Total War: Warhammer II
Total War: Warhammer II is a strategy game of titanic proportions. Choose from four unique, varied factions and wage war your way; mounting a campaign of conquest to save or destroy a vast and vivid fantasy…
Total War: Warhammer II is a real time strategy (rts) developed by The Creative Assembly, released 28 September 2017 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $14.99 at Humble Store.
What Total War: Warhammer II is
Total War: Warhammer II is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by The Creative Assembly and released in 2017. It was published by Sega. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on TW Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
"Millennia ago, besieged by a Chaos invasion, a conclave of High Elf mages forged a vast, arcane vortex. Its purpose was to draw the Winds of Magic from the world as a sinkhole drains an ocean, and blast the Daemonic hordes back to the Realm of Chaos. Now the Great Vortex falters, and the world again stands at the brink of ruin. Powerful forces move to heal the maelstrom and avert catastrophe. Yet others seek to harness its terrible energies for their own bitter purpose. The race is on, and the very fate of the world will lie in the hands of the victor. Prince Tyrion, Defender of Ulthuan, guides the High Elves in their desperate efforts to stabilise the vortex as it roils above their home…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 152 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Warhammer series
Total War: Warhammer II is the 55th of 95 entries we hold in the Warhammer series. The next entry was Total War: Warhammer II - Serpent God Edition in 2017. Its critic score of 88 is 23 points above the series average of 65. The highest-rated entry is Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning at 90.
How it was received
Total War: Warhammer II holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 91% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 17 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 85, across 114 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 3.0Ghz, 5 GB RAM and NVIDIA GTX 460 1GB | AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB | Intel HD4000 @720p. An 5GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 60GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $14.99 at Humble Store, 75% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Total War: Warhammer II launched on 28 September 2017, within three weeks of Cuphead, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Middle-earth: Shadow of War and Divinity: Original Sin 2. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Cuphead, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, Divinity: Original Sin 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Total War: Warhammer II yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Screenshots
All media
Dlc
Total War: Warhammer II - Tretch Craventail
Total War: Warhammer II - Mortal Empires
Total War: Warhammer II - Blood for the Blood God II
Total War: Warhammer II - Rise of the Tomb Kings
Total War: Warhammer II: Steps of Isha
Total War: Warhammer II - Alith Anar
Total War: Warhammer II - The Queen & The Crone
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Total War: Warhammer II - Curse of the Vampire Coast
Total War: Warhammer II - Lokhir Fellheart
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Total War: Warhammer II - The Prophet & The Warlock
Total War: Warhammer II - Tiktaq'to
Total War: Warhammer II - Gor-Rok
Total War: Warhammer II - The Hunter & The Beast
Total War: Warhammer II - Repanse de Lyonesse
Total War: Warhammer II - The Shadow & The Blade
Total War: Warhammer II - Imrik
Total War: Warhammer II - The Warden & The Paunch
Total War: Warhammer II - The Twisted & The Twilight
Total War: Warhammer II - Rakarth
Total War: Warhammer II - The Silence & The Fury
Total War: Warhammer II - Thorek Ironbrow
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