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Nearly every Total War release prompts curious TW virgins to wonder if this is their moment to jump into the nightmare. Said bear-god has been put in godjail by the demon Be’lakor, objectively the biggest dickhead in Warhammer, after having got battered in TWW3’s prologue campaign, and now everyone wants to bust him out. In this case, x equals four, y equals devil souls (one from each of the four realms of Chaos), and z equals a dying bear-god. In classic overblown fantasy style, TWW3’s campaigns are all about collecting x number of ys, in order to unlock a z. Still, there is plenty to say about this game as it stands. And to me, honestly, that’ll be the verdict that matters more. There’ll be as much to say again about TWW3 when all that is done. Oh, and then CA will start barking out a long stream of faction packs as well. This will allow the game’s map, factions and systems to fuse with those of its predecessors, producing a sandbox strategy game of truly mind-buggering scope and - unless something goes horribly wrong - giving players the yawning digital strifehole we’ve spent a lot of the last decade dreaming of hurling our lives into. TWW3’s final consecration as a place of worship will occur some time over the coming months, when developers Creative Assembly release the Mortal Empires update.
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Because while the last stones of this electric cathedral have been lowered into place, the phone line to God hasn’t been wired in yet. And here’s where the future sticks the boot in. It’s a genuinely epic construction a proper Pillars-Of-The Earth-level feat of game development. While it is very much a game you can buy and enjoy on its lonesome, TWW3 is perhaps better considered as the last, grand instalment of a game whose release began nearly eight years ago with Total War: Warhammer. For indeed, just like beloved Warhammer villain Ebeneezer Scrooge, any attempt to form an opinion on this game has to contend not just with the present, but with the bedevilments of its past and future to boot. It’s utterly massive in itself, with eight hulking single player campaigns at launch, not to mention a greatly expanded range of multiplayer and PvE skirmish options. Total War: Warhammer 3 is an extremely hard game to review in isolation. A little too much RTS grind in the midgame is easily outweighed by transformative changes to multiplayer, sieges, diplomacy and more. Though best considered as the final part of an excessive strategy megagame, Total War: Warhammer 3 is a heavyweight in its own right.