Total War: Three Kingdoms isn’t just a well-made game, it’s the beneficiary of decades of dedicated design, and that shows throughout.Īs mentioned earlier, there’s simply no other gaming experience like Total War. My favorite thing about Total War: Three Kingdoms is the loving attention to detail in the art, music, voice acting, menus, graphics, and story. Everything about the game, including the pause screen, is a symbiotic combination of art and information. This, along with its multiplayer campaign mode, make it a game you can easily sink hundreds of hours into. And that’s saying something because its several unique characters make the single player campaign worth repeating. Your leaders and generals are huge, heroic units capable of destroying entire regiments on their own and you’ll spend a lot of your time countering and attacking the enemy’s hero units with your own while your respective platoons hack each other to shreds around them.īoth options are fun and their distinctly different feels give the game even more replayability than it already has.
It plays out more like the tales from the book the game is based on. Your leaders and generals surround themselves with bodyguards to form a complete unit on the battlefield, and you rely on superior numbers and/or tactics to defeat enemies in combat.īut Romance mode takes things in a completely different direction. Record mode plays out like previous Total War games. In keeping with its dedication to its larger-than-life source material, Three Kingdoms can be played in either Record or Romance mode. And that’s when this entry’s unique gameplay options start to make things interesting. Suddenly you’re dominating on the battlefield against weaker opponents and outfoxing stronger ones. You begin to understand your enemies’ movements well enough to counter them with maneuvers of your own. It’s hard to wrap your head around the idea of controlling hundreds or thousands of individual troops in real-time against an enemy that is always bearing down on you, trying to outflank you, and more versed than you in the game’s control scheme (must be nice to be the AI).īut eventually something magical happens: things begin to slow down and you catch on. I’ll be honest, getting into a Total War game for the first time – no matter which one you choose – has a somewhat tough learning curve.
You have to earn every inch on the battlefield. The result is a game where even the smallest victory can feel like a great achievement.
You’ll direct them, tell them where and when to strike, and watch as they live and die on your orders. Rather than mashing buttons to prove who the superior warrior is, you’ll command thousands of troops in each battle. There is no other gaming experience like playing Total War. China’s warlords spent decades battling one another on and off the field to determine who would ultimately become the realm’s one true emperor. It was a time of ambition, horror, and legendary generals whose names are still remembered with reverence to this day. Men warred openly, plotted in secrecy, and betrayed ancient allies for new opportunities.
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