Total War: Warhammer
2016
Audio: English · Subtitles: Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Czech, French, English, Italian, Korean, German, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish
- real time strategy (rts)
- role-playing (rpg)
- strategy
- turn-based strategy (tbs)
- action
- fantasy
- warfare
- single player
- multiplayer
- co-operative
The story
A unique combination of colossal real-time battles and an addictive turn-based sandbox campaign game of statecraft, politics and empire building, Total War: WARHAMMER will deliver hundreds of hours of absorbing gameplay. What is more, this title will go on to combine with two further standalone instalments and additional content packs to create the largest Total War experience ever. An epic trilogy of titles that will redefine fantasy strategy gaming. This is the dawn of a new era. Total War: WARHAMMER brings to life a world of legendary heroes, towering monsters, flying creatures, storms of magical power and regiments of nightmarish warriors.
What it’s like
Thick fog over miniature battlefields, sweeping overhead camera pulled back to show whole armies as moving ink-dark blocks, then zooming in close enough to see individual swordsmen clash under bruised storm skies. The palette runs grimy and warm: brass, rust, torchlight amber against cold stone grey, with magical bursts of green and violet that flare like lightning across the field. Sound is martial and heavy, drums and brass swelling under the clatter of steel, orc war-chants and the guttural bellow of minotaurs, while campaign-map moments fall quiet, with soft strategic music and the scratch of a quill over parchment. Pacing alternates between slow, deliberate turn-based scheming and sudden, pausable bursts of chaotic real-time combat. The vibe is grim, grand, and battle-hardened, with a dark-fantasy swagger that never fully lets up. Violence is frequent and stylised rather than gory: sword and axe cuts, monstrous creatures tearing through ranks, and morale collapsing in routs, with some horror in the nightmarish bestiary. For strategy players who want tactical depth, big-army spectacle and a long campaign to sink into over many evenings.
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