Total War: WARHAMMER III

The game has become increasingly unstable with each update, and tends to crash a lot. Load times seem to be getting worse as well. Each update forces content into your campaign which every faction other than you gets, unless you pay money for the DLC. It was a great idea originally, and really liked to when it came out. Now it's a sad over monetised mockery of what it once was - which may make it the perfect representation of Games Workshop as a whole. -------------------- Update (changing from a 'no' to a 'yes') - Issues been resolved after going through every driver I could find and updating the BIOS. It does appear the game is more sensitive than anything else I use to old driver versions. The DLC setup is still annoying, and like so much of games workshop based things really does feel like it's trying to bleed every possible cent from you for the most minor of things - but if the game is functioning then the core of all issues is resolved and it's still overall the magnum opus of the Total War Warhammer Series.

Plague is in the air, the lands are corrupted and rat infestation underground but worst of all? those filthy elves.

Crashes constantly after latest patch and its very frustrating. I will change my review to a positive one as soon as the devs fix whatever it is they broke.

By far one of the best, coolest and most thoughtful strategy-type war games I've ever played! CRAZY amounts of cool and interesting content, great combat, TONS of stats and 'stuff' to ponder over, including really neat (and unique to different Races + Factions!) objectives and things to complete on the Campaign Map other than combat. Really really neat stuff, highly recommended if you're into this sort of fantasy war thing!

1000+ hours combined in all 3 Warhammer games combined. Haven't even scratched the surface of all the content there is, especially with mods like SFO Grimhammer. Playing with Ironman mode is extremely immersive. This is a game I will be playing for tens of years, just like Medieval 2 and Rome. Also yes to get all the content is expensive. You need 1 to 3 + the DLCs to access everything. It is pricey. It is also 10+ years of very active development and everything goes on sale regularly. All things considered the steep price makes sense.

This game and its dlc's have the worst ratio of playtime/money spent in my game library.

One of my best buys on Steam 20 hours in — one campaign done, two factions tried, still lost in all the mechanics Insane amount of content Other strategy games now feel like diet versions Must-have if you love commanding armies or want a deep strategy fix Wish I could watch auto-resolve battles — the fights are just too epic to skip

There are so many factions with so many different mechanics that each play through feels very unique. I just want some updates to the Bretonnians please.

I really wish i could recommend this game but they nickle and dim you every step of the way so I can't. Now if you don't mind spending a small fortune this game is very fun and to a certain extent the base game is fun as well. However there's just so much content locked behind pay walls that even getting it all on 50% or higher discounts it'll cost you as much as 4 new games. Overall i really do like the game i just wish they didn't price it and all dlc to death.

This will sadly mark the final Total War game I purchase. After opening the game it quickly becomes apparent that they've sold you only the introduction of the game. Almost everything is locked away behind a secondary purchase. When you add up the listed prices of all of the content of this game, you're looking at more than $500. That is just shameful. As for the game itself? It's okay. It makes a couple of good updates from the previous games, like allowing you to make a settlement in any province (so far at least I haven't played enough to say it's that way for every faction). There have also been some added chaos magic mechanics added, which make the game feel cluttered. That's ultimately the keyword of what I think of this game, it's very cluttered. The couple of factions I've seen so far have new game mechanics that take several restarts to learn effectively. The map is huge, there's something like 280 sub-factions in play when the game begins, it a lot to take in. I can't say it's an outright bad game, but the insanity of charging $500 for all of the content is just too distasteful to say otherwise. It's a horrible direction for the industry to take.

Its really annoying that the vast majority of lords are either paid DLC or you have to have bought previous games in the franchise, so I want to buy this game once. I wanted to play Lizardmen but all of the lords are unavailable because I do not have any DLCs at the time of writing this so I am kinda mad. I wanna play my game, paying once! But overall I like it. If you do not want to pay a lot I would not recommend.

Fun game, expensive to get everything, but worth it over the long run IMO.

600 dollars to get access to all content, hasnt fixed problems from the very first in the series. It's like one of those influencer restaurants where your meal looks amazing but tastes bland.

