It’s no exaggeration to say that long-time Total War fans have been looking forward to this release almost as much - if not more - than the actual Warhammer games, because the sheer scale and number of options available to players would (sorry) dwarf that of previous campaigns. Even after the technical implementations are done, there are still bugs to find and fix, as well as a significant amount of playtesting to ensure that (as an example) one race isn’t ridiculously under- or over-powered or that each race’s unique features and mechanics are working as intended.
Now, taking big chunks of content, data, and code from one game and porting them into another is always a challenge - speaking from experience in this regard - and takes a significant amount of time and tailoring to get all the pieces to play nice with each other and work properly. In order to create the game mode, the development team had to collect and combine the content, features, mechanics, systems, and code from three different codebases into a single mega-campaign. It has taken a lot of work, as Creative Assembly explained a few months back: Every faction, every continent, every city and every special character combined into something called Immortal Empires. All three games, with their already-huge maps, smooshed together into the one experience. This moment.įrom the earliest days of the agreement Creative Assembly had promised that, when the planned trilogy of standalone games had been completed, players would be able to take part in a campaign that encompassed the entire world of Total War: Warhammer.
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Across three full games and multiple expansions, and all the work and acclaim that has come with them, that deal has been slowly building towards a single moment. Ten years ago Total War developers Creative Assembly announced a licensing deal that would see the historical strategy game developers take on, for the first time ever, a fictional setting: the fantasy Warhammer universe.
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