Total War: Warhammer Reviews and Videos (NDA lifted)

[Ethien]

The NDA is up. If you have any links, I'll add them to the thread.

Articles
PCGamesN - http://www.pcgamesn.com/total-war-wa...rhammer-review
EuroGamer - http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...rhammer-review
Destructoid - http://www.destructoid.com/review-to...medium=twitter
Gamespot - http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/tota...GSS-05-10aaa0b

Let's Plays
SurrealBeliefs - The Empire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omHbsCKPj9Y
SurrealBeliefs - Dwarfs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXxD0sO_vTA

Battles
PixelatedApollo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rgU_sqPYfA

[Abdülmecid I]

There's already a bunch of them released, the vast majority of which are very positive, despite frequently contradicting themselves (e.g. diplomacy). The only relatively less enthusiastic is GAMEREVOLUTION's one.

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http://www.gamerevolution.com/review...-war-warhammer

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http://www.gamesradar.com/total-war-warhammer-review/

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http://www.cgmagonline.com/reviews/t...eam-pc-review/

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http://metro.co.uk/2016/05/19/total-...h-fun-5892657/

Honestly, most reviews should better be ignored, but even the Guardian, whose reviewer was one of the few journalists that panned Rome II, approved of CA's new game.

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https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...d-high-fantasy

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http://www.gamewatcher.com/reviews/t...r-review/12564

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http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2016/05/...hammer-review/

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http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/...rhammer-review

[Arimahn]

Looks like I expected - Blobbing galore, completely anemic charges. Another Warscape game in other words.

[Påsan]

Eh screw reviews, anyone on this forums knows more about Total war and what it is supposed to be than any of those random people. If anything its an indication of "what does new players think of this game" Watch Youtube people. My feed got flooded with them this morning.

Heirofcharthage reviews. This dude knows how to be critical and fair. As in he dont bash a game for the controversy and if he dont like something he'll say it. Also he knows TW game and battle mechanics better than most other youtubers from what I've seen. (From the warscape generation, Pixie is probably the best at the Med2 generation)

[craziii]

damn, dwarfs need some high speed units.

[D@gget]

Also, Legend of Total War. He is known to find and expose the cracks in the game's designs, since he actively looks for exploits and points them out. He does the job a QA tester is supposed to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JCT...gendofTotalWar

[HigoChumbo]

Rock Paper Shotgun

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/201...hammer-review/



PC Gamer

http://www.pcgamer.com/total-war-warhammer-review/

[r3dshift]

So, strategy has been castrated, according to RPS. That sounds bad.

[craziii]

So, strategy has been castrated, according to RPS. That sounds bad.

I am not worry, it sounds like something that can easily be changed with pfm.

[anduril38]

Any concrete talk about performance? Hardly any of these so called reviews mention it....and after Rome 2, it's so ​important they get this right first time.

[illathid]

Any concrete talk about performance? Hardly any of these so called reviews mention it....and after Rome 2, it's so ​important they get this right first time.

Heir of Carthage seems like he talked about it fair amount. Says it runs better than Attila on the same rig and hasn't gotten a single crash n 30 hours of playing.

[Arimahn]

It finally supports 64 bit systems, so that is a big help.

[Twido]

From what I can tell, it looks better than I feared but not as good as I hoped.

There seems to be loads of nice features and touches but I'm not convinced that they will cover over the gaping problems in the core of the game. Almost none of the reviews I have read even mention these problems, so either it isn't so bad in practice or the reviews are not objective.

[The Despondent Mind]

Eh screw reviews, anyone on this forums knows more about Total war and what it is supposed to be than any of those random people. If anything its an indication of "what does new players think of this game" Watch Youtube people. My feed got flooded with them this morning.

Heirofcharthage reviews. This dude knows how to be critical and fair. As in he dont bash a game for the controversy and if he dont like something he'll say it. Also he knows TW game and battle mechanics better than most other youtubers from what I've seen. (From the warscape generation, Pixie is probably the best at the Med2 generation)

You are right, it is so infurating to see these mainstream outlets "reviewing" tw title, they clearly have no damn idea about total war.


One of the best examples is typing rome total war 2 on youtube and seeing IGN's review compared to Angry Joe or ReynoldSanity.

[Huberto]

So, strategy has been castrated, according to RPS. That sounds bad.

Rob Zacny (the RPS article author) is a very good critic; I would trust his review and I'm sure they'll discuss this game soon on his Three Moves Ahead podcast.

Most of the reviews I've seen are very positive; this is not going to be a TWR2 style release fiasco. Congratulations to WH fantasy fans -- enjoy.

[AgrippaDaRippa]

After the NDA was lifted we almost instaneuously saw good reviews and AJ on his warhammer livestream almost went as far as saying it could be only the 2nd 10/10 hes ever given and his word is respected.

Can the game keeps this steam?

[Dorkus_Malorkus]

So, strategy has been castrated, according to RPS. That sounds bad.

If it is like Warhammer Games I have played, everything will be about levelling up.

[r3dshift]

If it is like Warhammer Games I have played, everything will be about levelling up.

It certainly seems so. Which I wouldn't mind per se, but stripping the strategy elements down to such a bare-bones state was a very bad decision.

[anduril38]

Rome 2 got good reviews at first, and we all know what happened there.

I'm liking that Warhammer seems more solid at launch, but I'd wait a week or two to see the full overview.

[Nth]

Been a while since a Total War game has had this positive of a reception on release. Currently sitting at a 86% on metacritic.