Total War: Warhammer II

|19 February 2018

Why Total War: Warhammer 2 is the greatest strategy game of all time

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Alan Bradley

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Total War: Warhammer II is the greatest strategy game of all time. That is a bold claim, sure, but one that gets easier to make with every subsequent piece of DLC that bolsters Creative Assembly’s masterpiece.

That is not to say the core game isn’t strong by itself. It manages to preserve what is special about the Total War series: the masterful blend of intense real-time battles with a complex and interesting meta layer of strategy and logistics. Layer in a tremendous helping of fantasy and lore from one of tabletop gaming’s most beloved series and you have a winner.

Find out how Total War: Warhammer became a story-driven series on the sly.

But that was not obvious when the first Total War: Warhammer was announced. There was a lot of trepidation from fans of both series, especially when details about how each faction would play differently emerged, and how they would only be able to capture certain territories. The fear was that adding Warhammer to the Total War formula would be more oil and water than peanut butter and chocolate.

The game’s launch silenced those criticisms. CA proved that a skillful twist on Total War’s core gameplay loop was exactly what the series was begging for, refreshing what had become a well-trod and almost stale formula. Instead of tilting Total War into fanciful nonsense, the liberal streaks of Warhammer added new layers of strategy to consider, all without fouling up the tactical and strategic warfare the developers had spent years perfecting.

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