit.

    I was stoked when I found out that multiplayer can have up to 8 people and the turns are simultaneous, but every multiplayer game I've played has inevitably crashed right after large battles. Now add the fact that the RoC campaign is generally not very fun and contains a lot of unrewarding busywork and even the 8-player multi-campaign isn't that appealing.

    Sieges are now worse than ever. All they had to do was add Three Kingdoms style sieges, instead WH3 has an RTS tower defence game on top of labyrinthian settlement maps- did I mention that the pathing is now horrible? Yeah, the end result of the changes to WH sieges is that now they take longer, are more tedious and more clumpy. You're expected to keep an eye on resources that you (as the defender) generate and also building towers and barricades *in real time,* which apparently only takes about 60 seconds per construction. Where are we getting these resources from? We're *under siege*. Why wait until the enemy is attacking to put up your defenses? Everything about it makes it the least TW thing Ca has ever done, more micromanagement with significantly less immersion. It's a shameful display.

    There's plenty of improvements, too: Quality of life stuff like being able to save hero builds, use quickdeal diplomacy and set a budget for your towns to automanage themselves. (Although the RoC campaign has so many BS hoops to jump through my budget has generally been strained in every game, so haven't had a chance to use this budget feature.) Also just the factions themselves; lots of cool models, aesthetics, voice acting, all good stuff. It's just completely outweighed by all the bad stuff.

    Been playing TW for 20 years and this is the first one to bore me out of playing it within the first couple days. Also it's filled to the brim with bugs. And Immortal Empires will likely be fun, even though it's been a month and that's still not out yet. Just been a few patches that fixed stuff and tweaked/balanced *nothing.*

    TLDR: Bad campaign, bad sieges and bad story. Cool content though?    … Expand
  42. rinshun
    Mar 8, 2022
    0
    They put Denuvo into this game, that's the first sin.

    The game doesn't really bring anything new to the previous games. Some free mods for them can do the same job.

    Price too high. This is NOT a new game. It's just the same Warhammer Total War, with a little bit extra stuff. Should be priced accorndingly.
  43. Cdertyhn
    Mar 21, 2022
    0
    Know how MMORPGs start out with a clean setting, but then they sell more and more flashy sh!t until it all becomes meaningless? Things quickly become over saturated when every new item has to outshine it’s predecessor. The new human Factions feel like that. Just an over saturation of gimmicks both in the form of way to magical units and excessive special abilities on the campaign map. TheKnow how MMORPGs start out with a clean setting, but then they sell more and more flashy sh!t until it all becomes meaningless? Things quickly become over saturated when every new item has to outshine it’s predecessor. The new human Factions feel like that. Just an over saturation of gimmicks both in the form of way to magical units and excessive special abilities on the campaign map. The same is true for Chaos, but there it does actually work.
    The siege battles are bad as well, but hopefully someone will mod it once they get mod support to work.    … Expand
  44. chrissyboi85
    Mar 5, 2022
    0
    This game is doesn't deserve a 10 rating. Don't pay attention to all these perfect scores they are fake reviews bought and sold for marketing. CA dropped the ball on this one.
  45. crawne
    Mar 6, 2022
    0
    How can you mess up the final game in the trilogy this bad? Should have been a home-run.
  46. MasculineTaru
    Mar 6, 2022
    0
    Took alot of good things from #1 & 2 and ruined them. This includes UI, Campaign, Unit Balance, ETC.

    End game rift campaign is buggy, glitchy and poorly implemented. I have been unable to finish any campaigns due to that "feature" alone.

    It isnt fun and it isnt funny what they did to a polished WH II
  47. LordOfWrath
    Mar 11, 2022
    0
    Cant recommend this game in its current state. As content creators have openly expressed there are lots of bugs, unresponsive units, bad ai, and overall just not a good start out of the gate for this latest entry. Please wait to purchase later when other modes or fixes become available.
  48. drogarito
    Mar 21, 2022
    0
    Unplayable campaign due to the rifts. Atrocious siege "rework" made this game feel as if I am playing tower defense game in vein of Orcs Must Die. First they said that deployables will only be part of final battles, and then they implemented it in sieges as well. And these in-battle deployables are the worst thing you can have in a Total War game. And what's even worse is that everyUnplayable campaign due to the rifts. Atrocious siege "rework" made this game feel as if I am playing tower defense game in vein of Orcs Must Die. First they said that deployables will only be part of final battles, and then they implemented it in sieges as well. And these in-battle deployables are the worst thing you can have in a Total War game. And what's even worse is that every faction has the same 4 deployables (that should be removed from the game if you ask me). Multiplayer is also unplayable, and the new ranked "domination" mode is terrible. I really enjoyed standard frontal battles, but now I cannot even play them. And besides that, multiplayer battles are full of lag. And one month after, and you still don't have CHAT in a game that has 8-players multiplayer campaign nor in battle, post-battle, chat rooms. Not to mention COPY-PASTE units for Chaos factions. Rating: GIVE ME A BREAK! -1000/10… Expand
  49. william1134
    Feb 23, 2022
    0
    I have not been enjoying this game at all and have stopped playing for now. (until mod support comes)

