Total War: WARHAMMER III

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  • Publisher: Sega
  • Release Date: Feb 17, 2022
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  1. AndrewIronic
    Feb 21, 2022
    10
    Great game. A worthy end to the trilogy, looking forward to the combined campaign.
  2. DukeJon
    Feb 23, 2022
    10
    Best Total War game ever. If you like Wh1 and Wh2, you will love Wh3. You will immerse in fantastic world, well designed factions and characters, gigantic battles. I absolutely love this game and my adventure only begins.
  3. Spartan1
    Sep 16, 2022
    10
    Simply the best TTW experience when added to the previous two titles to complete the game as far as I am concerned. Immortal Empires is a massively impressive gaming experience in the Warhammer universe. Once you add in some mods from the Steam workshop, one can simply get lost in the game, especially if you have a high-end PC and Odyssey Neo monitors for an astonishingly immersive experience.
  4. saraLP
    Feb 19, 2022
    10
    Ótimo jogo. Algumas ajustes precisam ser feitos, mas o potencial com os anos de suporte é ilimitado. Vale a pena.
  5. Leonardoamarelo
    Feb 19, 2022
    10
    Ótimo jogo. Recomendo para todos que curtem um jogo de estratégia. Vale a pena.
  6. Xareo999
    Feb 20, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Son of kislev, i answer in my time of need...
    You won't believe me but Mufasa is in this game...    … Expand
  7. pavvlad
    Feb 19, 2022
    10
    great game - like total wars and thanks to sega that they start do total war in warhammer universe - its great and from chapter to chapter we have more factions and larger map - lags will be removed with patches - and soon we will play on 50-100 fps - this is rly large game
  8. 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.
  9. Cramnit
    Mar 6, 2022
    10
    Un juegazo, de principio a fin. La mejor manera de terminar la trilogia TW Warhammer, recomendado sin dudarlo.
  10. 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
  11. Hollerfish
    Mar 2, 2022
    10
    Everything is working fine. No crashes, good FPS on avg-high end machine.

    Sadly, they didn't take anything from previous TW games and improved (campaign, balancing at least). I just feel it's a long grindy boring good looking TW game.
  12. davedave1125
    Apr 11, 2022
    10
    Great game despite what some of the trolls have been saying on here. Cannot wait for the Mortal Empires 2 map!
  13. Willbro
    Feb 18, 2022
    10
    Another great total war game and a satisfying ending to the Warhammer trilogy.
  14. 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.
  15. 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
  16. Jblitz
    Mar 25, 2023
    10
    The games have been patched very well now; I love it so much. Super addictive, and there have been so many small but noteworthy additions that work.

    Like sieges now cause attrition. If a rival nation lord is parading your lands, you can threaten war if they don’t leave pronto. The new factions are great. The sieges with supplies introduced a more protected asymmetric warfare for even    The games have been patched very well now; I love it so much. Super addictive, and there have been so many small but noteworthy additions that work.

    Like sieges now cause attrition.

    If a rival nation lord is parading your lands, you can threaten war if they don’t leave pronto. The new factions are great.

    The sieges with supplies introduced a more protected asymmetric warfare for even more trickery with the defending army.    … Expand
  17. 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
  18. Afterthegame
    Feb 20, 2022
    10
    CA has listened to the community, they have improved the sieges, the multiplayer with a new domination mode just like in the campaign, and finally there is chaos!!!! we need to wait a month for immortal empires that will be crazy
  19. 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
  20. oczak25
    Feb 19, 2022
    10
    Amazing game, I am confident most technical issues will be resolved as we have seen with wh2.
  21. 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.
  22. LordBit
    Feb 20, 2022
    10
    Good prologue which is also a good tutorial, best in the series. Amazing units, factions and visuals. Do . But when combined with them the sand box will be great. Seems harder than the 1st. Good game.
  23. Sonic1305
    Feb 20, 2022
    10
    Total War: Warhammer 3 is an epic successor to the previous title, refining gameplay in many aspects like siege battles and soon to have the biggest map any total war game has ever had.

