Total War: Warhammer 3 review – beautiful chaos

metro.co.uk:

Creative Assembly complete their Warhammer trilogy with a trip to the Realms of Chaos and what may be the best Total War game so far.

Video games weren’t the only industry to benefit from people being stuck indoors during lockdown. Lego saw a major increase in demand and so did board games and tabletop role-players. All three hobbies have a lot of crossover (as evidenced by the new Lego Horizon Forbidden West set) and with Warhammer being the king of wargaming there have been dozens upon dozens of game tie-ins over the decades. And yet this one is undoubtedly the best.

There’s a couple of slight caveats to that, in that we’re talking about the fantasy-based Warhammer universe here, not the sci-fi Warhammer 40,000 – where the Dawn Of War series still has plenty of fans. Warhammer 3 also has things somewhat easy in that it’s following up on two other excellent games, although this final entry certainly isn’t resting on any laurels.

It would be easy to assume that this was little more than a standalone expansion but that grossly underestimates not only the amount of effort that has gone into Warhammer 3, but how different it is to its predecessors. As well as adding new locations and armies it also makes notable changes to the gameplay and structure, in what is not only one of the best Total War titles but one of the best strategy games of any kind.

If you’re already familiar with Total War games such as Three Kingdoms and Troy then you’ll know they’re turn-based strategy games which use real-time battles to resolve combat. The actual Warhammer is, of course, turn-based so this is by no means a one-to-one recreation of the tabletop experience, but British developer Creative Assembly has a clear love for the universe and all the