    I really hate the campaign, you can't expand and I just find myself fighting minor settlement battles, which are horrible. I just want to fight in a field as per normal, not split my forces up and fight for little resource points or whatever. Its difficult to manage and not fun with it    I have not been enjoying this game at all and have stopped playing for now. (until mod support comes)

    I really hate the campaign, you can't expand and I just find myself fighting minor settlement battles, which are horrible. I just want to fight in a field as per normal, not split my forces up and fight for little resource points or whatever. Its difficult to manage and not fun with it just becoming a blob fest most of the time.

    The graphics are terrible, at a distance, which is where i spend most of my time, units either disappear or becomes smudges.

    Back to warhammer 2 for me.    … Expand
  50. Xswertgb
    Feb 28, 2022
    0
    Soo, they have an engine / control scheme that really doesn’t do well with siege battles and decide to rework their game to make siege battles the most common battles?
    It’s really finicky to position units near unpassable terrain, so giving orders to units inside those natural corridors that dominate our new battlefields usually takes two to three tries. And without split screen support    Soo, they have an engine / control scheme that really doesn’t do well with siege battles and decide to rework their game to make siege battles the most common battles?
    It’s really finicky to position units near unpassable terrain, so giving orders to units inside those natural corridors that dominate our new battlefields usually takes two to three tries. And without split screen support assaulting more than one entry point can be dangerous since those melee heroes need constant babysitting or they might suicide rush.    … Expand
  51. Essenus
    Feb 23, 2022
    4
    У игры есть потенциал, но этот потенциал просто загублен на корню в данный момент(6 дней после релиза)отвратной оптимизацией, кучей багов, недоделок типа выхода подкреплений врага прямо в городе со стенами во время осады, убитой в ноль экономикой, балансом, аморфным ИИ особенно за фракции порядка.
    Пока хотя бы часть этого не будет исправлено выше 4 баллов она увы не заслуживает
    Тем более    У игры есть потенциал, но этот потенциал просто загублен на корню в данный момент(6 дней после релиза)отвратной оптимизацией, кучей багов, недоделок типа выхода подкреплений врага прямо в городе со стенами во время осады, убитой в ноль экономикой, балансом, аморфным ИИ особенно за фракции порядка.
    Пока хотя бы часть этого не будет исправлено выше 4 баллов она увы не заслуживает
    Тем более за такой довольно конский ценник в 3 с половиной штуки деревянных.    … Expand
  52. rookie009
    Mar 12, 2022
    0
    Refunded it. I'm done playing games which should count as "beta". Grafics should be whoaaa because it has at least 120 gb but it looks as WH2 looked. Performance? Bad, even with a very good pc. Skilltrees, yeah I think they were a copy paste "masterpiece". Please help every gamer by not buying These beta state games. On top this is a Starship Troopers game. It must be with this many bugs in it...
  53. MisterMartins
    Mar 7, 2022
    3
    The game is not enjoyable and CA should me ashamed of releasing a game on this stage. Wasn't Rome 2 enough ? Stop messing around and do Medieval 3 , that's what we want ! But do it properly.
  54. HonestTWfan
    Mar 13, 2022
    0
    CA has really devolved into a borderline scammer company over the years. It really shows with this release.
  55. SoloSD
    May 9, 2022
    0
    Не могу купить из-за глупой политики издателя. Игры вне политики!
  56. brindle88
    Feb 19, 2022
    4
    You have had 6 years to make the third game better then the second game. It isnt. All demon factions arent fleshed out enough and cathay and kislev are woke disney garbage. Total Woke Hammer should be the name of this game.
  57. Jakesteel1
    Feb 18, 2022
    4
    The campaign is easily the worst out of the 3 in the series. CA seems too arrogant when it comes to listening to the community. Most of the problems in the first 2 games are still present and even made worse (gates, vassals, cowardly campaign map ai etc.)
  58. tornanx
    Feb 19, 2022
    0
    Too much wasted potential. CA tried to solve every major problem with laziest solution like things. There are self erecting towers that are being built in real time (30 seconds). They have teleporting armies in multiplayer. Game is buggy and not optimized I have stuttering even with a RTX 3090. There are constant glitches. AI can't defend their cities and siege needs a rerework. Only pointToo much wasted potential. CA tried to solve every major problem with laziest solution like things. There are self erecting towers that are being built in real time (30 seconds). They have teleporting armies in multiplayer. Game is buggy and not optimized I have stuttering even with a RTX 3090. There are constant glitches. AI can't defend their cities and siege needs a rerework. Only point I give is because I love nurglings.… Expand
  59. Mad_Hermit
    Feb 20, 2022
    0
    This game is a big disappointment. CA has moved the release date last year to polish the game and this is the result? They could have taken already working WH2 build and modify it for new scenario, instead they threw everything away in terms of balance and decided to just go ahead with this. Economy is not adequate to sustain armies for Total WAR. Literally every money producing buildingThis game is a big disappointment. CA has moved the release date last year to polish the game and this is the result? They could have taken already working WH2 build and modify it for new scenario, instead they threw everything away in terms of balance and decided to just go ahead with this. Economy is not adequate to sustain armies for Total WAR. Literally every money producing building gives you little. Your capitals of province used to be level 5 with 8 slots, now they all are like small settlements level 3 with 4 slots. Main campaign is impossible to move further because you can't make solid base to support both soul race and empire protection. Auto resolve is not working ATM hence need to manually play every single battle, which tires you so much. Siege rework might be a good way forward if only this would work prior the battle start. At the moment AI continues building towers and barricades in the process of battle. You order attack on an enemy unit then AI builds barricade and your unit changes route making big round to reach the enemy, while taking fire from towers.… Expand
  60. MrsMcgillicuddy
    Feb 22, 2022
    1
    Soulless cash grab peddling the Warhammer name while still offering minimal features, truckloads of bugs, predatory cut content for DLCs/Preorder "bonuses" and a straight up abusive dose of Denuvo copy protection to boot.

