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Summary: A Sadly Disappointing Game
Review: An unoriginal effort to quickly package the LOTR into a lame RTS engine. I am a big fan of Tolkien and a big fan of strategy games, and this satisfies my hopes in neither of those categories.
Rating: 
Summary: Awesome for Tolkien fans, Good for beginner RTS players...
Review: But this game won't do it for experienced RTS players. For the Tolkien fans, the game gives you an overview of the history before the Fellowship of the Ring came to be. If you ever wondered what Gimli, Boromir, Aragorn, Legolas and company were up to before the Elrond's council, here you go! Gameplay is not difficult at all for players new to the RTS genre. All you need to do is point and click the good guys in the right direction and they usually know when to engage the enemy in battle and when to back off. I'm not a huge RTS fan and I was able to walk through the first couple Good missions with relative ease. More experience RTS gamers will probably like the Evil campaign better, as it is a bit more challenging. But overall this game is almost to easy to keep an experienced RTS player interested.What is really confusing to me is while it seems like the game was designed more for Tolkien fans and not PC gamers, the System Requirements want you to have a system that is more in line with a hardcore PC gamer. You must have a pretty up-to-date system and video card just to run the game. For me, the Tolkien fan, the game is fun even though it has a hard time running on my lacking computer. For more hardcore gamers, War of the Ring is probably too bland to keep you interested.
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Summary: Bash the Living Daylights Out of Some Evil Minions
Review: Bwa ha ha! Feel the wrath of Gimli paired with the mighty Gandalf and Aragorn! Fear Anduril, flame of the west! Oops, sorry, I get carryed away.
It's not hard to do with this game, though. It is incredible. The game is played in a sense of Warcraft meets Battle Realms (which was a game I always happened to like despite public opinion). It has the potential for clever strategy in combat or, if you're the bashem' up type, that works too. Point in mind is that the game is focused around battle. Finally, a war game focused around what its name suggests. Resource management is only a footnote in the game, something to keep the balance.
Sure, that sounds good enough already, but there's so much more. The two sides (yes, only two, but no big deal) of the game are good and evil, respectively the alliance and Sauron's dark forces. Two sides are good enough simply because of how much you can do with them. So much research was put into the development of the game, making sure that no pivotal characters were left out. As the alliance, the player can recruit elven archers, various dwarf units, the Riders of Rohan, and other book-specific units as well as heroes such as Aragorn, Gimli, and others. Evil is much the same with various orc and troll units available (the trolls are massive, not to mention pretty cool) as well as the evil legends such as Gollum, The Witch King, and Saruman.
Combat in the game is fast, but not frantic like it can be in other games. You have enough time to use the special abilities you worked so hard to get. A thing I liked about such unit upgrades was the fate points (a ying-yang system like in Battle Realms). You get fate points, your heroes can become more powerful. Or, if you're in a tight spot, you can cast a "fate spell", as I like to call them. This will deter your opponents in some way varying from summoning a blinding flash of light to calling forth the powerful and rather intimidating (even on a video game) Balrog.
Lord of the Rings fans will love the game if they aren't to hardcore about sticking to the book. Of course the movie and game adaptations are going to leave out some parts of the book, that's life. Even none LOTR freaks will like this game a good deal. Give it a shot, it won't let you down.
Now I'm going back to bashing the bejesus out of some of the scum of Middle-Earth, if you don't mind.
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Summary: LOTR War of the Ring - A fairly decent strategy game!
