Whats next, a title screen review?
A lengthy personal essay about an attract mode clip?
Can my cat get a review?
First off, yes.
Captain Waffles is a visceral tour-de-force that no fan of the genre should miss.
Secondly, you should know that Immortal Empires is, as far asTotal War: Warhammergoes,thegame mode.
Euripides nuts, more like.
The last time I took a look atTwarhammers globe-spanning megamap, it had just released in beta.
you’re able to, for example, now smash up the entire globe as Skarbrand.
Much of what I said in my initial impressions piece still rings true.
Its potential for emergent narrative, however, has naturally expanded with its scope.
It still all works shockingly well despite all this.
Theyve since been adjusted to only appear in walled minor settlements, and then only some of the time.
Im absolutely fine with it.
It was great day one, its a reasonably less annoying version of great now.
Also, I mean, have you seen that trailer up there?
For context, I currently have a combined 1542.2 hours in games two and three.
Getting obsessed with games for long periods of time does not come naturally to me.
I once almost failed a very expensive ESL course because I couldnt stop playing XCOM 2.
I rarely make it past 100 hours, and never to 200.
So, why this one?
Did I change my approach?
Is Total War: Warhammer even my favourite series?
No to both of these.
It is a dawn-ignoring blast to play.
Ever wanted to melt stubborn dwarven phalanxes with poison gas grenades?
you could do all of this as a single faction of a single species.
You shouldnt worry about being Warhammer fan, either.
Its also just beautiful to take in.
It is not cinematic, because cinema could never.
There are criticisms to make here.
Collecting everything will set you back multiple hundreds of pounds.
I mind not a jot, and I consider not a penny wasted.
Immortal Empires is proof that hubris is good, actually.