    Ignore the usual gaming media shills and poorly disguised review bots. Never settle for such mediocre offerings and anti-consumer practices.
  61. C2487233
    Feb 19, 2022
    0
    Denuvo ruins the game. DO NOT PURCHASE UNLESS YOU HAVE A HIGH END PC.

    ironically, a pirated version will run smoother. I played full price for the game and will be looking for a cracked version anyways.
  62. doktorszalony
    Feb 24, 2022
    0
    This game is rubbish. Optimization doesn't exist. Constant crashes and low FPS. I have a top PC with RTX and can't even do 10 turns without crash. A great game that cannot be played. F**k you Denuvo. The saves don't work after each crash. So I have to go back 2-3 turns. Not worth my time and money
  63. PoppyTales
    Mar 28, 2022
    2
    Looks great, sounds good, but is still boring and broken. The way the CA treats their fan base and promoters is absolutely wrong and **** I feel bad for all the hard on fan boys sucking their lies out of their **** and still not getting a good game.
  64. tobiwan12345
    Feb 22, 2022
    1
    Unbalanced and buggy. The economy is not existing. You can barely keep one full army unless you are the Scrooge McDuck imperium with caravan that gives you so much money that you can build 2 money storage. The Auto Resolve for fights prefer the human nations because they have more range units as Demons. This means you must play all fights yourself as a Demon Nation. In a Multiplayer lobbyUnbalanced and buggy. The economy is not existing. You can barely keep one full army unless you are the Scrooge McDuck imperium with caravan that gives you so much money that you can build 2 money storage. The Auto Resolve for fights prefer the human nations because they have more range units as Demons. This means you must play all fights yourself as a Demon Nation. In a Multiplayer lobby with more than 4 player its unplayable unless you like to wait. Because of the bad economy the demons never reaches endgame units and because you only have one full army you must decide to enter a portal or defend your citys. I hope the immortal empire campaign will be better.... ah i forget you need all 3 games in order to play this campaign. Ty CA… Expand
  65. GERULAS
    Feb 19, 2022
    0
    It seems like the copies they gave content creators did NOT have Denuvo, and thus the performance issues and until CA fix the performance issues caused by Denuvo, I wouldn't recommend this game.

    TOTAL WAR: REMUVO 3
  66. luckydutch
    Feb 21, 2022
    5
    Can't recommend this game or rate it higher than a 5 because I have had major technical problems with it that I've been unable to solve and so had to do a refund.

    My PC is above the recommended specs for the game yet the graphics are truly appalling. Specifically, units. There must be an issue with their anti-aliasing because units look incredibly pixlated. So much so that as you    Can't recommend this game or rate it higher than a 5 because I have had major technical problems with it that I've been unable to solve and so had to do a refund.