    Probably the best strategy game ever made.
  24. 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.
  25. 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
  26. Warhammer123213
    Mar 15, 2022
    10
    Rough around the edge, but got a lot of potential. I think the battle control need work, but the rest is fun and fixes are coming soon.
  27. Kdizzle88
    Mar 31, 2022
    10
    So this game in its full form with all 3 games, all DLC & factions, ME, fully patched will be a 10/10. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind about that, The release version has its faults but its still an enjoyable experience. There's no other game in this genre that comes anywhere near close to Total war - war hammer. I'm reviewing a 10 for the full package and an 8.5 for the game inSo this game in its full form with all 3 games, all DLC & factions, ME, fully patched will be a 10/10. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind about that, The release version has its faults but its still an enjoyable experience. There's no other game in this genre that comes anywhere near close to Total war - war hammer. I'm reviewing a 10 for the full package and an 8.5 for the game in its current state. Review trolls below do one.… Expand
  28. TheOldestOak
    Nov 14, 2022
    10
    Great game unfortunately being review bombed by nerds. It's a fantastic achievement, especially the Immortal Empires campaign!

    Highly recommended!
  29. ikillu2xD
    Feb 20, 2023
    10
    The Release of the Game was aweful, now its the best Warhammer strategy Game
  30. 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 Chaos Kampagne. Schon viele Stunden mit Freunden im Koop und der Alten Welt verbracht. Klare Empfehlung.
  31. SaH
    Feb 20, 2022
    9
    20.02.2022: So far... GREAT Total War and Great Warhammer... When the global map for the (IM)Mortal Empires kick in it will be Legen... wait for it...
  32. Unknighted
    Feb 22, 2022
    9
    Look if you loved TW:WH2 then you should already get this. There are, however, some issues that need to be noted. Firstly, Siege battles are better and worse in this one. Minor settlements are 1000% better and are fun to play. WALLED seige battles however are not. If you play online against another player then Walled maps might be tolerable but even still design wise they have a few flaws.Look if you loved TW:WH2 then you should already get this. There are, however, some issues that need to be noted. Firstly, Siege battles are better and worse in this one. Minor settlements are 1000% better and are fun to play. WALLED seige battles however are not. If you play online against another player then Walled maps might be tolerable but even still design wise they have a few flaws. When you add in CA's famously bad AI then you have a recipe for disaster. The AI for walled maps are hilariously bad and remind me of Rome 2. Yeah that bad. Don't get me wrong the AI seems to work everywhere else it just turns -1000 IQ for these battles. The other are bugs. Yes yes What's a Total War launch without it's share of bugs. However I believe the big onesshould be ironed out within a month. So if buggy launchs scare you away just keep your ear to the ground and buy it once it's clean. It's still playable now and I have yet to come across major game breaking bugs that other people have said existed but your milage may vary. The minor gripes are that the human/ordertide factions feel a bit undercooked mechanics wise. Kislev feels meh and Cathey is the better of the two but doesn't feel complete or unique from eachother. The "secret" unlockables of *spoiler* are a HUUUUGE let down. If you know you know.

    But everything else ****ing rocks. The Chaos factions are badass. Khorn, Nurgle, Slannesh, and he who I can't spell right all look and feel right. Nurgle mechanically wise feels the weirdest slowest but it fits him well even if it can be annoying. Khorn is straightforward but fun as hell. Slannesh is probably the most meh of the 4 but works well and is likely the faction for people who prefer the campaign map side than the actual battles. **** **** it he is the funnest and funniest with his changer of ways mechanic. The maps for campaign and battles LOOK and SOUND amazing. 11/10 for presentation easily. Battles are more fun than ever and the new units themselves for all factions look amazing. In short there are 2 or 3 minor issues that do balloon into MASSIVE problems in seige battles and bugs. But everything else **** rules. And when we get Immortal Empires map this game will be a must buy even if seige battles suck.    … Expand
  33. AcerolaOrion
    Feb 24, 2022
    9
    A huge step forward and for me the best entry in the series. Siege battles in particular are much much better this time around.

    Basically TWW2 had problems with magic since none of the other total war games have magic as a system - their usual "walled settlement" system just made it so you could use spellcasters to win the sieges by themselves after 2 or 3 catapults destroyed enemy    A huge step forward and for me the best entry in the series. Siege battles in particular are much much better this time around.

    Basically TWW2 had problems with magic since none of the other total war games have magic as a system - their usual "walled settlement" system just made it so you could use spellcasters to win the sieges by themselves after 2 or 3 catapults destroyed enemy towers.
    They made it so that the towers can be rebuilt if you take too long (which was the case for spamming spells since you had to wait for cooldowns) which fixes A LOT of exploits that were previously possible but the varied new maps offer a great variety of REAL strategical options and it plays MUCH better.

