I am a fan.
Good tutorials are rare and actually enjoyable ones rarer still, andTotal War: Warhammer3’s is a treat.
It’s overloaded at times, caught up in the fun of all that Daemonic excess.
Total War: Warhammer 3 review
But that’s also the joy of it.
This is the silliest, most convoluted, most chaotically maximalist Total War game I’ve played.
It’s fireballs and flailing tongues and weird spikes.
And just walls and walls andwallsof tech trees, tooltips, and multipliers on top.
Anyway, the point is thank the frog-legged bird gods for Warhammer 3’s tutorial.
Can you spoil a prologue?
I can pick at it.
In fact I can pick at a lot of Warhammer 3.
And again, once you do kick things off for real, what a trip.
Warhammer 3, predictably, sprawls its grand campaign across an expansive, gorgeously implemented map.
In practice it makes for an extremely hectic experience.
The combination of the two is a mixed bag.
On the other hand,manis it stressful.
Fortunately it’s a mix of the two, and I’m leaning towards the former.
The same goes for those little romps in the Chaos Realms themselves.
But again, there’s the odd drawback.
It’s a tumultuous, dramatic, thrash-metal feast of stuff-on-screen.
A strategy game of everything at once, instead of one deliberate step at a time.
This also touches on one of the other, minor annoyances that come up with Warhammer 3.
There are an awful lot of new things added and almost none of it is fully explained.
I even got automatically dragged into a battle as reinforcementson their side.
There are other examples of this.
I think I’m puffing along somewhere in the middle of the pack.
And maybe that’s on me!
Maybe I should’ve paid more attention in the warmonger school of Warhammers 1 and 2.
But this is the crux of it with Warhammer 3 anyway: it asks a lot of you.
Demands it, even.
It is a demanding game.
It’s a tumultuous, dramatic, thrash-metal feast of stuff-on-screen.
A strategy game of everything at once, instead of one deliberate step at a time.
I bet this game’s cast had a blast in that studio.
Recently I caught myself - forgive me - explaining thrash metal to a friend who never got it.
I wish I could’ve explained it through Total War.
Right now, after a little while, I’m smitten.
And really in the mood for some Slayer.
