Sega and Creative Assembly have decided to delay their latest installment of the Total War series, Three Kingdoms. The title won't launch this fall, and now is scheduled to release in the first half of 2019. The studio will set the next Total War to China, as Three Kingdoms will give you a chance to fight for the supremacy in the Middle Kingdom and meet famous historical figures like Cao Cao and Lü Bu.
The special E3 gameplay trailers focus on the cunning strategic mastermind, Cao Cao and the real-time gameplay. Cao Cao was one of the central figures of the Three Kingdoms period (the tripartite division of China between the states of Wei, Shu, and Wu). He was a Chinese warlord and the penultimate Chancellor of the Eastern Han dynasty who rose to great power in the final years of the dynasty.
Cao Cao is a Strategist, which grants various active and passive buffs for your units. The gameplay trailer showcases his natural abilities during a siege and the battle of Xiapi between the forces of another prominent warlord Lü Bu against the allied armies of Cao Cao and Liu Bei from the winter of 198 to 7 February 199. It's really important to add that the game is strongly Influenced by Luo Guanzhong’s 14th century historical epic Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Take a look:
The year is 190CE. China is in turmoil. The Han Dynasty crumbles before the child-emperor. He is but a figurehead, a mere puppet for the tyrant warlord Dong Zhuo. It is a brutal and oppressive regime, and as Dong Zhuo’s power grows, the empire slips further into the cauldron of anarchy.
Total War: Three Kingdoms is scheduled to release next spring exclusively on PC.