Review: Currently living in a state where "The Lord of the Rings" is in all "things" these days and having seen this one on the shelves at one of the local stores and liking the occasional pc game, I thought it would be an interesting purchase. As it so happens, this is a very interesting purchase that makes for a fun time filler being a game that is replete with much of the rich "history" that is J.R.R. Tolkien's world, although not exact mind you, but it does provide and interesting "aspect" to that world and in doing so, makes for a fun game. Overall, this is a fairly good strategy type game that is fun to play and includes some very interesting additional features such as fate points which lead you to some very interesting spells that can, at times, turn the tide in your favor! There are two sides to this game, just as in the novels; the good side and the evil side. Both of which include the familiar heroes from the novels and movies, such as Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and even brings in a character or two seen in "The Hobbit." The evil side even has Gollum and Saruman. Given that this game is of the strategy type, and the very interesting aspects of the individual unit's skills, one can use stealth at times to achieve their individual or overall goals. One can also just go full boar into battle mode with enough units and let the melee begin when attacking your opponents. Just as with many games of this type, you can gather a very large force and attack your opponent's strongholds but beware; upon doing so, maintaining command and control over your forces during such an attack just turns into a melee as your forces go wild, doing what they do best, killing and being killed! The Good Side: Weighing in for the forces of the free people of Middle Earth are the following units: Workers, Gondor Swordsmen, Dwarf Axe throwers, Dwarf Shield breakers, Riders of Rohan, Rangers, Eleven Archers, Elven Light bearers, The Beorning and The Huorn. Available heroes: Frodo Baggins, Gimli, Legolas, Aragorn and Gandalf the Grey! All of which combine to make an excellent force against the forces of Sauron! Weighing in for the forces of Sauron: Goblin Workers, Goblin Spearmen, Goblin Slave masters, Orc Bowmen, Orc Slashers, Warg Riders, Giant Spiders, Wraiths, Haradrim Slayers, Black Riders, Bone cleavers, Stone hurlers and Uruk-Hai. Available Heroes of Mordor: Gollum, Grishnakh, Salem, Lord of the Nazgul and Saruman. Overall, this is a fairly good game that should provide hours and hours of interesting and challenging entertainment whether playing either side in the War of the Ring, the battle for Middle-Earth itself. {ssintrepid}
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Summary: LOTR War of the Ring - A fairly decent strategy game!
Review: Currently living in a state where "The Lord of the Rings" is in all "things" these days and having seen this one on the shelves at one of the local stores and liking the occasional pc game, I thought it would be an interesting purchase. As it so happens, this is a very interesting purchase that makes for a fun time filler being a game that is replete with much of the rich "history" that is J.R.R. Tolkien's world, although not exact mind you, but it does provide and interesting "aspect" to that world and in doing so, makes for a fun game. Overall, this is a fairly good strategy type game that is fun to play and includes some very interesting additional features such as fate points which lead you to some very interesting spells that can, at times, turn the tide in your favor! There are two sides to this game, just as in the novels; the good side and the evil side. Both of which include the familiar heroes from the novels and movies, such as Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and even brings in a character or two seen in "The Hobbit." The evil side even has Gollum and Saruman. Given that this game is of the strategy type, and the very interesting aspects of the individual unit's skills, one can use stealth at times to achieve their individual or overall goals. One can also just go full boar into battle mode with enough units and let the melee begin when attacking your opponents. Just as with many games of this type, you can gather a very large force and attack your opponent's strongholds but beware; upon doing so, maintaining command and control over your forces during such an attack just turns into a melee as your forces go wild, doing what they do best, killing and being killed! The Good Side: Weighing in for the forces of the free people of Middle Earth are the following units: Workers, Gondor Swordsmen, Dwarf Axe throwers, Dwarf Shield breakers, Riders of Rohan, Rangers, Eleven Archers, Elven Light bearers, The Beorning and The Huorn. Available heroes: Frodo Baggins, Gimli, Legolas, Aragorn and Gandalf the Grey! All of which combine to make an excellent force against the forces of Sauron! Weighing in for the forces of Sauron: Goblin Workers, Goblin Spearmen, Goblin Slave masters, Orc Bowmen, Orc Slashers, Warg Riders, Giant Spiders, Wraiths, Haradrim Slayers, Black Riders, Bone cleavers, Stone hurlers and Uruk-Hai. Available Heroes of Mordor: Gollum, Grishnakh, Salem, Lord of the Nazgul and Saruman. Overall, this is a fairly good game that should provide hours and hours of interesting and challenging entertainment whether playing either side in the War of the Ring, the battle for Middle-Earth itself. {ssintrepid}
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Summary: War Of The Rinng
Review: For those people who rate this game bad based on the demo, then they say its a waste of money should shut up. When the demo starts it clearly says that it's a PRE-BETA version of the game and there are unfinished things in the game. On my computer the ground is completly grey, I don't know if this is because it's a beta version or if my computer just isen't good enough also. I can't really tell you how this game is because I havent played it in a while, on my computer its laggy also, but again, I don't know if its because its a beta version or because of my computer. I hope I helped you with this sort-of review.
