Warcraft Total War is a total conversion mod for Medieval II Total War. Our goal is to bring the Warcraft universe into a Total War game. This mod will feature epic battles with units from the Warcraft universe and a new campaign that will cover the events of the Third War and beyond.
The game has nice looking models, no question about it, but the campaign is so poorly done, that at points you have to wonder whether it was intentionally neglected. This is without comparison, the worst Med 2 mod when it comes to balance. I guess it might be fun if you are going for multiplayer only and the mods seem to have invested a lot of time into making so many different models, which is the sole reason why I haven't given a worse score.
The map is very poor quality (speaking as an experienced Mapper) and the UI poorly implemented in places, while some strat_models could use work, but the units are its saving grace; both interesting and varied, if not suffering from scaling issues and odd skeletal animations in places, the units are still interesting. I'd say the mod needs work and would critically benefit from a new campaign map Asap.
Worth a download, but stands to improve in a number of areas.
Public Beta v 1.9 review:
The positive:
+ Good and some awsome modeles
+ Nice effects and settelments
+ Large roster of units
The negative:
- Bad campaign (no buldings and no economie frome the start)
- Having a huge armie/armies at the start break the momentume of having to build an economie or working up to the hier tier units
- The AI spam a lot of armies (I know in the base game the AI cheats but still should work on it)
Conclusion:
This mod has a lot of potential but need to work on the campaign as the main focus, hope the mod devs listen to my humble feedback also a big thanks for working and making this mod.
Respect.
super fun and gives me a ton of nostalgia just needs some extra unit text and unit modeling
Great looking units, great variety, terrible balance in stats, and the campaign map and experience is a mess. Hopefully they"ll focus more on refining what's already made rather than adding new stuff that gives the feel that the mod is patchworked. Currently mostly fun to play custom battles. If only the mod leader was less intolerant on feedback and less phlegmatic in his responses the mod could further itself greatly with much more enthusiasm and support from the community.
Great mod love the unit models.
Excellent mod, it provides a very strong WC3 feeling !
I don't think it's a 10/10 yet, but I have confidence the modders will get there eventually.
Some of the complaints I read do make some sense, which I think is mainly the result of the creators' methodology.
Personally, I think they could've made a more polished experience if they were willing to do one continent at a time and get it done instead of everything at once.
There's also the issue of models. The custom ones are amazing, but they undoubtedly required a lot of time and effort. A lot of other mods simply rework the default med2 models, which could probably have been done a bit more here.
All in all, I enjoy it and I'm more than willing to stick with the more polished factions until the rest are done.