TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER II

The epic fantasy wargame has grown into the best Total War.

By Fraser Brown

Despite Total War: Warhammer III coming soon (see p26), I’m still obsessed with its predecessor. After more than three years, I’m still conducting my glorious wars, wiping out empires and telling my little goblins that I love them dearly. And it’s just kept growing, transforming the already beefy game into a life-consuming behemoth. It’s magic. With the first Warhammer, and the historical Total Wars, Creative Assembly created lots of mini-campaigns, but for Warhammer II the studio adopted a different approach. After introducing two new races, the Tomb Kings and the Vampire Coast, it focused solely on fleshing out its existing ones with new lords, as well as bringing races from the previous game into the Vortex campaign. This has left Warhammer II feeling absolutely massive, but not bloated. The arrival…

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PC Gamer United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2021

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