    My PC is above the recommended specs for the game yet the graphics are truly appalling. Specifically, units. There must be an issue with their anti-aliasing because units look incredibly pixlated. So much so that as you line-up in battle, your army will just be a shimmering block of visible pixels and sharp edges. When you zoom right in on a unit and wait for a second, the detail suddenly pops in and it looks OK but this is only OK for screenshots. The battles are unplayable.

    Besides that, the campaign has a lot of bugs. Factions have major balancing issues. Vassals are completely broken and that's a primary mechanic for one faction.

    This game needed a few more months in the oven...    … Expand
  67. 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, 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.)
  68. BilbitleHobo
    Feb 24, 2022
    0
    That game has been delayed to be polished.
    So now they released a polished turd !
    Well done CA
  69. Quell34
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    Warhammer 3 is more of the same game as the others. Only worse.

    It's a very pretty game (well, except for any units when you zoom out), but there is absolutely nothing of substance under the surface. Somehow, CA manage to make the AI worse with every iteration. The only way they can add any level of difficulty is by making the AI cheat and break the mechanics of the game. The    Warhammer 3 is more of the same game as the others. Only worse.

    It's a very pretty game (well, except for any units when you zoom out), but there is absolutely nothing of substance under the surface.

    Somehow, CA manage to make the AI worse with every iteration. The only way they can add any level of difficulty is by making the AI cheat and break the mechanics of the game.

    The economy in this game is broken with very little income generators unless you play the trade caravan faction (which is bonkers money). The only viable expansion strategy is to beeline for the nearest income settlements (usually gold resource etc) and these still don't give as much income as previous warhammer games.

    Because of the economy and being punished for having multiple armies, you will struggle to build more than 1 army in the early to mid game. The limited army count and being tied to a commander is bothersome when your 1 army will be playing whack-a-mole trying to deal with randomly spawning armies and chasing (but failing to ever catch) AI armies running around the map on forced march. It's particularly galling when forced marched armies just run right past your army into your territory to sack towns, and your army still cant catch them!

    Playing as Kislev, with a selection of hybrid ranged units, the AI defending a town will normally let you expand all your ammunition to butter them up, while they run around in circles and take the beating.

    Most of the battles will be as easy as this until CA give you a quest battle which is an ambush mission, so the enemy completely surrounds you and the fighting starts instantly. You don't even have time to figure out what is going on this case, and your army will be dead in 1 minute.

    Units in battles are strangely unresponsive in oombat. Often they seem to forget what they are doing in a fight or not react to getting attacked on one side... and just sit there doing nothing. I thought it was guard mode at first but I confirmed this was turned off.

    Every 'unique' mechanic is just a different name for battle generated points which are used to get more stats. The whole game is spreadsheeting with few tactics or actual mechanics. All 'gameplay additions' are usually just another tracker page for you to monitor as the game progresses and 'interact with' to get more stats.

    Missile units overlapping apparently block eachother from firing, despite there not actually being any true missiles in the game.

    Magic is the same system of you just spam spells repeatedly for very little real effect, besides a few select spells.

    Battles aren't fun. There is no challenge beside when the AI cheats and breaks the game. Campaign map is more irritating than anything else.

    The creators of this game don't even play the game, that should tell you everything you need to know right there.    … Expand
  70. jzalexander
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    I wanted to play Total War Wahammer in the fantasy setting, this is just AOS dressed in the burial clothes of fantasy. You let GW ruin your series by pushing their awful new designs into your game didn't you? Not impressed. Awful game, Awful Campaign Awful factions. Just Sad. Buy Total War Warhammer 2.
  71. richardkenny
    Feb 20, 2022
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What a huge letdown, I waited four years for this game and it's the worst one in the series. The units are good but the campaign sucks. Which is the only game mode I play. You can't play any of the armies from the previous games. The campaigns themselves are boring its hard to get more than a couple armies going, the whole time your playing chaos whack a moll. Chaos just spawns over and over in the same spots. Who thought this would be fun it's just really annoying and makes every playthrough feel the same.each chaos faction has very few units.this game kinda sucks… Expand
  72. Seraphiel
    Feb 18, 2022
    3
    I have been a fan of Total War games since Shogun 1 and have particularly enjoyed Total Warhammer 1 & 2. Unfortunately, this is just really, really disappointing.

    I'm not quite sure what they were thinking with the changes they made because almost all the changes are for the worse compared to WH2. The new settlement towers and barricades? Pure cancer. The towers in particular are    I have been a fan of Total War games since Shogun 1 and have particularly enjoyed Total Warhammer 1 & 2. Unfortunately, this is just really, really disappointing.

    I'm not quite sure what they were thinking with the changes they made because almost all the changes are for the worse compared to WH2.

