When comparing Trine vs Total War: Warhammer, the Slant community recommends Trine for most people. In the question“What are the best Fantasy games on Steam?” Trine is ranked 17th while Total War: Warhammer is ranked 30th. The most important reason people chose Trine is:
Each playable character has their own abilities and features that you must use in order to solve puzzles, platform, and battle to beat each level. You will be switching back and forth throughout the game in order to progress, which can be fun when trying to figure out how to utilize each characters skills.
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Pros
Pro Challenging and fun puzzle platforming that uses an interesting character switch mechanic
Each playable character has their own abilities and features that you must use in order to solve puzzles, platform, and battle to beat each level. You will be switching back and forth throughout the game in order to progress, which can be fun when trying to figure out how to utilize each characters skills.
Pro Appealing graphics reminiscent of vibrant cartoons shows off a very individualistic design
The graphics are 3d rendered with vibrant colors. They utilize pleasing cartoon like graphics, which give a real sense of the fantasy world they are meant to illustrate. Everything about the design of the characters and world stand out as highly polished and breathtaking.
Pro Fun local co-op that lends itelf well to the chracter switch design of the gameplay
Trine has support for up to 3 player local co-op, which works very well with the way the mechanics of the game demand use of each character throughout each stage.
Pro Gives players the ability to customize their generals and heroes
TW:W gives players the chance to customize the abilities of their chosen legendary lord, generals and even heroes through a detailed skill tree. Skills vary from individual character skills usable in battles (such as spells) to passive skills which influence army movement in the campaign map.
Pro Great setting
Being based around the Warhammer tabletop fantasy world allows for an in depth game with tons lore behind it. Fighting off vampires and zombies are just some of the things to be found in the game.
Pro Tons of replayability
Thanks to the different factions available in the game, the player has a lot of choice as to how they would like to play, which gives a lot of replayability. There are five different campaigns available (four in the game and one as DLC) that each has its own faction to control and set story, which will take quite a bit of time to each be experience to their complete endings.
Cons
Con Rather little variation in combat/gameplay
After you've fought your first fight, you've practically seen them all. There are no real boss fights like in Trine 2, the only distinction is made between shooty-wights and stabby-wights.
Con Co-op not as good as single player
Though there is support for local co-op, the game feels as though it works best as a single player title. This can be limiting to those that are only going to play single player.
Con Only four factions are available in the base game
There are only four factions are available without DLCs (The Empire, Vampire Counts, Greenskins and Dwarfes). Other playable races and factions are currently being released periodically as DLCs.
Con Maps can feel constrained
Due to the compartmentalizing of factions and which land they can take over means that the games maps can feel smaller than they appear since only certain sections can be played on.