Total War: Medieval 3 Announced as the 'Rebirth of Historical Total War,' New Total War Game to Be Revealed at The Game Awards

Creative Assembly has announced Total War: Medieval 3, the adjacent mainline crippled successful its long-running strategy series.

Unveiled astatine Creative Assembly’s 25th day showcase, Total War: Medieval 3 is simply a instrumentality to the franchise’s humanities roots, but, according to the developer, it is besides a “bold revolution.” No merchandise model was mentioned, but it sounds similar a mode disconnected arsenic Creative Assembly said the task was successful aboriginal pre-production.

“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,” Creative Assembly said. “Combining meticulous humanities authenticity with unprecedented subordinate agency, this is much than a sequel, it’s the rebirth of humanities Total War.”

Creative Assembly announced the crippled with a live-action teaser and a enactment of conception art, below.

The announcement of Total War: Medieval 3 comes alongside the uncover of the Warcore crippled engine, which Creative Assembly said is the “next evolution” 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,” Creative Assembly said.

“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.”

The Warcore motor means aboriginal Total War games tin beryllium released connected PlayStation and Xbox for the archetypal time, Creative Assembly added.

Creative Assembly besides teased a caller crippled announcement astatine The Game Awards connected December 11. This volition beryllium Total War’s “next large release” and “represents 1 of the astir ambitious projects successful the franchise’s history, marking the opening of an breathtaking caller era.”

It's a engaged clip for the Sega-owned studio, which is besides moving connected continued updates to Total War: Warhammer 3, arsenic good arsenic Alien: Isolation 2. Check retired everything announced astatine the Total War 25th Anniversary showcase close here.

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