The game is very alluring, yet the gameplay is not convincing, or maybe just not my cup of tea anymore. I've played TW since the original Shogun and was a huge fan in my teens and early adulthood. I'm more of a history than Fantasy afficionado and had no prior knowldege of the WH setting. Yet the WH setting is what draws me to this game and tempts me to buy dlc (on sale), yet the gameplay turns me away. The giganric, trilogy spanning Immortal Empires world map is gorgeous: beautifully detailed, 288 factions across multiple races with a huge variety of units, leaders and magic. It's beautifully detailed But I think over the years, the TW formula has gone stale. Battles have become more and more fast paced, and requires too much fast paced micromanagment with the inflation of magicial abilities. Why design all these cool units and animate them when I never have the time to watch them in battle? This has become a thing for me. I wish I could have the AI fight and watch, with the ability to intervene at my leisure. Yet the AI is, after all these years, not competent enough, that I could watch this without a heart attack. Siege battles have been a problem so long, I think at this point you have to lose all hope when it comes to WH. So most of the time, it's autoresolve, which is again not working in the TW series, which has been real time battle first, turn based strategy second franchise. WH does not have enough meat on its bones in the campaign to compensate. It's no Paradox title. It offers variety since each race, and often each lord has its own gimmicks. Again, this is very alluring, yet the core campaign gameplay offers little depth. Again, the AI is as bad as ever, maybe even worse than in battles. Yet this is compensated by cheesy gameplay and massive cheating by the AI in higher difficulties to offer a challenge. The higher the difficulty, the more they will gang up on the human player. If you love this sort of challenge, you'll probaly find good fun and replayability. Yet again, the campaign suffers for being too fast paced. Basicially, it's all about the 20-40 turns, where you need to overcome the challenges above, if you mastered this phase, you'll likely be so strong that it will become tedious busywork. WIth this many factions, it becomes a fast paced Battle Royale, where factions die like flies and others are blobbing. Because of this, the campaign is long decided before you unlock the late game units, techs and magic which is unfortunate. This is the core problem of many strategy games: to make the endgame engaging. In WH:TW this is really pronounced. Depending on the difficulty level, it's more a master-your first 50 turns game than a deep, immersive strategy game. And so, every time I'm drawn to revisit this game, my initial enthusiasm is through the roof, and plummets within the first few hours. It's like a fly trap, luring you in to buy more dlc, only to leave you disapointed. CA is celebtraing 25 years of Total War, yet the company is at it's lowest point. There are few game series with this many titles, and at this point the only thing that keeps Creative Assembly afloat, are their shady business / dlc practices. The game franchise has been in need of a new engine and focus for so long. After heavy turbulences, they want to announce a new 'era of TW in December.' It may be their last chance to really turn the tide. As a longtime fan, I'm rooting for them.

I love this game and played it... well, playin' right now again, over and over again. But recently I have impression they slowed down the start screen and render the mod manager slow as snail. I hope it is some bug, not company policy. And I hope they will fix it

Amazing three games in one. Quite expensive with all DLCs, but worth it.

You get half if not less of a game for $60. You need to buy all the other games and DLC in those game to unlock content in this game? Yet you leave the content from 10 years ago at full price? Will never buy another piece of content from this company and will uninstall all these games. Why does such a good IP have to be in such greedy hands.

Listen up, future warlords of the digital age—this game is like crack, but with more dragons and slightly less legal trouble. I came for the big battles, stayed for the lore, and now I’m trapped in a never-ending cycle of "[i]just one more turn[/i]" until the sun comes up. [h2]The Good (Which is Most of It, Honestly):[/h2] [h3]Factions?[/h3] You mean my new hyperfixations? [b]Skaven:[/b] YES-YES! Backstabbing, nuke-spamming, rat-men who shouldn't exist but somehow rule the under-empire. [b]Kislev:[/b] Bears. More bears. Bear cavalry. BEAR SUPREMACY. [b]Cathay:[/b] "Oh wow, a balanced, disciplined faction—" PSYCHE, here’s two dragons who hate each other. [b]Empire:[/b] "SUMMON THE ELECTOR COUNTS!" (I have this macro’d to my keyboard now.) [b]Vampires:[/b] Goths who took "raise the dead" way too literally. [b]Chaos Dwarfs:[/b] Evil steampunk slavers. My moral compass: [spinning like a top] [b]Dwarfs:[/b] "THAT’S GOING IN THE BOOK!" (They have a book. For grudges. It’s hilarious.) [b]Lizardmen:[/b] DINOSAURS. RIDING. DINOSAURS. Need I continue? [b]Ogre Kingdoms:[/b] "MEAT." – Ogres, explaining their entire political system. [b]Wood Elves:[/b] If elves were Texas Rangers but with more trees and less guns. [b]Khorne:[/b] BLOOD. SKULLS. ANGER ISSUES. [b]Nurgle:[/b] Papa’s happy plague family. They’re disgusting. I love them. [b]Tzeentch:[/b] "Just as planned." (Translation: "I have no idea what I’m doing.") [b]Slaanesh:[/b] "Excessive perfection." (Also, why are the daemonettes like that?) [h3]DLCs?[/h3] Worth it. Thrones of Decay? Omens of Destruction? More like "Omens of My Wallet Crying But I Don’t Care." Unique mechanics, new toys, 10/10 [h3]Lore & Story?[/h3] Chef’s kiss. I’m out here quoting Warhammer like it’s Shakespeare while my cat judges me. [h3]Multiplayer?[/h3] Absolute chaos (pun intended). Nothing like watching your buddy’s elite army get wrecked Only downside? No in-game voice chat. [b]CA, it’s 2025![/b] [h3]Tzeentch’s Trial Battles?[/h3] Genius. Like a fantasy battle royale, except instead of a victory royale, you get the sweet taste of [b]Defeat[/b] [h2]The Not-So-Great:[/h2] [h3]Tomb Kings?[/h3] Look, I love my skeletal kings in theory, but their campaign is slower than a college student on a Monday morning. Wake me up when Settra remembers what "haste" means. [h3]Achievement hunting?[/h3] Did it. All of ‘em. My reward? A sense of pride, accomplishment, and a Steam profile that screams "I need sunlight." [h2]Final Verdict:[/h2] If you love strategy, fantasy, or just watching tiny digital men beat each other up in glorious detail, BUY THIS GAME. It’s got more content than my grandma’s fridge after Thanksgiving, and the community’s awesome. [b]FOR SIGMAR! FOR THE GREAT HORNED RAT! FOR WHOEVER’S WINNING THIS TURN![/b]