    The new settlement towers and barricades? Pure cancer. The towers in particular are utterly unbalanced and make every battle a slog. I say every battle rather than just "siege battles" because the AI absolutely refuse to fight you on the open field unless they outnumber you hugely. I've had three open field battles in 6 hours of play. Big, fun set-piece battles are meant to be the centrepiece of this game and this one fails at it's most fundamental level.

    The new mechanic where rifts into chaos randomly appear in your territories every turn? One of the most annoying mechanics they could have devised. Not only is there no way to prevent this but they take your provinces from 0 to 100 corruption in three turns, discourge enemy agents into your lands and often enemy armies. This means that the only viable tactic is to turtle and spam end turn since, if you expand, you cannot protect your provinces properly.

    The game economy is broken. This makes having more than one army nearly impossible (especially due to the necessary turtling) and good luck saving enough money to get decent settlements unless you farm Slaanesh's rewards.

    Does it have good AI? LOLNO, all AI factions at war will make a beeline for the player no matter how stupid it is to do so. This has always been an issue but it's so much worse in WH3. The AI also outright and blatantly cheats in respect of the main quest (you can watch it do so in front of your eyes) but, even worse, if they collect all the souls before you that is an instant game over and there is no option to buy more time by defeating them in battle.

    The UI? Far inferior to the WH2 one.

    Optimisation? It runs like a legless paraplegic on a floor made of needles. Look forward to constant graphical glitches and stuttering.

    Bugs? Quite a few game breaking ones but you'll only find out after having wasted several hours on a campaign.

    I am going to have to ditch the game until the big combined map comes out or until there is mod support to get rid of the many, many issues because the gameplay is actively anti-fun at present and that is coming from someone who actually quite liked the Vortex campaign in WH2 (which a lot of people complained about).

