The hordes of Chaos will finally hit the battlefield this year with Total War: Warhammer 3, announced today by Creative Assembly and Sega. Along with the four main flavors of Chaos (Khorne, Nurgle, Slaanesh and Tzeentch), the third game in the strategy series will add the polar bear Kislev and China analogue Cathay. Watch here how a Kislev ice witch gives a daemon to kick the movie.
The series has been one of the best strategy games so far, so yes, more please. For the third time, the great campaign revolves around ‘saving or harnessing the power of a dying god’. Today’s announcement says: “Each race offers a unique journey through the nightmare Chaos Realm, culminating in an endgame that will determine the fate of the world.” Seems irresponsible to put it in my hands.
Creative Assembly still plans to release a massive map spreading all three games in one campaign, for people who own all three, although they note in a series of frequently asked questions that ‘we are currently focusing on Total War: Warhammer III. ‘ The Mortal Empires campaign finally hit Twarhammer 2 a month after launch, making it sound like Twarhammer 3 could follow later as well.
Total Warhammer 3 will be coming to Epic as well as Steam, and they plan to bring over the first two as well. If you already own Steam, it’s probably best to stick with Steam, since you do not have access to the others or their DLC on Epic. So you need all three in the same store to play the combined card, and so on. While they ‘hope’ to implement a way for people to link Steam and Epic accounts, you should not count on it. “We can not guarantee this functionality at any time,” they say, “but will continue to work thereafter in collaboration with the storefront operators.”
Total War: Warhammer 3 will appear later this year on Steam and the Epic Games Store. It will at least have Windows at launch, and Mac and Linux versions of Feral Interactive come ‘so close to launch day’. They plan to offer a Race Park as the “Early Adopter Bonus” for people who pre-order or buy within the first week.
Disclosure: Oh woe, our co-founder Alec Meer (RPS in peace) already writes for Total Warhammer 3.