The game its self cost 60$ and you only get like 8 playable factions out of the like 40. Most of the factions you get from this are demonic factions which are fun but can sometimes be a little anoying to play and monotionus. The funny thing is to even be able to play those other factions you need to drop 20$ to play like 3-2 factions or buy the other games which is another 120$. Not to mention the game fucking crashes every other second if you breath the wrong way it will crash if you look at the game a funny way then it crashes. And one final fuck you is that to get blood you have to pay for it Total War are money grubing shit heads make your game better its been out for almost 3 years.

played for 50 hours and loved it. However after the LATEST patch it refuses to load my campaign, over 20 hours of gameplay lost, I followed the guid for resolving it and nothing works, it gets stuck on the loading screen then crashes if i try and click anything, please fix this. P.S. if you have run into this problem and fixed please comment how

One of the few games I would have paid triple the asking price, and still smiled and said thank you. If you like Total War, or Warhammer, or both, you should really get this one.

new update broke the game, it gets to 95% loaded and then freezes forever or crashes. i had 0 issues in 422 hours and now the game is unplayable, but at least the unplayable game only takes up 83gb instead of 120gb

random 55gig update that makes the game crash after every second battle well done.

Devs need downvotes for recent changes to chaos that make the game too easy if you're playing as chaos or impossible if you're playing an order faction that is anywhere near chaos in the early game. After the recent changes to Chaos, the auto-battle can show you winning 2/3rds of the bar. Then you ambush with a garrison and a second army at half power and still lose? Anyone who disagrees, go play Mother Ostankya's Kislev opening, using exclusively auto battle. It is possible that everyone ignores you and you get the towns you need to pop off (I did it 1/4), but it is completely at the chaos NPC's whim. If they target you too early you lose. The auto resolve will even portray it as a win, but it will be a loss. I am aware this alternate opening is supposed to be difficult, but the amount of bullshit the Khorne gets means even the nobody factions like Aarbol can completely oppress you, even if you rush the growth and economy you need for Ice warriors and Lil Groms. I'll change my review if they fix it so order is playable and chaos isn't laughable easy again someday.

The game has got too big for CA to handle, too many factions have bugs and are neglected for example wood elves have forest bonuses are bugged making fighting in woods useless for a faction that NEEDS those bonuses and oxyotle sanctum buildings are bugged his key mechanic

Turn based Strategy with real time battles. The AI is moderately good so you need not play online. Each faction/race is different so playing a different faction or race is like playing a new game.

9/10. Very ambitious game with many factions with so many different mechanics that each play through feels very unique. Lots of content unfortunately to be purchased and this game in vanilla is not worth its price of $60 so keep that in mind. Just very expensive. If you want to stick to the Total War Franchise cheaper options are Shogun 2 or Napoleon Total War. (Both of those games are still 10/10's). Good modding community too. This is the first warhammer game ive played and compared to the few other total war titles this game does feel like a breath of fresh air with its variety, unique mechanices, and just overall fun lords and units. (My favorite lord is Grom the Paunch, i recommend getting his dlc).

