Formulate brilliant winning tactics on the battlefield, but don’t forget about your diplomatic status with your opponents in this complex strategy game.

Featured in its cast are various heroes that can make or break your campaign. Total War: Three Kingdoms is another addition to this series, and this time, the eponymous total war is set in ancient China. This success is not exactly difficult to understand as the games in the Total War franchise are usually very high in quality and enjoyable. Since the first Total War game set in feudal Japan, Creative Assembly's great strategy game franchise has continued in its amazing success. It's been four years, and although it might be showing its age, there's still the great scope, smart AI and excellent music that'll potentially keep you interested until the sequel arrives.Softonic review A Total War game bursting with personality It's not a game to fritter away an hour -expect to dedicate weeks and months. Like Hearts Of Iron II, it has a hardcore edge - there's an enormous number of realistic influences, battles can be hectic, and if you don't maintain good tactics, you'll find your men breathlessly dead. The game jigsaws the turn-based strategy and large-scale troop management of the world map with the 'oh-my-lord-look-at-that' element of thousands of troops running around in a real-time 3D war sim. And in anticipation of the sequel planned for release around the end of the year, Mastertronic have brought out the original title complete with the Viking Invasion expansion for a tenner. If The Gifted but goofy child is Hearts Of Iron II (see opposite), then Medieval: Total War is the nearly-as-clever but more athletic older brother who can do backflips when losing an intellectual argument.

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