Creative Assembly has finally nailed boss battles in Total War
It’s hard to be too cynical about the climactic battles that conclude many of Total War: Warhammer II’s campaigns. If a line of rotten shipwreck-automata blasting arm-cannons at spiky Dark Elves while a giant fish swims around your underwater battlefield doesn’t make you smile, then you’re as heartless as they are.
But these battles are also a mechanical fudge. 20 units with fixed health and vigour have a natural lifespan, and while the healing superpowers you often get to wield go some way to extending it, they’re an inelegant, partial solution. Playing one of Total War: Warhammer III’s new survival battles has made this clear to me. Pitched by CA as the game’s ‘boss fights’, survival battles crib from tower defence games to create 40-minute spectacles that, on this evidence at least, fully deliver on what the devs intend.
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As we all eagerly await the premiere of the
Loki TV show on Disney+, now is the perfect time to take a step back and look at all of the times Tom Hiddleston appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. From 2011âs
Thor all the way to 2019âs
Avengers: Endgame, thereâs a great deal to cover in terms of Loki in the Marvel movies. In the past decade weâve watched the adopted son of Odin play the role of jealous sibling to Thor, the harbinger of death for Thanos, and a reluctant anti-hero, and finally start new adventures in
Avengers: Endgame and leading up to Disney+ s
Loki.
Ever since he first appeared in 2011 s
Thor, Tom Hiddleston s Loki has been a favorite among fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
On more than a few occasions, it s seemed like the character of Loki was dead for good. But Hiddleston will soon star in a Disney+ series called
Loki.
Is Loki dead? Is Loki alive? We talk through it all in the story below.
Most of the fan favorite, recurring heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Ant-Man, Falcon, the list goes on tend to share a common quality: they re good guys. Which is why Loki, the God of Mischief played several times by Tom Hiddleston in the