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Total War: Three Kingdoms
Total War: Three Kingdoms is the first in the series to recreate epic conflict across ancient China. Combining a gripping turn-based campaign of empire-building & conquest with stunning real-time battles, Three Kingdoms redefines the series in an age of heroes & legends.
Details
- Released
- May 23, 2019
- Developer
- The Creative Assembly
- Publisher
- Sega Games, Sega
- Platforms
- PC
How it plays
Up to 2 players
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Total War: Three Kingdoms Reviews
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Total War: Three Kingdoms begins in the year 190 CE, in war-ravaged China, and the Han Empire is in ruins. The Tyrant, Dong Zhuo, has taken the child-emperor captive, and in doing so holds the fate of millions in his cruel grasp.
As the first historical mainline Total War game since Rome II‘s disastrous launch over six years ago, Total War: Three Kingdoms had a lot to prove. While the Warhammer games received near universal praise, the two historical spin-offs released in-between, Attila and Thrones of Britannia, were considered disappointing at best. Total War: Three Kingdoms had to escape the mistakes of its predecessors, ease the discontent of the fanbase over Creative Assembly’s apparent “neglect” of the ...
When the trailer for Total War: Three Kingdoms was revealed, we were suitably hyped. It did suffer a two-month delay but the game is now out and we managed to put some hours into it. We quickly decided we had to do our own Total War: Three Kingdoms review.
A hugely enjoyable mix of historical realism and exaggerated action that is both surprisingly accessible and filled with an impressive depth of tactical options.
As a franchise, Total War is known for realism, with lowly axemen eating barrages of arrows as trebuchets tear into city walls. Then the Total War: Warhammer games bent those rules, and now that bending continues with Total War: Three Kingdoms, albeit in a less extreme fashion. This installment embraces Chinese fantasy in the era of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, with larger-than-life commanders and their reigns. History-driven battles take a backseat to lively hero duels and big personalities. The experience is more enjoyable if you’re willing to suspend your disbelief and engage in a massiv...
You were a bandit queen, young and sweet, only eighteen.
Overall, Total War: Three Kingdoms can be summed up as yet another great entry in the long-running series. While it may not be the absolute pinnacle of what Creative Assembly can achieve, it has become my favorite entry simply because of the setting used. We’ve reached a point where your personal favorite Total War will be determined more by the property being adapted than any worry about quality or gameplay factors. Since everything is fine in Three Kingdoms, what else do I really need to say?
With an ever increasing amount of games getting console releases, the PC gamer can typically only point to having the best version of a title. Total War has always been a hold out and is one of the few AAA quality PC exclusive series left. While Total War veterans might be justified for feeling a bit of fatigue with the battle system, there's still plenty fresh in Total War: Three Kingdoms to enjoy. This is a game that brings an amount of depth that would be frightening if there wasn't also systems in place to help guide a new player. It's dripping with a beautiful style that evokes the era wh...
Three Kingdoms' diplomacy system is a real step forward for the series, but what about the rest of the game?
I love the idea of placing myself into the distant past, of believing that I’m immersed in the problems and opportunities of ancient warlords. Three Kingdoms delivers, in the sense that it gives me the gift of a genuinely absorbing historical fantasy. It’s out now on Windows PC, Mac, and Linux.
Total War: Three Kingdoms is a strategy game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega. The game is the latest addition to the Total War franchise, which comprises games that are a mix between turn-based strategy and real-time military battles. For anyone who has never played a Total War game before, there can be a lot to wrap your head around. But where previous generations could have a complex and sometimes overwhelming interface, Total War: Three Kingdoms offers sleek and beauti...
Three Kingdoms is an absolutely massive game, but it has a very clear thematic focus on the Three Kingdoms period - specifically the Romance of the Three Kingdoms - and a very clear mechanical focus on individual heroes. The shift bears an obvious resemblance to Crusader Kings II, which uses the lives of individual characters to liven up a game which might otherwise be stuffy. Indeed, Three Kingdoms defuses the impersonal, often boring expansion of empire which has plagued previous games in the series like Rome II with a riveting web of friendships, rivalries and grudge matches. Despite the re...