Total War: Warhammer 3 Reviews - a Worthy Crown for the Trilogy

Total War: Warhammer III will hit PC on Thursday, February 17, and you can already check how the third part of the fantasy spin-off to the Total War series is doing in the reviews. Our text can be found below.

1. Total War: Warhammer 3 Review - Quality of War

Total War: Warhammer 3 - selected reviews

1. Gamepressure - 8.5/10
2. CGMagazine - 9/10
3. IGN - 9/10
4. PC Gamer - 90/100
5. TheSixthAxis - 9/10
6. Windows Central - 4.5/5
7. Dexerto - 8.5/10
8. Gamestar.de - 88/100
9. God is a Geek - 8.5/10
10. TheGamer - 4/5
11. Cultured Vultures - 7.5/10
12. Metascore: 87/100 (average of 28 ratings)

Judging by the reviews, it is a good thing that Total War: Warhammer III is the culmination of this subseries. This is partly because the third game is an excellent strategy game, full of improvements over its predecessors. Reviewers especially praise the new diplomacy and siege systems, but they also mention better AI and many small but helpful tweaks.

Praise also goes to the campaigns - both their story layers (according to many, the third game has the best story of the whole trilogy), as well as the addictive gameplay, forcing us to venture on dangerous expeditions into the land of Chaos.

Ad to this the perks you would expect from the last Total War: Warhammer - expanded tactical and strategic gameplay, units and factions much more diverse than in historical installments of the series and, of course, the atmosphere of Warhammer pouring out of the screen.

Old World, Old Flaws

However, there is also another side to the coin. TW: Warhammer 3 can be called the best part of the series, but in some places it is clear that this sub-cycle has aged. Although the developers have taken care to improve the audiovisual layer, the game engine is clearly outdated.

1. Great visual style and new animations do not change the fact that in some places the title looks like at least a few years old production - not only in terms of visuals, but also gameplay mechanics (for example, as one reviewer said, the use of "geography" in battles).
2. While on the subject of the technical layer, some problems must also be mentioned. Here and there you can find complaints about long loading times and slightly lacking optimization. The latter causes, among other things, a drop in performance when notifications from other applications pop up, but this bug is expected to be fixed in day one patch (via Windows Central).

A separate "flaw" mentioned in reviews is... the huge scope of the game. Veterans of the subseries are unlikely to have problems finding their way around, but newcomers will spend some time learning the basics, even with the new, more polished, and even - as some want - "the best" tutorial created by Creative Assembly to date.

However, even journalists who wrote about the outdated elements of the game had much more to say about the advantages. Total War: Warhammer III is an excellent conclusion to the Warhammer trilogy from Creative Assembly and simply a very good strategy game. Players will be able to form their own opinion on February 17.

Total War: Warhammer III

February 17, 2022

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• strategy games
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• Total War (franchise)
• turn-based strategies
• Warhammer Fantasy