    Factions have more interesting campaign mechanics, marginally improved diplomacy and the chaos realms are all really cool tho i can see the final fight in the chaos realms get a bit annoying eventually since it takes like 30 minutes - luckily those are surprisingly easy to autoresolve if you really dont want to bother.

    Great job on all of that!

    Issues are relatively poor perfomance which was confirmed by PCInvasion to be denuvo related (since the press version ran much better and didnt have it). The snow effect in particular absolutely destroys my performance. Worse faction and unit variety compared to warhammer 2 (this will inevitably get fixed with mortal empires and DLC).

    It also might be interesting to mention that the "recommended first campaigns" are both unreasonably hard due to horrendous starter locations (especially the chaos undivided one - jesus christ - 3 20 stacks coming my way on turn 3)

    Overall a MUCH better experience than the previous TW Warhammer titles.    … Expand
  34. Ragnar1987
    Mar 10, 2022
    9
    Great game, real dope. I can't stop playing. Very interesting company with new mechanics. Great art & graphic. But optimization really sucks, I was waiting for 15 minutes before start, my friend was waiting for 30 minutes. And one more thing, if you don't now what to do get free version or pay full price for Ogre Kingdoms - don't pay! You can take free code until 24.02.2022.
  35. woodsd8634
    Feb 20, 2022
    9
    Bigger and better than WH2 on launch. Can’t wait to waste 10000 hours of my life once Immortal Empires happens.
  36. Wave0Cloud
    Feb 26, 2023
    9
    This review addresses the current state of the game, if it would have been written a year ago it would have been neutral if not negative.

    Total War Warhammer 3 manages to deliver an interesting campaign that can be enjoyed in a nice single player or a multiplayer and also features the amazing Immortal Empires (Sandbox) Campaign to all players alike. With various interesting factions which    This review addresses the current state of the game, if it would have been written a year ago it would have been neutral if not negative.

    Total War Warhammer 3 manages to deliver an interesting campaign that can be enjoyed in a nice single player or a multiplayer and also features the amazing Immortal Empires (Sandbox) Campaign to all players alike. With various interesting factions which can be played in various ways and be expanded into various directions across the gargantuan map.

    A big selling point for me personally is the big mod support which can give players an endless amount of content for both the strategic and tactical side of the game.    … Expand
  37. Turbostar
    Apr 23, 2022
    9
    After finishing 4 campaigns, i think i can say that is a very very good game. Nice graphics, nice gamplay, nice difficulties. Ai maybe can be upgraded. Playability is ver nice but the objetive is always the same. I cant understand "0 points" critics here when only 0.7% of players have finished Slaneesh campaign, for example. Not a 10 because i want inmortal empires.
  38. Hyrlos
    Feb 19, 2022
    9
    I played in multiplayer without any problem. I really love the Total War saga and Warhammer. This game finish the trilogy in a blaze of glory.
  39. 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
  40. 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
  41. apeot2002
    Jan 12, 2023
    9
    I made the jump from Total War Warhammer 2 to 3 more out of curiosity than necessity. 2 is a very fine game I have sunk over a hundred hours in, and wasn’t really looking for change. But, when Immortal Empires was released I thought it was time to start the Wood Elves playthrough I always wanted to do and the new hotness was too hard to resist.

    And now I can never go back. It’s not    I made the jump from Total War Warhammer 2 to 3 more out of curiosity than necessity. 2 is a very fine game I have sunk over a hundred hours in, and wasn’t really looking for change. But, when Immortal Empires was released I thought it was time to start the Wood Elves playthrough I always wanted to do and the new hotness was too hard to resist.

    And now I can never go back.

    It’s not just the gigantic new map with the eight new and all the old factions to fight. It’s definitely not the campaign I haven’t even started yet and that I hear so much bad things about. It’s all the little and not so little gameplay improvements that were added, all of them belonging to the category “I didn’t know I needed this, but now I can never give it up”.

    The reworked diplomacy system finally clearly communicates why certain offers are always going to be denied. The ally system allows for an even greater variety in army composition without changing the character of the faction armies too much. The millions of little changes to the battle systems make it so much easier to navigate the great battles and pull off some really stunning reversals at times. The late game crisis events that have the potential to shake up the end game grind. And, yes, the metric tons of new content helps a lot, too.

    Meanwhile the core gameplay loop is the same addictive power fantasy it always was. The production values are as atmospheric as before. Hopefully the commitment to the game by the studio will be as exemplary as it has been in the past, too. With one very substantial DLC pack already out, it sure looks that way.

