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Ready your spears and saddle your horses, the THREE KINGDOMS pre-load is almost here…

You’ll be able to pre-load THREE KINGDOMS from 6PM BST today.

Check out the full details as well as our post-launch plans in our latest blog here: https://www.totalwar.com/blog/business-practices-blog-three-kingdoms-post-launch-and-whats-next

Not sure what time that is for you? Click here to find out: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Three+Kingdoms+Pre-load&iso=20190520T18&p1=136
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Our former John (RPS in peace) has vanished in odd circumstances, last heard claiming he’ll be flying through the sky in a big metal snake, so I’m taking over this week. Not even an employee anymore and he’s still making work for me.

Join me for a stroll down the hit parade to inspect last week’s top-selling games on Steam.

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The reviews are out for Total War: THREE KINGDOMS and we’ve rounded up a selection of them here for you.

Rock Paper Shotgun said “Three Kingdoms is the best historical strategy game in a very long series, and the most dramatic and personal.” Click here to read the whole thing: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/05/16/total-war-three-kingdoms-review/

And Eurogamer have said “Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is bureaucratic, obscure, dense and wickedly Machiavellian if you have the appetite for it - but so was China in 190 CE, and I have genuine, sincere admiration for the way in which it's been captured.” Read the entire article here: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-05-16-total-war-three-kingdoms-review-can-a-game-have-too-many-big-ideas

If Youtube is more your jam, there’s a video here from PartyElite called Total War: Three Kingdoms Review – Should you Pursue? Click here to view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BAuFniLODo

And finally, here’s Janet On Occasion with 30 Great Things About 3K – Total War: THREE KINGDOMS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84IfjC9DyZ4

There’s lots more out there – let us know your favourites in the comments!
May 17, 2019
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To round out the Yellow Turban trio, let us introduce you to the Master of the Land, Gong Du: https://www.totalwar.com/blog/total-war:-three-kingdoms-warlord-legends-gong-du/
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Let me just say this: I am an absolute sucker for a big idea. A grand philosophy, or some big unifying theory of everything, that seeps under the skin and wraps around the bones of a game to tie it all together. Everything refers back to something else and informs it, all the dangling threads of design brought tidily back in line. Bliss. I love it. Very neat, very satisfying, very, very difficult to pull off.

Total War: Three Kingdoms is absolutely swimming in big ideas - plural - to its detriment and its strength, which is probably inevitable given the deeply, intrinsically philosophical era in which it's set. Three Kingdoms China starts with the fall of the Han Dynasty, around the late 100s to early 200s CE, and predictably it's a time of fractured alliances and political upheaval - so far so Total War. But it's also a time of mystery, and mythology, and romance, all intertwined with other capital-letter ideas like Confucianism and Wu Xing and Guanxi to make a big, slightly headache-inducing but vastly ambitious soup of design.

The one at the heart of it, though, is that trade-off, between a commitment to accuracy and the romanticised telling of the story that people are more likely to know. Creative Assembly has beaten the drum of Records-versus-Romance half to death by now but, if you weren't already aware, they're essentially two accounts of the period that can be reduced down to two books, Records of the Three Kingdoms and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and the developer has - correctly - relied heavily on both.

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A hero rises as a nation crumbles. With Han dynasty blood flowing through his veins and a heart that beats only for the good of his country, Liu Bei stands unwavering against incredible odds. His foes have more money, more troops, more weapons, and more land. But Liu Bei? He has the people…

Watch the full trailer here: https://youtu.be/4UhSsPhIpqM

THREE KINGDOMS is released in one week! Take a look at the Steam page for more info: https://store.steampowered.com/app/779340/
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My eldest son died horribly at the Battle of Yangzhou in 198 CE. Cao Ang led a small retinue in General Xiahou Yuan s army. Xiahou s army was the best I had: disciplined troops, carefully selected and commanded by heroes. At Yangzhou they were mauled by a massive army of peasant rebels led by the Yellow Turban He Yi. My defeated army escaped, but He Yi challenged Cao Ang to a duel and personally killed my son. Though my son was not a great commander or, obviously, duelist, his death is a tragedy for my whole faction. Cao Ang commanded a third of the defeated army, and without a substitute general his retinue will disband. The only candidate has no military experience and has never left court: Lady Bian, the boy’s mother. She assumes command in tragic, desperate circumstances; in 201 CE she will march back to Yangzhou to duel the rebel who killed her son and become my greatest general.

Total War: Three Kingdoms is a historical strategy game set during China’s Three Kingdoms period. The campaign is divided into two layers: players build towns, recruit soldiers, declare war and move armies across a map of China each turn. When two opposing armies fight, players command units in real time. You’re a warlord in a shattered kingdom, and every campaign begins with the same instruction: China must be united.

Three Kingdoms is the best historical strategy game in a very long series, and certainly the most dramatic and personal.

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May 16, 2019
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Introducing He Yi, the Leader of the People.

Find out about the Warlord Legend here: https://www.totalwar.com/blog/total-war-three-kingdoms-warlord-legends-he-yi/
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It’s time for the Yellow Turban Rebellion to take over Warlord Legends!

Today, meet Huang Shao – the Wielder of the Heavenly Way: https://www.totalwar.com/blog/total-war-three-kingdoms-warlord-legends-huang-shao/
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Leader of the people He Yi forges an empire from his grassroots rebellion. Can his forces bring down the corrupt warlords that hold China in their iron grip?

Find out in our Yellow Turbans gameplay reveal here: https://youtu.be/t68lVxWbkyM

The countdown is on… just over a week to go until THREE KINGDOMS is released and you can forge your own dynasty. If you pre-order the game or purchase it in the first week, you’ll receive the Yellow Turbans for free.

Which warlord will Yu play as first?
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