    Very sadly, this is the first TW game that I simply cannot recommend. Hopefully they'll fix some of this in patches but I suspect that much of it is unfixable because it represents inexplicable design decisions which would need to be redesigned from the ground up. Regardless, I'll keep an open mind and I hope that I can change this review to a positive at a later date.    … Expand
  73. Quatra
    Feb 18, 2022
    5
    7 years making the same game and they decide to RUIN the things that worked. Optimization Awful. Bugs - aplenty - Two hard stopped campaigns due to bugs. The UI! The UI is the most awful bland red color and hard to read. Gone are beautiful graphics and beautiful art - all replaced by bland red symbols and generic colors.
    Being forced to go through chaos portals and a lame end game race    7 years making the same game and they decide to RUIN the things that worked. Optimization Awful. Bugs - aplenty - Two hard stopped campaigns due to bugs. The UI! The UI is the most awful bland red color and hard to read. Gone are beautiful graphics and beautiful art - all replaced by bland red symbols and generic colors.
    Being forced to go through chaos portals and a lame end game race means this mode will never be played after mortal empires comes out. Map is now cluttered with debris and less crisp. Overall Dissappointed. A 5/10    … Expand
  74. BergN7
    Feb 19, 2022
    0
    Bad prologue, bad campaign, a lot of bugs. Bad performance, Denuvo make it only worse.Painful gameplay experience...
  75. Boris-Barbaris
    Feb 21, 2022
    5
    Ужасная оптимизация, куча багов и мыльная картинка. Некоторые защищают игру, говоря, что Тотал вары всегда выходили сырые на релизе - и я скажу наверно страшную вещь, но это НЕ НОРМА. Учитывая, что каждая игра становится дороже предыдущей, а кучу длц в будущем никто не отменяет.Ужасная оптимизация, куча багов и мыльная картинка. Некоторые защищают игру, говоря, что Тотал вары всегда выходили сырые на релизе - и я скажу наверно страшную вещь, но это НЕ НОРМА. Учитывая, что каждая игра становится дороже предыдущей, а кучу длц в будущем никто не отменяет.
  76. ber_aleks
    Apr 8, 2023
    1
    No politics in games! Stop denigrating the Russian people and their language!
  77. redsuns
    Aug 19, 2023
    0
    many bugs ignored and left unfix for months. Overpriced dlcs that can buy a full game. Wind has changed for CA. Spend your time and money elsewhere.
  78. Grandhatred
    Mar 9, 2022
    0
    fuk who ever make this game jesus you only had one platform to work with why the **** it feel like i am playing **** console port.
  79. Tigloco9
    Sep 7, 2022
    7
    Just like Warhammer II, it's incredibly barren and unoptimized on launch. The rift mechanic, just like the vortex race, is obnoxious and really sucks out the fun of expanding your empire. But at the end of the day, we all know that Warhammer III is just a stepping stone to Immortal Empires. The actual main game. When that's released and a couple of months pass to fix the undoubtedly brokenJust like Warhammer II, it's incredibly barren and unoptimized on launch. The rift mechanic, just like the vortex race, is obnoxious and really sucks out the fun of expanding your empire. But at the end of the day, we all know that Warhammer III is just a stepping stone to Immortal Empires. The actual main game. When that's released and a couple of months pass to fix the undoubtedly broken state of it, then it will become the game for the ages. … Expand
  80. OliveriaJon
    Apr 18, 2022
    7
    I love this series. The campaign is fun, new, and clever. I like really cant wait for the game to merge the maps from Total War: Warhammer 1 & 2. That will be even more fun to explore that will no doubt give me years of fun just like the previous two installments.
  81. 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
  82. AndersTak
    Feb 22, 2022
    2
    5700xt + 2k+ middle preset=5-30fps. Game doesn't look better than TWW2-even worse. Without TAA and ssao game looks awful. 2022 and still no fsr or dlss.
    The UI is the most awful bland red color and hard to read.
    Overall TWW2 is the better and richer game. Too much wasted potential. Doesn't worth money now-wait for sale.
  83. Sedmoi
    Feb 21, 2022
    0
    2070 super = 5-30 fps.
    Пиздец. Это ужасно оптимизированный продукт. За такое надо увольнять всех причастных к принятию решения выпускать такое на рынок.
  84. MONSTERDOTO
    Feb 23, 2022
    0
    Лагающее дерьмо, которое вылетает в первой миссии и выдет 70фпс на 3080ти. Бракоделы
  85. 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 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    Start 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
  86. Guillimann
    Nov 25, 2022
    7
    Has the potential to be great, but is too flawed in it's execution. The launch was unforgivable, missed the chance to make this one of the best strategy games ever made and turned into just another good strategy game
  87. Fanchbretagne
    Feb 19, 2022
    10
    A real pleasure to play this Warhammer. There are epic battles. The storyline between the factions are very good. We have a very well done graphical upgrade with a design that sets the mood well. We have everything that makes the charm of Warhammer with its tactics, its fights and its management. Very good return of Warhammer with this episode.
  88. Leonardoamarelo
    Feb 19, 2022
    10
    Ótimo jogo. Recomendo para todos que curtem um jogo de estratégia. Vale a pena.
  89. Marchisio
    Feb 18, 2022
    10
    Total War Warhammer III'ü almak için hala kararsız olan vatandaş, evet sana sesleniyorum. Oyunda geçirdiğim bu kısa sürenin ardından gönül rahatlığıyla söyleyebilirim ki gözünü kapat, cüzdanı masaya vur ve devam et. Sefer haritasından tut, diplomasiye kattığı yenilikler, seslendirmeler, sinematik anlatımlar, görsel kalite, yapay zeka ve daha sayamadığım bir sürü yenilik tek kelime ileTotal War Warhammer III'ü almak için hala kararsız olan vatandaş, evet sana sesleniyorum. Oyunda geçirdiğim bu kısa sürenin ardından gönül rahatlığıyla söyleyebilirim ki gözünü kapat, cüzdanı masaya vur ve devam et. Sefer haritasından tut, diplomasiye kattığı yenilikler, seslendirmeler, sinematik anlatımlar, görsel kalite, yapay zeka ve daha sayamadığım bir sürü yenilik tek kelime ile muazzam! Şuanda bu cümleleri bu oyunun bana yaşattığı titretme duygusu ile yazıyorum. Hak ettiğimiz gibi olan ve bizi yıllarca bağımlısı yapacak serinin son oyunu sonunda beklediğim gibi çıktı! Üzülmen gereken tek şey DLC'ler cüzdanımızı fena yakacak. Şimdiden gözümle ileriye bakınca binlerce saat oyun süresi görüyorum! Fiyatı 345TL, cüzdanı vurup alamıyorum diyebilirsin Türk genci fakat unutma bugün almadığın her oyun sana fiyatı daha pahalı bir şekilde zam olarak geri dönecektir! Binlerce saat oyun süresi vaat eden, Türkçe dil desteği olan bir oyun için kesinlikle dibine kadar bu fiyatı hak ediyor ve bölgesel fiyat olarak en ucuza Türkiye'de satıyorlar! Burger King'de BIG KING XXL menü 56TL olmuş Türk genci, bu sana 1000 saat vaat ediyor, kendine gel!

    Son olarak söylemek istediğim bir şey var;
    Ben Nan-Gau'nun Yüce Maderşahıyım,
    Fırtına Rüzgarlarının Efendisiyim,
    Ejderha İmparatorunun Kızıyım!!!    … Expand
  90. Zortik
    Feb 19, 2022
    10
    Warhammer 3 is an excellent game where we find all the spirit of the series. The atmosphere is excellent with gameplay that is still as pleasant and fun.
  91. Noir9090
    Feb 28, 2022
    6
    I'm sorry to say this game desperately needed another 6-12 months of work before publishing. It has some nice little positive changes so it's not all bad so let's start with those.

