Total War: Warhammer II

Total War: Warhammer II
Studio	Creative assembly
Publisher	Sega
Erstveröffent- lichung	Windows September 28, 2017 Linux & macOS November 20, 2018
platform	Microsoft Windows , Linux , mac OS
Game engine	TW Engine 3 (Warscape Engine)
genre	Combination of real-time strategy game and turn-based strategy game
Subject	Warhammer Fantasy
Game mode	Single player , multiplayer
control	Mouse , keyboard
system advantages preconditions	OS: Windows 7 64 bit Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 3 GHz Graphics card: NVIDIA GTX 460 1 GB or AMD Radeon HD 5770 1 GB or Intel HD4000 RAM: 5 GB RAM , 60 GB hard disk space
medium	DVD-ROM , download
language	English , German , French , Italian , Spanish
Age rating	USK PEGI

Total War: Warhammer II is the eleventh part of the computer strategy game series Total War and the successor to Total War: Warhammer by the British developer studio Creative Assembly . The game was released on September 28, 2017 for Microsoft Windows . On November 20, 2018, Feral Interactive released the game for Mac OS and Linux .

action

With the second part of the series, the game world is expanded to include the high elves , dark elves , lizard people and skaven . The setting is the "New World", consisting of the continents Naggaroth , the icy home of the dark elves, in the north and Lustria , the large land mass dominated by hot jungles and home of the lizard people, in the south. There are also between the " old location" and "New World", ring-shaped island continent of Ulthuan , the realm of the High Elves, and covered with deserts and tropical continent Southlands , south of the "Old World". In the new areas, in addition to the four new factions, there are also colonies and empires of the peoples already appearing in the first part.

In Total War: Warhammer II is all about the struggle over the control of the "Great Maelstrom." He draws the magic of the world in the form of a powerful vortex from the entire world and focuses it in the center of the high elf island kingdom of Ulthuan . Due to the existence of the Maelstrom, Chaos Demons can only exist for a short time away from the Warp Gates, and the Chaos is prevented from overwhelming the entire Warhammer world.

Gameplay

As in the predecessor, each race or faction has its own game mechanics . What is new is that it is now possible to take all provinces regardless of faction. For this purpose, a new climate zone game mechanics has been implemented, which assigns advantages and disadvantages to the factions when settling different types of terrain.

The aim of the game is to control the "Great Maelstrom". The maelstrom can be controlled by means of rites, which are purchased and unlocked with resource points. When a ritual has been initiated, the three most important cities are connected to the Maelstrom by the respective faction and have to defend themselves against armies of chaos for several rounds . You can also interrupt the rituals of the enemy factions by conquering their ritual sites, i.e. their most important cities. For this, the player can also recruit AI- controlled "intervention forces" and send them against the enemy. As a last resort, if a faction has beaten the player by completing all rites, he can teleport an army to a final battle to thwart its victory.

The ritual victory condition can not be deactivated in the campaign in the game settings, but the player can optionally achieve a supremacy victory by defeating all archenemy factions and controlling 50 provinces with his armed forces, allies and vassals.

Ratings

• GameStar : 85% fun
• PC Games : 90% fun
• Metacritic : 86/100

Extensions

Downloadable content ( DLC ) for Total War: Warhammer II :

Realms of mortals

On 26 October 2017, the DLC appeared realm of mortals ( Mortal Empires ), the owners of Warhammer: Total War and Total War: Warhammer II adds a major new campaign. In Mortal Empires all races and factions from both parts can be played on a - due to the flow of the game - compressed and slightly modified Warhammer world map on which the "old" and the "new world" have been merged. The maelstrom campaign from the second part is replaced by a short or long conquest campaign.

Blood for the Blood God II

Blood for the Blood God II ( blood for the blood god II ) is a Gore -DLC and appeared on 26 October 2017th

Rise of the Tomb Kings

On January 23, 2018, Rise of the Tomb Kings was released , expanding the Maelstrom and Mortal Empires campaign to include the Tomb Kings of Khemri and his undead armies.

The Queen & The Crone

On May 31, 2018, The Queen & The Crone was released , which brings two new commanders and new units for high and dark elves into play.

Curse of the Vampire Coast

On November 8, 2018, Curse of the Vampire Coast was released , which brings the faction of the Vampire Coast with four commanders into play for both campaigns.

The Prophet & The Warlock

On 17 April 2019 appeared The Prophet & The Warlock ( The Prophet and the Warlock ), which brings together two commanders and new units for Echsenmenschen and Skaven into play.

The Hunter and The Beast

On September 11, 2019 was published The Hunter and The Beast ( the hunter and the monster ), which brings together two commanders and new units for Empire and Echsenmenschen into play.

The Shadow & The Blade

On 12 December 2019 published The Shadow and The Blade ( the shadow and the blade ), which introduces two new commanders for Skaven and Dark Elves into play.

The Warden & the Paunch

On May 21, 2020, The Warden & the Paunch ( the Guardian and the Fatty ) was released, which brings two new commanders for high elves and greenskins into play.

continuation

Another sequel is planned with Total War: Warhammer III , with Total War: Warhammer and Total War: Warhammer II representing the first two parts. The sequel will expand the campaign maps of the first two parts to include more land masses, races and factions from the Warhammer world. The aim of the developers is to integrate all 15 major factions of the eighth edition of the tabletop template Warhammer Fantasy from Games Workshop into the game.

Web links

• Official website
• Total War: Warhammer II on Steam
• Total War: Warhammer II at MobyGames (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Total War: Warhammer II" published for Linux and Mac OS X - Pro-Linux . In: Pro-Linux . ( pro-linux.de [accessed on November 28, 2018]).
2. ↑ Rating of the GameStar
3. ↑ Rating of PC Games
4. ↑ Rating by Metacritic