There's going to be a lot of asterisks here, but at the end of the day, I absolutely recommend this game. The community loudly, frequently complains (oftentimes they're right to!) and that might put you off, but to be honest this game is FABULOUS. It's the best of the total warhammer games because it fixes the things about the past games that irks me, has EVERYTHING, and the new problems it introduces are not worse than the problems of past TWH games. Great new factions, great new stuff. If you've never played a game like this before it can be very overwhelming, and even if you're used to playing historical total war it can still be quite tough to learn how this game differs from it. Stick with it and you'll find something wonderful here for you, though! The modding community is EXCELLENT and I strongly recommend looking into it if you get this game. The asterisks I mentioned earlier however are all dollar signs. Yes, you can play every faction in every total warhammer game in this game, in multiplayer, with your friends - and with massive awesome improvements like having everyone able to participate in battles that you play out and don't autoresolve (in past games you either autoresolved or wasted your friends' time, here you can elect to give them control over this or that unit or set of units in your army, or they can even try to take up the other army's side and fight you! It's GREAT. Giant, giant improvement, favorite change for sure!) Yes, you can do this. However. The price tag is [i]severe[/i], and it's very difficult to know whether or not you'll enjoy a faction without playing at least a few hours of them. At time of writing, without sales involved, you're spending several hundred dollars to get the 'complete' package, and new DLCs are also not cheap at all. So if you want to get this game, spend strategically. Wishlist, wait for sales. The game is excellent, and having access to ALL the games and ALL the factions and being able to play out the campaigns for the different factions in past games (I think total warhammer 2's campaign is especially neat, I just don't like its gameplay nearly as much as this game) is well worth a significant price tag, we're talking hundreds and hundreds of hours spent having a blast here, and many more with friends - but your wallet's going to feel it.

for someone who has limited pc experience, total war 3 is easy to follow and learn. the campaign offers a multitude of gameplay and the choice of factions is great.

You play as a warlord of any race, you then spend most of your time questioning your sanity as to why you are now losing money. But hey that rare new troop seems like a fine addition, that cant be the problem surely its your sources of money.

The total war series has a real habit of forcing games of you vs the world. I am not impressed with every game seeming to be me vs 3 strong foes before turn 10. Also I am really unimpressed with the rats and how someone was like... yeah, lets put in this super unfun race to play against with equally unfun stealth mechanics added. The game isn't bad when you aren't under attack by 5 races, really can be fun. But when I load a game on normal I am not signing up for the McGangbang... stop sending me your toughest battles!

Total war: warhammer III is very fun, and very compatible with mods, BUT - too access said fun, it is recommended to have more races, to get the races in tww1 and tww2 you have to own the games as well, plus there are still a few races that you have to buy, PLUS PLUS there is usually still a few factions in the races you own that you also have to buy to play as. To buy all three games would be $180, so you should wait for them to go on sale, which happens around every major sale event (eg summer sale, winter sale, etc) if you want wood elves or ogres (races) they are about $20 separately not on sale (not all races are $20 but not far off), and factions that some races do not come with are about $9 not on sale (they come with 2 factions but you cant decide the 2nd one so no guarantee you will want the other faction) Anyway, i'm not saying you need all races or factions to have fun, i just want to make it clear how expensive it can get if you plan on playing other races. Still gets updates, a lot of fun and expansive mods, i love it, totally recommend it.

They made sieges even worst . Quest battles are terrible . Immortal Empire campaign dont give achievements for finishing. The performance of the game is bad .

I like the setting a lot, playing with friends is fun, it ain't a bad game and I would probably love it if I had my mind not poisoned by other total war games. I just hate some of the fundamental design decisions in the battles, in the campaign, in UI and AI. I just always feel at least a little disappointed playing this game because I know how spectacular it could have been if some of these core ideas were more like in for example Shogun 2 or Medieval 2. Ain't no patch going to fix that tho.

good game, expands well on the previous games in terms of content. Biggest issue is loading times without an SSD will vary from machine to machine but it was taking sometimes 5 minutes to load in battles and start the campaign. If you don't have an SSD then you'll likely spend as much time loading as you will playing

If I had only one game to play for the rest of my life, it would be this one. So much replayability!

Too Much pay to play content. This game costs enough as it is so why do i need to pay hundreds more just to play a faction that looks cool and performs better. sounds like pay to win doesn't it?

I love strategy games so much, but there are too many sub-optimal game design decisions that were made which make the game a total chore past the mid-game. You will literally never get to the end game unless you suffer through hours of boredom. Also, the multiplayer experience is absolutely TERRIBLE. Freezing the game when anyone is in a battle or making a decision slows the game down tremendously and is very frustrating. Also, in the 30 hours of gametime I've probably crashed about 4 times when loading into battles. The positives: - single-player can be very fun - the model design and sound design are so cool - the LORE, the textures, and quests are very epic

This game is great and I look forward to seeing the DLC's in the future. I always love playing this style of game as im a Dad now and I can pause and come back to it whenever I need. I would recommend this to any Warhammer Fantasy fan or anyone who likes seeing cool animations and having armies under their command in games.

