Like, this is the easiest Total War game I have played.
Spend a few hours with the game, though, and you notice that beyond the stuff that looks good in trailers there are real improvements that have been made here to the bedrock of the franchise itself. Sure, in the most immediate sense this is the biggest and baddest Total War: Warhammer yet: it’s gorgeous, it’s explosive and it’s jam-packed with Warhammer love (and lore), to the point where it’s tutorial also serves as a narrative prequel to the events of the main game, making it a must-play regardless of your skill level. In many respects Warhammer III does this effortlessly, in ways that are so clean and successful I didn’t even notice them at first. This third entry is not only building off the legacy of those first two games, then, but also Three Kingdoms, the major “historical” release interrupting the Warhammer games that was also Creative Assembly’s last major Total War effort, and which at the time felt like a near-perfect marriage of the series’ more serious strengths and its more recent, RPG-like eccentricities (I’ve since soured on it a little thanks to its tedious map and limited unit roster). Note : this review only covers the game’s singleplayer campaign, not its multiplayer. The second, however, was a revelation, as big, fresh and fun as a Total War game had ever been, or really, has been since. The first Total War: Warhammer was released all the way back in 2016, and was pretty great, if also a bit of an odd duck seeing as it was the studio’s first real foray into non-historical Total War settings. Time and a succession of good video games have proven me very, very wrong. How “seeing the series walk away from the real world was a blow”, and that “This isn’t even the good Warhammer. I remember putting on record back in 2016 how I thought Creative Assembly’s pivot to Warhammer games was a bad idea.
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