    This game is a substantial improvement over Warhammer 2, without losing any of its essence. If you liked that one, absolutely go get this one.    … Expand
  42. drlsword
    Feb 19, 2022
    9
    Good prologue which is also a good tutorial, best in the series. Amazing units, factions and visuals. Do prefer the 2nd and 1st games campaign. But when combined with them the sand box will be great. Seems harder than the 1st. Good game.
  43. ChamoRTS
    Mar 2, 2022
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. There are several things to take into account but the most important thing is the gameplay and in that section there are things that do not add up to me, such as the fact that the demons or the undead suffer from fatigue.… Expand
  44. Thesign
    Jun 11, 2022
    9
    Great game overall, lots of improvements over previous entries. The campaign is very narrative based and not a good sandbox experience, but personally I like that. Looking forward to what's coming next
  45. angmarec
    Aug 7, 2023
    8
    On the start game was not really finished, and campaign is boring, but Immortal Empires campaign is great. Still need some work, and many races need updates, but now game is great
  46. Mandulum
    Apr 24, 2022
    8
    I rather enjoyed it at the start. But the game turns into a slog. Especially if you dally with the portals. I wasn't ready for the first one and got beat out on the second. It took forever to get my four souls.

    Date Completed: 2022-04-24
    Playtime: 45h
    Enjoyment: 8/10
    Recommendation: If you played the first two then you can answer this yourself
  47. adrii9715
    Feb 19, 2022
    8
    The game follows the same path as its prequels but feels new enough to be justified.
    What do I mean by justified? There are several mechanics, especially on campaign, which are a qualitative addition. Also, the new engine feels fantastic. The new races, let's call them 'the good side races', are very interesting and different from all the previous ones, however the forces of chaos felt    The game follows the same path as its prequels but feels new enough to be justified.
    What do I mean by justified? There are several mechanics, especially on campaign, which are a qualitative addition. Also, the new engine feels fantastic. The new races, let's call them 'the good side races', are very interesting and different from all the previous ones, however the forces of chaos felt like a single race divided into 4.
    I am looking forward to the free 'mortal empires' dlc that will add the rest of races from previous games to carry out my favorite campaigns.    … Expand
  48. PMG-Writer
    Feb 26, 2022
    8
    On the whole, the developers from Creative Assembly stick to the familiar gameplay in "Total War: Warhammer III". Thus, you still get exciting and interesting battles in numerous hours. Nevertheless, some things didn't turn out quite right and fans might have imagined something different. There are a lot of new and interesting approaches, and the introduction for newcomers is successful inOn the whole, the developers from Creative Assembly stick to the familiar gameplay in "Total War: Warhammer III". Thus, you still get exciting and interesting battles in numerous hours. Nevertheless, some things didn't turn out quite right and fans might have imagined something different. There are a lot of new and interesting approaches, and the introduction for newcomers is successful in our opinion. The technology also fits the game very well. Fans of the genre should take a closer look at "Total War: Warhammer III" and you won't be disappointed.… Expand
  49. GamesOnly
    Feb 19, 2022
    8
    In general it is the same as the previous one, classes are missing and it continues the same without punishing those who flee from battles
  50. myboyblue43
    May 16, 2022
    8
    It is an 8. Most content we have ever had on release when they had to work through lockdown. Most characters, factions, and most ambitious campaign they have ever attempted. Are their issues? Yes. There are issues for every game on release. Heck Elden Ring had issues on release. They have fixed the game breaking problems, have been transparent with their plans, and have VASTLY improved theIt is an 8. Most content we have ever had on release when they had to work through lockdown. Most characters, factions, and most ambitious campaign they have ever attempted. Are their issues? Yes. There are issues for every game on release. Heck Elden Ring had issues on release. They have fixed the game breaking problems, have been transparent with their plans, and have VASTLY improved the multiplayer side of the game that desperately needed overhauling.

    If the blood DLC, which I am annoyed with do not get me wrong, is what you are using to justify giving this a negative review then you honestly shouldn't be taken seriously.    … Expand
  51. Oldboimo
    Sep 3, 2022
    8
    The launch was terrible with a campaign that was only fun for 1 playthrough and very repetitive afterwards and a lot of bugs, crashes and performance issues. Now, with finally getting Immortal Empires the campaign problems are fixed and the game at least is playable for more than 1 playthrough again and running pretty smooth.
  52. Basilnth
    Oct 26, 2022
    8
    Any reviewsfrom before now are pretty valid. Loke previous war hammers the game was buggy and some changes to the estetic arent perfect BUT mod community allows for prefe free preference changing and the company has killed it in adding/fixibg/altering the game.