Great game and replayability. Some flaws here and there.

CA (the devs) have created the best fantasy strategy game since battle for middle earth. The third game in the series had a rough launch, and some turmoil around the shadows of change dlc, but all of that is behind us now and this game is still good and still growing

for the amount of time ive played its been well worth it. more entertainment/escape then youll get from most games regardless of DLCs and there price. also my games doesnt crash even with mods and updates? No peace, only war

After playing this game i have never been more impoverished, by the game when its on sale, also would recommend buying the dlc's (on sale obviously) it makes the game really fun

First, I hate it, I sucked even on normal campaing difficulty, then I learned to not autoresolve and played on hard battle dfficulty, it feels good.

The numerous complaints about the cost/value of the game are completely valid. It's absurd how much DLC content is needed to have any diversity of army choice...particularly when this is a game that largely just builds on assets from the previous two, anyway. I ultimately succumbed to the greed here and purchased another army because the starting choices are (to me) incredibly underwhelming. There really isn't much improvement here over the previous two titles, but there are several things here that are actually worse: The siege battles that I've fought thus far are a drag--having armies fight in what amounts to hallways is not fun. The prologue (>3 hours) is was tedious and immediately predictable. The storyline thus far isn't as compelling as the vortex/race component that is the primary driver in Warhammer II. Altogether, I'm simply not *enjoying* this as much. Ultimately, I'll probably keep banging my head against the wall to try to get my money's worth out of this, but if considering purchasing this or the game's predecessors, I'd recommend sticking with Warhammer II.

Background: - I grew up watching my best friend play Rome: Total War on a crappy Compaq laptop. That aside, I have very little experience with Total War. I've played Shogun 2 (for a bit, which was great) but if it boils down to games that are 'role-playing a civilisation', I'd always veered to Civ V, and then later - EU IV. Which wasn't to say Total War sucks or is worse than those games - but I've always been more interested in why Marc Anthony challenged Augustus, instead of whether I could win the War of Actium through better tactics/prep-time. A good price on Warhammer 3 came recently this year. I've always had Warhammer 1 and 2, but had difficulties running it prior to my current PC set-up. Those issues were resolved, hence why I decided to give it a bona fide try again in the probably more improved Warhammer 3. Review: - I wrote a long essay on what I liked and what I disliked in like, my first 20 hours of gameplay - but I'll just summarise the salient points: - 1. The game has a lot of complexity and the in-game tutorials aren't that helpful. But strategy games are known to be quite non-intuitive. You're going to need a both a willingness to try things out (and screw-up) and a few Youtube videos - but it's not rocket science. You don't need an excel sheet. 2. The game is fun, and more importantly losing is fun. You can easily pinpoint what went wrong, what kind of non-optimal decisions you're making, and then find out what's the optimal thing to do in that situation. 3. Sieges suck. Any battle that's not taking place on an open field sucks to play because there's too much micro-managing. Can you get better at it? Probably. Challenges for a different day. Thankfully the game has auto-resolve. 4. Factions play extremely different from one another. Which gives the game variety, strategic depth, and also flavour. If you're playing as Undead Pirates - you literally feel like undead pirates. It's great. 5. DLC kinda feels like gouging, and having a lot of (fun) additions to the game locked behind a paywall (and not even a cheap paywall...) isn't optically good. I'm not happy with it, but at the same time there's little to no competitors who aren't doing the same thing. Civilisation has the same problem, and Paradox is probably the most egregious offender. FWIW the DLC isn't essential, but it does affect my enjoyment of the game somewhat - knowing that there's a part of a game that I paid for that I have no access to because the developers add things in piece-meal fashion. Tl;dr buy on sale. Game is good quality and I'm really having a lot of fun! - but you'll need the lower prices just to make the thought of buying the DLC palatable.

First time I wanted to jump into Wahammer total war series, I choose this one, starting the prologue campaign I fell in love but I couldn't even get a long. So many glitches and crashes make this game very frustrating to play, tried so many configurations and watched some youtube videos in order to find a proper solution. No matter what I do, the game keeps crashing. It's a waste of time and money, will look into the previous games to see if I can get some good experience, my recommendadiont, stay away from this one.

No voice in our ears but the maw We relish the sound of its call We'll plunder and feast On any man any beast Doesn't matter, we'll snack on them all

10/10 game but the campaign map will burn your computer to the ground