The Lord of the Rings: Conquest (Xbox 360, 2009)

I LOVE the LOTR movie trilogy, and LOTR Battle For Middle Earth 2 for Xbox 360, but I was kinda disappointed with the game.. There's a delay between fighting, where if you do a fight combo, it waits a second or two between the end of the combo and the next move you can do, and its hard to turn after a fighting combo so you can fight someone else. The Artificial intelligence is lacking, the camera makes it so you can't always see what's going on, and while fighting with the heros is cool, the game play is just lacking..Online is kinda cool but I actually like BFME 2 much better..Overall its an ok to good game, but with all of the hype around the game I was expecting a lot more.

LOTR Conquest Review

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Gameplay: Sp:(7/10) / Mp:(8/10)
Singleplayer: 7/10
A solid campaign, but unless you start out with more than usual talent, you'll probably want to start out on the casual difficulty. Inexperienced players will likely be frustrated by the higher difficulties if they try them on their first time through
MultiPlayer: 8/10
Overall similar gameplay to Pandemic's previous work in Star Wars: Battlefront, but with swords, bows, and fire in place of futuristic firearms. Upgrades similar to those in SW: Battlefront 2 would have gone a long way in favor of rebalancing the classes. Somehow, despite having the most health and speed, the warrior feels underpowered. Being backstabbed by Scouts also feels extremely cheap.
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Controls: 9/10
Nothing special, nothing broken. It's fairly easy to learn the controls, though some players may find themselves button mashing occasionally. The game does not reward button mashing, however, (especially in the case of the Warrior class,) but rather rewards deliberate, well timed combos.
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Sound: 6.5/10
The dialoge will make you crawl on the floor; you won't find more corn on primetime television. The music is taken straight from the films, which is good. Sound effects, such as sword clashes and arrows are excellent, but again, the auditory experience is better if you just plain mute the voices.
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Story: 7.5/10
Again, like the music, the (first) storyline is based off of the movies, which got their story from Tolkien's masterwork. The second story picks up at Mount Doom using the chilling idea of the One Ring's survival and Sauron's subsequent campaign to dominate Middle Earth.
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Graphics: 8.5/10 (unless the graphics of a game are either superlatively terrible or unspeakably fantastic, I do not average this score into the overall total)
Decent graphics. The worst animation I can think of would be the clouds from archer's poison arrows, they look pretty badly pixellated. Fire may now look realistic, but it does look cool.
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Overall: 7.5/10
Despite the class imbalances and painfully cheesy lines, I still like this game. Perhaps it's partly nostalgia from SW: Battlefront and LOTR: ROTK. In sum, this may not be the game for everyone, but it's worth giving a shot.
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Review system numbers:
1- Terrible: This should have never been done.
2- Bad: Nothing here worth glancing at, broken, or nearly so.
3- Poor: Some value here, but very, little, not really deserving of attention.
4- Acceptable: Good for an hour or two- if you're bored. Really bored.
5- Average: Run-of-the-mill, perhaps even solid, but nothing particularly new or creative.
6- Decent:, Again, fairly common. perhaps a few ingenuitive elements
7- Good: Overall solid, well made and enjoyable. Possibly some flaws, maybe irritating at times, but they don't ruin the experience.
8- Great: Above average. A solid, well executed title. Usually several creative elements.
9- Excellent: Wonderful, plenty of variety, well polished, with only a few minor flaws, if any.
10- Perfect: A magnificent triumph in both execution and ingenuity. Definitely worth looking into.

I was so pumped for this game when it came out because the demo was so fun. But when i had the game it was the worst game EVER!! The campaign took me 2 hours to beat, gameplay is repetitive and only as good as the demo, and my disk was broken and player 4's screen would always be screwed up. I sold this game to ebgames 1 week after i had it. It not worth it to even buy for 5 dollars DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY!!!!!!

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this game is awesome. the open world of lord of the rings is done right and the battles are just epic.

I love this game ive always liked the lotr series that theyv come out with but when i heard that the ppl that made star wars battlefront also made this game it jus told me instantly i had to get it it is awesome in my mind though it has a shirt campaign this game is awesome for playing online. Highly recommended.

The game play itself isn't bad. But I had expected this to be a LOTR type version of Star Wars Battlefront. It is not. You have a set amount of lives, there is no capturing areas aside from doing it for mission objectives. There is nothing like a galactic conquest mode, and even the single player instant action is all death match, and capture the "ring" stuff. Huge Let down. Trust me- you will want to rent this game so you can be sure before you dump $50 into something with little replay value after you've finished the campaign. Renting is definitely something i wish i had done.

This is a great game. The instant action could be a little bit better but it's still really fun. The online is pretty fun but the story mode is the best. It's rather in depth and you can play as good or evil and you can take over Middle Earth as evil and see what happens if Sauron gets the Ring. It's a great game especially for 2 players.

I got this game bc i was playing the demo with my friends on xbox live bc we were bord right. Well i was like LOTR its got to be a gay game or made for little kids or something like that. I was playing the game with my friends and thought this is not a bad game at all. I been playing it for about a week now and i realy like it. I got 1000 gamer score in one day with it so if u want a easy 1000 more points this is a game for u. Love the game.

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Bought for my 12-year old son and his almost 9 year old brother. They're big Star Wars Battlefront II fans and this game seems to be of the same genre, except with the LOTR cast instead of Star Wars.

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I liked the demo, but the game itself got kind of old quick. It turns into more of a button-mashing game than anything else. Also, there is no possible way to defeat all the enemies so you have to run through them all to achieve the objective, which gets annoying. Controls are nice and simple and the camera is easy to adjust which helps. The game is nearly impossible to beat on heroic mode, so i beat on casual which was still kind of tough.

Originally I had hoped to play this game and platinum it. However, it is an inferior product, and I feel bad that it even bears the LOTR name. The single player campaign is dull, unimaginative and monotonous; before I finished playing through it once, I found myself bored with the game.

The cut scenes do feature Hugo Weaving’s (Lord Eldenrod) voice, but they are extremely wordy. This detracts from the game.

The online multiplayer is even worse. The graphics stink, and the world you interact with feels linear and stiff. The camera doesn’t follow you well, especially when you begin fighting enemies in corners or against walls. You cannot see what you’re doing, and guess what? You die. Enemies kill you or you fall off cliff edges you didn’t know were there.

The controls feel awkward, especially during the “super”combo moves or when your character is knocked down. If your character goes down in the middle of 2-3 enemies, it just keeps getting hit and falling down over and over until it dies. You don’t even have a chance to get up. It’s very frustrating.

The character rendering looks like bad PS2 graphics. The backgrounds are dark and, in my opinion, depressing. Why should anyone spend 60-70 hours staring at environments that make him feel blue? No thanks.

LOTR: Conquest is pretty stiff. Do yourself a favor; rent it before you buy it. There is a reason this game is on the bargain rack here and at so many stores.

This is like a modern version of the arcade classic Gauntlet. You have four character classes to choose from. Archer, Knight, Mage and Scout. They each have strengths and weekneses. If you have ever played Star Wars Battlefront, this plays a lot like it. As it should, its made by the same developer Pandemic. I'm not the hack and slash type so I don't find much enjoyment playing by myself, but the splitscreen action in Co-op mode makes it pretty intense. It alows for strategy such as a knight protecting a mage, or an archer raining down firey death from above to protect a scout.

Overall I would say its a good game.

It's a good game. If you like Star Wars Battlefront, you will like this also. It has the same feel. Graphics are good but the sound is kind of cheezy.

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