    Catch war hammer 3 in sale at least to try the veryvwell made tutorial and if your in? GRAB ALL THE GAMES base copies and join    Any reviewsfrom before now are pretty valid. Loke previous war hammers the game was buggy and some changes to the estetic arent perfect BUT mod community allows for prefe free preference changing and the company has killed it in adding/fixibg/altering the game.

    Catch war hammer 3 in sale at least to try the veryvwell made tutorial and if your in? GRAB ALL THE GAMES base copies and join the fight

    Dlc do a little research incase some stuff isnt your cup of tea    … Expand
  53. Padudu
    May 6, 2022
    7
    I can see the appeal but I just didn't find the game very promising or rewarding. The campaign was uninspiring and the improvements done compared to the previous titles just weren't enough for me to dig deeper into this game.
  54. eturyu
    Aug 16, 2022
    7
    I dont think im alone in saying i have little to no interest in Total War Warhammer 3, We are all here for Immortal empires. If they had "just" released Immortal empires, expanded the map and races, and not bothered with the new main campaign, i think everyone would have preferred it.
  55. 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
  56. Pahanshik2
    Feb 18, 2022
    7
    Где оптимизация ? Всё страшно тормозит, хотя желозо подходит!!!!!
  57. Sawicky
    Mar 20, 2022
    7
    On the whole I have played quite a fair bit and enjoyed it for the most part.

    However the realms of chaos are a massive chore and only really bring annoying mechanics into the game really putting me off. There are ways to avoid this which is why I have played so many hours. Lots of good improvements have been made Diplomacy is 100% better not perfect yet but tones better. As soon as a    On the whole I have played quite a fair bit and enjoyed it for the most part.

    However the realms of chaos are a massive chore and only really bring annoying mechanics into the game really putting me off.

    There are ways to avoid this which is why I have played so many hours.

    Lots of good improvements have been made Diplomacy is 100% better not perfect yet but tones better.

    As soon as a the major issues are sorted I’m sure it will be amazing.    … Expand
  58. 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
  59. 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.
  60. Valent1
    Aug 2, 2023
    7
    Très bon jeu de stratégie avec des combats et un mode campagne bien réalisés. J'enlève -1 pour la note car il y avait d'énormes problèmes d'optimisation au début mais il n'y en a plus beaucoup malgré des latences et des pertes de connexion à certains moments notamment pour les campagnes en coop.
  61. 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
  62. dwarfscotsman
    Feb 21, 2022
    6
    I think my rating will evolve over time, by the time all the DLC/FLC and patches are out (in 3 years & several hundred pounds later) I have no doubt that this could be a high 8 or even a 9, like WH2 is for me now.
    I have played TW games since the original ROME, so when I say this a 6, that's comparing to a bloody strong franchise history, I have played over 30 hours, in that time I got to    I think my rating will evolve over time, by the time all the DLC/FLC and patches are out (in 3 years & several hundred pounds later) I have no doubt that this could be a high 8 or even a 9, like WH2 is for me now.
    I have played TW games since the original ROME, so when I say this a 6, that's comparing to a bloody strong franchise history, I have played over 30 hours, in that time I got to turn 160 of Kislev on hard difficulty. Its insane and totally unbalanced, I had 30 chaos armies surrounding me, I have 2 armies and that’s all I can afford.
    Technical issues - I have a top end gaming PC and even CPU/gpu struggled, so as with most new games there are optimizations needed and CA are decent at sorting those. The graphics however, its obvious this is a reskin of 3 kingdoms (a game I utterly hate), everything on campaign map looks grainy same issue with 3k. I thought it was me but then I compared it to WH2 - its NOT even close to WH2 quality, this must be addressed.
    Campaign is unbalanced and AI spam is just tedious, battles there is nothing new at all, even managed to destroy a 20 stack slannesh army in 2minutes, really what is the point in having great graphics/unit textures if AI just rushes you.
    AI - Yes CA after 10 years of warscape it is still a brain dead on arrival Battle AI. As for siege fix/improvement, well you just copy/pasted the terrible 3K siege maps straight in to WH3, please just go back to WH2 sieges and make slightly bigger settlements, modders can do it why can't you??
    Overall and I'm sure there are several other issues but I can't be bothered (yes that’s how the game makes me feel right now) its average, not a great launch, bit similar to Rome2 launch in my view.
    Not sure why this got such high critics review - they obviously spent their 15 mins review time smiling at the cute Nurglings! This is a personal review and I hope to come back in time and re-write it. Oh and if you don’t agree with my opinion that 3K is by far the worst ever TW game, your entitled to your opinion and I am entitled to my own.    … Expand
  63. 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
  64. barbone3
    Sep 12, 2022
    5
    One Word: Lag.
    The game is not even that good, it's a copy and paste from shogun.
  65. 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
  66. 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.
  67. 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.
  68. bananajamslam
    Feb 18, 2022
    5
    The UI is pretty awful and the graphics are terrible, like blurry and glitchy at once. Noticeable pop-in and other issues.

