Introduction

The Warhammer series within Total War has had a cult-following of its own. Based on the smash-hit board-game, and as a turn-based strategy game, you are in control of armies you move around the map to build and manage settlements, while AI-controlled factions do the same. When you clash with an AI-based army, the battles are in real-time. A tiny morsel of the Warhammer lore, Warhammer III follows the story of two brothers who embark on a quest to rescue an abducted Ursun, the God responsible for ending Winters and whose abduction cast their lands into an endless Winter. One of the brothers has a vision guiding them to the Chaos Wastes, a chaotic reality where the Gods of Chaos have imprisoned Ursun.

Along the way, the forces of chaos corrupt one of the brothers to kill the other, and give his skull as a token to build a bridge of skulls to cross into the Howling Citadel where Ursun is imprisoned. Chaos Prince Be'lakor then tempts the brother to usurp Ursun's power by killing him. Attempting to do so pushes him back into the material plane, where he crashes into the ground, is dying, and calls out to the Chaos Gods to save him. He is then ascended as a Chaos Prince. The story continues in the game's second chapter, the Realm of Chaos, where the Be'lakor plans to use the dying God's power to take revenge on the Chaos Gods for stripping him of his power and physical form.



Developed by Creative Assembly for Sega, Total War: Warhammer III is debuting across Windows, Linux, and macOS. It is based on the in-house Total War Engine, which has also powered the previous Total War: Warhammer title, Total War: Three Kingdoms. The game's eye-candy is designed to work with a broad range of hardware, and while as such not very intensive, it can at maxed-out settings begin to bog down most entry-mainstream discrete graphics cards at 1080p, and bring high-end ones to crawl at higher resolutions. This is due to the sheer visual scale of the game. In this review, we compare Warhammer III across a wide range of graphics cards to show you what you need for the resolution you want to play at.