Total War: WARHAMMER III News

Total War: Warhammer 3 release time confirmed

The Total War: Warhammer 3 release date is nearly here, so you might be itching to get started if you've been reading the reviews. Critics have broadly given the strategy game a nine-out-of-ten score across the board, including our own editor extraordinaire - you can read the Total War: Warhammer 3 review here, if you fancy it. With launch day looming, though, Creative Assembly has spelled out when exactly you'll be able to play Total War: Warhammer 3.

If you're looking to prepare your PC for the big launch, the good news is that you can pre-load Total War: Warhammer 3 now. The pre-launch feature went live on February 15 at 3pm GMT / 10am EST / 7am PST, so you should be good to get started.

If you're looking for the Total War: Warhammer 3 system requirements in the meantime, you can find them at the link. You'll need 120GB of free space, so it's good to be prepared.

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Unlock Total War: Warhammer III bonus race with this pre-order

The marriage between the Total War series and Warhammer, has given us two fantastic games so far - and the third one looks set to become another classic strategy game. If you're someone who's keen to get their hands on this game on day one (without a PC Game Pass subscription), the good news is that you can now pre-order it from Fanatical for 21% off the launch price.

So what sets Total War: Warhammer III apart from its two prequels? Well, for one thing, this game sees the introduction of several new races. Warhammer fans will be pleased to see the inclusion of the Grand Cathay and Kislev civilisations, based on Imperial China and Mediaeval Russia, respectively. On top of that, the game also includes factions based on the four Chaos Gods, Khorne, Tzeentch, Nurgle, and Slaanesh.

All the new races will enhance Total War: Warhammer III's multiplayer mode, but what about players who are more interested in the single player experience? Rest assured, the game has you covered on that front too. The game's story focuses on the four Ruinous Powers within The Realm of Chaos, who seek to plunge the world into darkness. With this realm beyond the world, the Grand Cathay and Kislev empires are brought into contact, even though they'd never have crossed paths before.

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Total War: Warhammer 3 Mortal Empires - everything we know

So you want to know about Total War: Warhammer 3 Mortal Empires? Creative Assembly confirmed the release of a new, big map combining all three games via the official Warhammer III FAQ. The studio states that, "We will release a massive combined map that will be a huge free DLC for owners of all three games, and we'll have more detail later."

We also got a little bit more detail when we interviewed game director Ian Roxburgh ahead of the Warhammer 3 release date. "It's definitely coming," Roxburgh reiterated, "It'll be everything we promised - all three games combined. We're not going into detail about the shape it'll take yet, but rest assured it's still the ultimate culmination of the vision behind the trilogy. I don't think the map will be much bigger, because the map in Warhammer III is twice as big as before, and bigger than Mortal Empires."

At the moment, that's all we know for sure. The new map may not even be called 'Mortal Empires' but considering that's what the equivalent expansion was called following Warhammer II's release, that's what the community is working with for now. You may have also seen the term 'Immortal Empires' floating about, althought this isn't official.

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Total Warhammer 3 reviews - our roundup of the critics' scores

The Total Warhammer 3 release date is fast approaching and, ahead of its arrival, the reviews are beginning to pour in like daemonic Nurgle slime. With the strategy game due to drop later this week, now's a great time to see what the critics have made of it to see if it'll be worth your hard-earned groats - so, let's find out what they've been saying.

First up, is PCGamesN's own Total War: Warhammer 3 review. Editor Rich Scott-Jones scores it a hearty nine out of ten, calling it a "triumphant step forward for Total War on almost every front, boasting not just the best and most diverse single-player campaigns ever, but a revolution in multiplayer, too". He notes that the "ambition and the attention to detail is palpable with every click, and proof that Warhammer has surpassed history to become Creative Assembly's premier product". So, high praise indeed.

Scores tell the same story pretty much across the board, with plenty of reviews putting Creative Assembly's latest near the top of the scale. The game is currently sat at 88 and 87 on review aggregate sites Opencritic and Metacritic, respectively.

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Total War: Warhammer 3 review - triumphant strategy trilogy

My Daemon Prince, Egrimm, crosses into the Realm of Chaos, and I'm feeling confident; I'm the first contender in this cosmic game show to enter Tzeentch's fun house. But then, a twist: having arrived several turns after me, Skarbrand walks into a portal that sends him directly to the final round, where a daemon soul awaits in the Impossible Fortress, but only for one claimant. The rest of us will leave with nothing.

The portal was unfixed, its path random, and so his success is blind luck. Having worked to uncover the path the proper way, I'm now a turn behind him, able to catch up but not overtake. My only option is to take him out of the game by force, so I break our non-aggression pact and attack. I get the soul, but Skarbrand - 'roid rage in daemon form - bears a grudge for the rest of the campaign. He becomes a constant menace on the icy northern shores of my empire, until I bribe N'Kari into distracting him for me.

It's not exactly an emergent story, but it's certainly an anecdote. Warhammer fans may get an extra kick out of it as it's lore-authentic: the forces of Chaos working together until pride and jealousy - mine, in this case - intervenes to stop the ascent of a rival. This is what Total War: Warhammer III's new Realm of Chaos campaign delivers - and you can pre-order it here, coincidentally.

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