Warlord Cao Cao in Total War: Three Kingdoms.
Warlord Cao Cao in Total War: Three Kingdoms.
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How Total War: Three Kingdoms balances historical accuracy and cultural authenticity

The next stop in Total War’s journey through the ages is ancient China, with a “romanticized history” game Total War: Three Kingdoms.

Sega’s Creative Assembly studio has a lot of loyal fans for its Total War series of historical real-time strategy games. But after 18 years, Creative Assembly is shaking things up for those fans. It branched into fiction and fantasy with the Total War: Warhammer games, and now it it is moving beyond pure history with the romance and mythology based on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

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