Everything Announced at Creative Assembly's Total War 25th Anniversary Showcase

Creative Assembly’s Total War 25th day showcase featured a fig of large announcements successful the strategy series, including a marque caller game, a important update to an existing game, and the tease of a caller crippled announcement astatine The Game Awards.

Total War: Medieval 3 announced

First up, Creative Assembly announced Total War: Medieval 3, the long-awaited instrumentality to the franchise’s humanities roots, with a live-action uncover trailer. Here’s the authoritative blurb:

Now successful aboriginal pre-production, this adjacent section is some a tribute to its legendary predecessors and a bold gyration for the series. Built arsenic the eventual medieval strategy sandbox, it volition empower players to signifier realms, rewrite history, and immerse themselves successful the Middle Ages similar ne'er before. Combining meticulous humanities authenticity with unprecedented subordinate agency, this is much than a sequel, it’s the rebirth of humanities Total War.

Total War: Warhammer 3 - Lords of the End Times announced

Next came Total War: Warhammer 3 - Lords of the End Times, which coincides with the subseries’ 10th year. The Lords of The End Times Pack adds 4 caller Legendary Lords into the Immortal Empires run acquisition successful summertime 2026. The archetypal to beryllium revealed is the large necromancer, Nagash, who returns to reclaim his mislaid powerfulness and drown the satellite successful undeath. These caller lords besides herald the accomplishment of the escaped End Times Update. Here’s the authoritative blurb:

Taking inspiration from the lore, players volition look a run acquisition transformed, with apocalyptic scenarios and cataclysmic events that propulsion the boundaries of strategy and survival. And to crown this update, a caller Legendary Lord volition rise, acceptable to permission their people connected the cataclysm to come.

Creative Assembly ended the announcement by saying there’s much to travel from Total War: Warhammer, insisting “the bid is acold from over.”

The Warcore crippled motor to bring Total War to consoles

Next up was the announcement of the Warcore crippled engine, the latest mentation of Creative Assembly's ain tech which allows for aboriginal Total War games to motorboat connected console. Here’s what Creative Assembly had to say:

Building connected 25 years of strategy innovation, Warcore is the adjacent improvement of Total War’s proprietary engine. As the astir precocious technological instauration successful the franchise’s history, it empowers developers with a suite of tools that allows for gameplay to beryllium much immersive, dynamic and responsive than ever before. Designed to germinate implicit time, it volition proceed to unlock caller capabilities, ensuring the franchise stays astatine the cutting borderline of strategy gaming for years to come. In a franchise first, it besides enables aboriginal games to beryllium released connected PlayStation and Xbox, welcoming a caller procreation of commanders to the scale, immersion, and tactical mastery that defines Total War.

'Surprise' Total War crippled acceptable for The Game Awards

The showcase ended with a tease for The Game Awards connected December 11, erstwhile a “surprise” 3rd crippled volition beryllium revealed. “This rubric volition beryllium Total War’s adjacent large merchandise and represents 1 of the astir ambitious projects successful the franchise’s history, marking the opening of an breathtaking caller era,” Creative Assembly said. “We anticipation to spot you there.”

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