    Exp gained on lords is is actually based on the enemies so you are no longer encouraged to battle each army twice. Even low end items are still somewhat relevant late game since you can fuse with other items    I'm sorry to say this game desperately needed another 6-12 months of work before publishing. It has some nice little positive changes so it's not all bad so let's start with those.

    Exp gained on lords is is actually based on the enemies so you are no longer encouraged to battle each army twice. Even low end items are still somewhat relevant late game since you can fuse with other items to make them higher tier ones(lots of useless and worse items available in higher tiers tho that needs balancing).
    Diplomacy has nifty quick deal feature to allow player much faster gauge on what kind of deals they can do and you can now technically trade settlements with AI.
    In battles AI now feels more human(both good and bad at same time but we'll get to this later) and it tries to dodge spells. And well, that's all she wrote. Really, those were the only positives I could find so let's move to the dark side.

    On the negative side sadly this game shines like a beacon in the dark. The game pace is atrociously slow compared to WH2. Even minor settlements have sieges now. These sieges are extremely dumbed down so that you can never lose them, but you will take huge losses over nothing if you don't do them manually. This means you will take tons of extra time either manually playing those or you Auto-Resolve them and take time healing/building up again while enemy bolsters their troops making those battles take again more time.
    As defender in sieges you are now allowed to build towers and barricades middle of the battle and keep rebuilding them constantly. As defender you can beat giant armies that should walk over you at ease by selecting supply point and turtle there. The AI has huge problems with pathing in sieges and tends to just let you kill them in bottle necks. Your towers will lay waste to everything(including your own army if you buy tier 4 towers). You cannot control the towers to focus fire which is yet another thing that felt like it was dumbed down. I actually liked the idea of getting freedom to build towers and barricades to siege, but it should have been left as something you do when placing your troops at start instead of mid battle. For first battle or two this felt great fun new-ish thing. Sadly after couple battles you realize this is what you are going to be facing 70-80% of your battles.
    As attacker on sieges you will realize just how awful the AI can be. You can leave single scout visible opposite side of siege and hide your army into obvious forest to abuse the crap out of the dumb AI. AI will respond as you'd expect. It will move all their troops to that scout side and waste all their points there while your army can march from behind with streets empty. Alternatively you can do it the other way around also. show your army and backdoor points with quick units. The enemy will send proportionally huge chunks of their army to deal with the scary intruders making rest easy pickings. The AI loves spending their points on worthless tier 1 junk towers btw, it just buys the cheapest crap as it has no idea how to play the sieges.
    siege maps also have ramparts locations similar to standing on old walls(except these ramparts can be walked to even by cavalry). The AI does not understand those at all. It might have their elite swords just standing there while you keep backstabbing or shooting them there like idiots. Again it's a fun idea, but terrible execution.
    Regarding sieges I truly hope when Mortal Empires comes they give us "classic" option for sieges just to bypass them or at least make it so these are thing only for major settlements with walls for example. You gotta fix pathing, AI, tower spam, turtling and make the AI understand battles it can take. You can just farm AI for free money and items when it keeps bashing their heads into a wall over and over again while you don't even need army anymore. These sieges made took away a lot of economy management and map control since you no longer need to keep armies there. Sieges also begin instant attrition which makes them even easier for you while keeps taking the fights even dumbest players will win if they turtle.

