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This is soon going to say "Refunded".

Game was advertised as a "Lite" simulator. What it really is, is an arcade game. Stick with UBoat or if you just have to play as an American get Silent Hunter IV, Wolves of the Pacific. The graphics on SH4 are not that far below what this game provides anyhow.

At some point in the last couple years, someone higher up came along, grabbed the yoke for this series and just nose dived it into the closest mountain.

Creative Assembly refuses to create a custodian team to maintain the game and just focus on bugs and small improvements. Instead they've decided to go the Paradox route and tie bug fixes to overpriced DLCs. We're even talking about minor problems being fixed, they're also not fixing patches that outright break parts of the game. There is a faction leader who is a big crocodile guy, his whole gimmick is running around with other big crocodile men. Guess what he cannot recruit because of a serious bug? That's right, the big crocodile men. Know who managed to fix that in just a few minutes? Modders.

Recently there was backlash because Creative Assembly decided to increase the prices of new DLCs by a substantial amount. Creative Assembly's response to that was basically threatening that if the community didn't buy the overpriced DLC, then Creative Assembly would not only stop making new overpriced DLC, but they would also no longer fix bugs.

So here we are. A lot of people who love this series, who love this game, are giving it negative reviews because honeslty I (we) cannot recommend someone buy this game knowing how Creative Assembly went from being community friendly to bending us over a barrel and letting a horse have its way with us.

770+ hours into this game. That should say it all really.

TLDR: I wholeheartedly recommend this game

Longer review:
Graphics, sound, and all of those things are great, but those aren't what sets this game apart. What sets it apart is the world in which you play in. Because of the variety of races and factions within those races, the world feel alive. The world map itself is extremely detailed, and even after this many hours I still stumble across things I hadn't noticed in the past.

This game has the largest diversity of races, factions, units, and etc* of any game I've played. The base game of Warhammer 2 is enjoyable in and of itself. As you add in the DLC factions as well as Warhammer 1 and it's DLCs it becomes a masterpiece. If the third game keeps up with or exceeds the standards that WH2 set for strategy games, then I don't see how Creative Assembly plans to match this series in the future.

Also, once you grow bored of the vanilla game, this game has an endless amount of mods in the workshop that can transform it greatly.

This game is a tragedy. It was the undoing of customer trust in Relic as well as the dagger that killed off the Dawn of War series.

Good bits - graphics, sound, unit variety
Mediocre - story was dull and skipped all over the place with entirely too many missions where you didn't do RTS things (build bases, build units, etc). They seemed to have seen Blizzard doing this in Starcraft 2 and decided to dial it up to 11 in DoW3.
Bad - Faction variety. There are 3. Space Marines, Orks, Eldar.
Terrible - The game is a failed attempt at making a MOBA.
-- Their plan to charge real money for skulls which would then be used to unlock other elites and other doctrines, which got scrapped after the backlash they received from fans.
-- While there is traditional base building, Relic for some reason decided to add in power cores and other objectives like that. You know, things that MOBAs have. All of their maps are symmetrical with lanes.
Also terrible - the game was quickly abandoned by Relic. After angering their fan base who gave it bad review after bad review, and quickly realizing they weren't going to attract the MOBA crowd and be the next big E-sport game, they immediately went to work trying to make the game an RTS.
They added in traditional RTS mechanics like annihilation mode, the ability to turn off army abilities, the ability to turn off elites, the ability to put down base defenses, etc, etc. Unfortunately all of these changes were made too late. The community had already left their bad review and moved on.

I recently reinstalled it to check it out again since I was in a 40k mood while waiting for Battlesector. From what I can tell the only things that changed further is they made it so you didn't have to earn skulls to unlock other elites or doctrines.

At the time of me writing this, the game is on sale for $10. I'd say it is worth that, but I wouldn't pay any more than that.

I gave this game 170+ hours and honestly really tried to like it. The game that it is now for skirmish/MP would be fun -- if there were any other people to play with. So honestly you're just buying it for the story and if you want to skirmish the AI.

I can't in good faith recommend this game. Go buy DoW 1 or 2 instead.

With 450+ hours of time spent in this game, I finally decided I should possibly write a review.

I absolutely hate it. Well, no, that's not true. I just hate how much time it eats because I'm always telling myself "Just one more turn." until I realize that blinding light coming from the window is indeed that thing people call "the sun".

Seriously though, I've played nearly all the Total War games (I missed out on Shogun 1) and Warhammer is to date the best in the series. Yes, certain aspects have been toned down and there is less economy/empire micromanagement involved in this one, but the game makes up for it in every other department.