    I could look past that, but the changes they made to the settlement battles are somehow worse than before. Huge maps that are a slog to get through with pathing issues causes your units to blob up. Most of the battles in these games end up being settlement battles,    The UI is pretty awful and the graphics are terrible, like blurry and glitchy at once. Noticeable pop-in and other issues.

    I could look past that, but the changes they made to the settlement battles are somehow worse than before. Huge maps that are a slog to get through with pathing issues causes your units to blob up. Most of the battles in these games end up being settlement battles, so it's kind of painful.

    I'm sure they can fix these issues with a bit of time, and I look forward to installing a mod to remove the settlement battles.    … Expand
  69. lowercases
    Feb 28, 2022
    5
    For each improvement, there's something fixed by game 2 that is somehow unfixed again. It joins a lack of optimisation, thread-bare factions and a bizarrely discordant campaign to give the game its sense of being slopped together carelessly. Apart from that, it's more of the same. That'll make the addicts happy enough, but it's unlikely to wow the rest as much as TW:WII did once upon aFor each improvement, there's something fixed by game 2 that is somehow unfixed again. It joins a lack of optimisation, thread-bare factions and a bizarrely discordant campaign to give the game its sense of being slopped together carelessly. Apart from that, it's more of the same. That'll make the addicts happy enough, but it's unlikely to wow the rest as much as TW:WII did once upon a time.

    Prepare your wallets for the privilege of many 15 euro fixes over the next few years. Joy.    … Expand
  70. Bosman666
    Mar 30, 2022
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Tears, crying and despair. WH: TW 3 is a product that was released too early, numerous bugs hindering the game, units execute orders with a large delay, during the AI siege it can immediately rebuild its turret after being destroyed. Graphic errors like a flying palisade in cities. Very bad optimization compared to other TW games, not including Attila (technical crap). I have a lesson not to buy a pre-order. If you are a TW fan, wait for the patches, if you are a Warhammer fan then buy a new box with models and wait for the patches.… Expand
  71. 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.
  72. 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
  73. 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
  74. 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.)
  75. 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
  76. 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
  77. 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
  78. 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
  79. 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.
  80. 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.
  81. 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
  82. 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,
  83. 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
  84. 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.
  85. 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.
  86. eventus
    Apr 8, 2022
    2
    Worst of the three parts. Totally unbalance piece of **** Not even acceptable as a dlc
  87. mambofffan
    Aug 22, 2023
    2
    Plus d'an an d'existence et pourtant encore pas mal de bugs et d'équilibrages aux fraises et CA se permet malgré ça de proposer une augmentation de 150% du tarif DLC. À croire qu'ils veulent que les joueurs se contentent des mods, parfois plus généreux en contenu.
  88. 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
  89. 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...
  90. 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
  91. 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.
  92. 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
  93. 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
  94. 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
  95. 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
  96. sirmel
    Aug 21, 2023
    1
    only fix bug every half year also each DLC now are extreme overprice 25€ is almost half of one full game for less than 20% content this is definitely an anti-consumer practice,
  97. 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!
  98. Doctorotto
    Sep 2, 2023
    1
    I fan of total war games, but that its that the worsts game on my experience from total war. You shout to spent too much money for open all race DLC in this game. Worst camping what I ever play. The worst game for what I ever pay in my life.
  99. ViniPuh
    Apr 6, 2023
    1
    They stopped supporting the Russian language. Harassment of Russian-speaking players.
  100. ber_aleks
    Apr 8, 2023
    1
    No politics in games! Stop denigrating the Russian people and their language!
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 65 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 61 out of 65
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 65
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  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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