    On the world map the AI is back to the dark ages of first WH. It plays extremely passive. You are stuck hiding in ambush mode to not make it run. It's constant cat and mouse if you don't.
    You are no longer encouraged to keep expanding. Rather again turtle tactics are just as good if not better with the new campaign. It's like devs looked what was bad with Vortex campaign and decided to go deeper into it. Unlike Vortex this objective is not optional way to play. Now you can just stick to couple provinces and wait.... and wait... and wait... till game decides it's time for demon portals so you can do the objective. You can do only one portal at a time since it needs your legendary lord despite your other armies being just as strong to artificially make game longer, much longer than it should be. That's 150-200 turns of utter boredom.    … Expand
  92. 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 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 knowVisuals 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
  93. xBrock
    Feb 18, 2022
    10
    Being objective, the Best Total War created to date. Incredible amount of content, the details are excellent, the setting too. The best closure this triology could have had. Future DLC will be the best.
  94. Sweetonn
    Feb 19, 2022
    9
    Suite très bonne de cette saga mythique. J'étais un peu dubitatif avant sa sortie mais c'est un bon boulot du studio qui nous sort un bon titre. Il y a les principes classique de la saga que l'on a dans chaque épisode, des choses nouvelles qui apportent un plus dans le gameplay,
    J'en suis à plus de 30 heures de jeu et je prend toujours du plaisir. L'histoire des factions est bonne.
    Je    Suite très bonne de cette saga mythique. J'étais un peu dubitatif avant sa sortie mais c'est un bon boulot du studio qui nous sort un bon titre. Il y a les principes classique de la saga que l'on a dans chaque épisode, des choses nouvelles qui apportent un plus dans le gameplay,
    J'en suis à plus de 30 heures de jeu et je prend toujours du plaisir. L'histoire des factions est bonne.
    Je conseil cette suite qui est très bonne et ne vous fiez pas aux mauvaises notes qui sont données par des joueurs qui n'ont certainement pas touché au jeu ou qui sont juste des gens qui chipote pour rien. Ceux qui critique quand il y a du changement et qui critique quand il n'y en a pas, les gens jamais content en fait.    … Expand
  95. moisture84
    Feb 27, 2022
    10
    If optimization improves and a few good DLCs are released, this game will be remembered as one of the best PC games.
  96. maomeowmoo
    Feb 19, 2022
    10
    I have played about 10 hours with only a few issues at the start. I played for 3 or 4 hours today 0 issues. I have a 6 year old pc with a new 3070 ti and a new ssd. Everything else is 6 years old and I can run it no problem. Anyways this is mostly just here cause I hate people spamming 0s
  97. Lajouasse
    Feb 19, 2022
    9
    Excellent retour de la licence. On y retrouve de très bonne mécanique et des nouveauté qui font plaisir.
    Par contre ce n'est pas à mettre entre toute les mains parce que le jeu n'est pas facile. La campagne est très bonne est intéressante, la diplomatie est apporte une autre façon d'appréhender le jeu, les différentes factions sont toutes plus où moins intéressantes, il y a des batailles    Excellent retour de la licence. On y retrouve de très bonne mécanique et des nouveauté qui font plaisir.
    Par contre ce n'est pas à mettre entre toute les mains parce que le jeu n'est pas facile. La campagne est très bonne est intéressante, la diplomatie est apporte une autre façon d'appréhender le jeu, les différentes factions sont toutes plus où moins intéressantes, il y a des batailles de folie et énorme et j'en passe.
    Franchement un excellent Warhammer, et très content que la franchise revienne en force et qualité.    … Expand
  98. helladarionx
    Feb 20, 2022
    0
    Vou dar zero pelo preço absurdo de caro, completamente fora da capacidade do Brasileiro de comprar. somado ao motivo de nao existir nenhuma dublagem em português
  99. oczak25
    Feb 19, 2022
    10
    Amazing game, I am confident most technical issues will be resolved as we have seen with wh2.
  100. morti_cian
    Feb 24, 2022
    10
    Одна из лучших стратегий, в которую я играл. У меня имеется 300+ часов во второй части этой серии и я могу сказать, что разработчики доработали массу интерфейсных проблем прошлых частей. Баланс между фаркциями вышел неплохим, а карта кампании фантастически красивой. В первые двое суток мы в кооперативе наиграли 22 часа. Ждем новых фракций и надеемся, что оптимизацию подтянут (встречаютсяОдна из лучших стратегий, в которую я играл. У меня имеется 300+ часов во второй части этой серии и я могу сказать, что разработчики доработали массу интерфейсных проблем прошлых частей. Баланс между фаркциями вышел неплохим, а карта кампании фантастически красивой. В первые двое суток мы в кооперативе наиграли 22 часа. Ждем новых фракций и надеемся, что оптимизацию подтянут (встречаются вылеты при Alt+Tab и фризы на ходе вторичных фракций в кампании).… Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 65 Critic Reviews

Critic 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]
  2. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Oct 19, 2022
    84
    Selling Ogres as a separate Day-1 DLC is definitely an anti-consumer practice, AI would be best described as “braindead", and some mechanics only work because of duct-tape solutions like “background income”. Yet, CA has managed to capture that certain “je ne sais quoi” of Warhammer: every faction plays differently, but they all feel awesome. [Issue#259, p.42]
  3. Het Nieuwsblad
    Oct 6, 2022
    60
    If the "Total War" series had been a cow, PETA would have been at the door a long time ago. That's how milked she is. When you're not fighting, you're trying to build your empire. This part of the game combines both the best and worst of Total War: on the one hand, the factions you can play differ substantially and all offer a different experience; on the other, after a strong start, the campaign collapses like a pudding. You focus mainly on one powerful army, so the overall overview disappears somewhat from view. Too bad.
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