Three Moves Ahead 470: Total War: Three Kingdoms

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Strategy, Games & Hobbies, War, Strategy Games, Games, War Games, Video Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2019

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

This week's show is the alternate universe version of our 2013 episode on Total War: Rome II. It was two hours of non-stop slamming that poor game - a real massacre. But here we find ourselves in 2019 with Total War: Three Kingdoms in front of us, and things are different. It's good. It's very good. The load times are short. The AI seems competent. The vibrant Three Kingdoms setting is brought to life with both a story mode and a gloriously ahistorical mode that lets the characters shine. Rob, Fraser, T.J., Rowan, and special guest Ginny Woo explore this new entry that bridges the gap between the historical Total War games their offshoot fantasy cousin.

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0:00.0	Good evening, you are all listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.
0:04.5	Tonight we have our long-suffering friend from PC Gamer up way past his bedtime, Fraser Brown.
0:10.4	Hello.
0:11.7	We also welcome freelance writer, T.J. Hafer.
0:14.5	Greetings.
0:15.9	Of course, we have GameSpeat's Director of Feline Talent Acquisition, Rowan Kaiser.
0:20.0	Hello.
0:22.2	And we also welcome for the first time here at GameSpot's Jenny Wu.
0:25.6	Jenny, welcome to the show.
0:26.8	Hey, thanks to having me on.
0:28.0	It's going to be great.
0:30.0	I hope so.
0:31.7	It might not be.
0:32.8	It's a total war show.
0:36.2	Okay, yes, there's a bit of a complicated history between that series and this podcast.
0:44.8	But, you know, all that is in the past.
0:48.6	We're in completely unknown territory here because at long last, we have gone back to ancient China with Total War III kingdoms.
1:01.3	Yes.
1:02.3	And, Jenny, let's start with you, because I think your view sort of captured from the outset, some of the things that are profoundly different about
1:13.4	this particular total war versus some others and the things it chooses to emphasize that
1:19.6	other total war games have maybe tended to ignore.
1:23.2	Mm-hmm.
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