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Summary: GREAT TOLKIEN TITLE!
Review: Great packaging! I love the good vs. evil boxes. Game was excellent...5 stars!! i highly recommend this game.
Rating: 
Summary: Disappointed
Review: Have you played two towers? Well you thought it was great right? Did you play the return of the king? Awsome? Well this game is one of the best games i've ever played based on lord of the rings.Here are some reasons why i give this game a 4 star rating:
1. If you've played etheir of the games above you know that the music is one of the things that puts you on the edge of your seat. Well let me tell you that this game has some of the most thrilling musical featurretts that I have ever heard. In the forests they have a certain type of music. In sieging castle levels [or defending] they have a perfect timed yet fast paced action beat.
2. The background. It has so much texture, it almost looks real. The trees look so good. The grass is so green. the sea looks salty blue . So you can probably imagine what the forests of this game will look like.
3.Now we talk graphics. I was a little disapointed with the graphics. Im sorry to say but my favorite charicter Legolas looks like a girl. Arigorn, Borimere, and Farmir look the same[and they kind of sound the same too!]but Gimili is okay. But the orcs look pretty good. When you build a base[or whatever they call it]it looks great. Its not to old looking but not to new.
4.Battle. When your at the Helms Deep level. You have to kill over 500 orcs. When your riders of Rohan or your elvish bowmen are strafing those orcs it looks great. it makes you feel like your the king. You can control bundles of troops to destroy your enemy. Personally bowmen are my favorite. Take Legolas and 10 bowmen you can take over Mor'dor.[you might need a couple more bowmen!]
5.Last but definently not least gameply. This is a simple game. You need only to collect two resorses. it is simple to build and control armies. You dont need to figure out puzzles. All you need to do is to know what lord of the rings is, know how to count, and to have a good battle stratagie in mind at all times.[which isn't to hard to figure out.]
Most of all have fun with this game. If you've played Warcraft2 then your over qualified to play this game. But ethier way you can be sure to buy this one. So go ahead join the battle for middle earth.
Rating: 
Summary: Quite Good, yet quite to harsh....
Review: I agree with George Bethanis...
The game is quite good, I mean, I love WarCraft and it's own storyline, but who hasn't dream to command legions of evil Orcs and Wargs, wraiths and spiders, Goblins and Trolls against the puny little forces of the free lands? This game is being released by Liquid, same old pals of Battle Realms, in fact this game uses the same arquitecture and graphic modules of the latest. (Such as Star Wars Gallactic Battlegrounds and Age of Empires) I love Battle Realms specially because of it's realism, wounded units moved slower, the melee looked more realistic (not just stand in front of the other and exchange blows) and I expected the same with War of the Ring, yet many things were taken and others added. As I said it is a good game, quite interesting and has very good graphics, yet it's insane the requeriments and the resources the game asks for...I have tested in several machines, including PIV 2.6, 512 Mb, ATI Rage 64Mb and yet it became frustrating trying to command a group of 12 or more orcs... Good game but asks too much for a PC, I rather take my bets with other RTS, or role playing ones...
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Summary: i can't get my mind off it!!!
Review: I don't know much about the game cause i got the demo but even just the demo i can tell this is a great game. if your not sure if you want to buy it cause you never played it before than trust me you should buy this game. if you don't believe me get the demo from www.lordoftherings.com and try it out yourself.
i like the role playing but i when the game suddenly stops and a quick conversation go's on it gets annoying. but all and all i give this game a 5 star for awsome grafics and it can be approved by both kid and adult.
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