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Summary: READ THE SPOTLIGHT REVIEW
Review: I have never played this game, but I was thinking about buying it. Then I read the spotlight review. It helped a lot. I am definetly going to buy this game. THANK YOU! READ THE SPOTLIGHT REVIEW PS: IGNORE MY RATING ON THE GAME AS I HAVE NEVER PLAYED (IT WOULD NOT LET ME POST THE REVIEW WITHOUT RATING IT)
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Summary: Good, but easy
Review: I have read the LOTR series and was excited for this game. When I got it, I realised that it was pretty much just warcraft with different characters. That was the first dissapointment. Next, I played it on all the difficulties but it just seems that my hoard of cloaked elven archers desimate all that is my enemy in a matter of minutes. The game is very fun with a cool but short single player but I think it is just too easy! Mabey the multiplayer will be better? I definetly hope so. Dont get me wrong, this game is good and worth the money by all means! I just wished that it could have put in more units and made the game a tad bit more difficult...
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Summary: I'm a Rings fan, but not much of a game player...
Review: I haven't played many computer games, particularly a real-time strategy such as this. I'm more of a LotR fan (the books primarily, and the films, of course).I had fun playing this game, even though I'm pretty pathetic at it. It wasn't hard to figure out how to play (although it helps if you've got some friends who know strategy games--they can give you tips on the finer points of what to do to actually try to win). Thank goodness it doesn't require the eye-hand coordination of a teen-ager (which I don't have!!!). It was interesting to see how Middle Earth was envisioned in this game. It's different than the films, which is a good thing since I can always see the films for that version--and there are other games which more easily can fit the look of the film version. I loved wandering about places like Mirkwood, where the trees were huge and your elf characters (along with Legolas!) hunts for Gollum and have to deal with nasty Giant Spiders and Orcs. It was also fun to play Dwarves and build a Giant Catapult or roll boulders off cliffs to fight off orcs. I was also surprised to really like playing the bad guys. When I figured out more about the game I could play some skirmishes and actually get some bigger units, like the Trolls--which were cool to see lumbering about. Even more powerful stuff, like getting Fate points and calling Gandalf or Ringwraith into being were harder for me, but still possible for a mediocre player. It should be possible for nearly every level of player to enjoy this game. When I set the levels to Easy, it was possible to see enough of the game not to be frustrated. I could even win every now and then! And as I learned more about how stuff worked, I got even better at it--just by playing the game. So take my advice with a pinch of salt: I'm not that familiar with computer games--particularly these kind. But as a casual player, I enjoyed it. As a LotR fan, it was great to see different interpretations of the world and the characters and to be able to play with the various kinds of units: elves, Gondorians, dwarves, Beornings, Orcs, Uruk-hai, Huorns, Rangers, Haradrim, etc., etc. The graphics are brighter and cheerier than the films which should appeal to younger kids, as well as adults who don't want everything to be gritty and grey.
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Summary: question
Review: I havn't bought the game but i would like to know if you build stuff like in the westwood games. I dunno it may seem stupid its jus i never played 'warcraft' b4 and i don't know what th
the style is!
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Summary: Pretty good game
Review: I like this game alot and it has in my opoin great grafics. But you must be warned this game is a huge power hog, while i don't think the reccomened CPU speed is right this thing needs alot of video power (32MG it aks for)With an onboard card even around 64MG i found it to be laggy. I can run ut fine on my Sony Vaio with 128MG seprate card. Also this program reccoumends 256Mg's of RAM alone not accounting for you OS and anyrthing already coming up. Please also note that you must be runnung the latest DirectX 9.0. It does higly recomend that you do not use a intoagrated video card. To get an idea of the power this thing needs download the demo first at http://www.warofthering.com/
Now to the reviw, i really like this game and find it a great way to relax. But like most games's of this style it takes alot of time to get ressorces and make them into warriors.
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Summary: True to Tolkien and fun gameplay
Review: I picked up War of the Rings just the other day and have been playing it since. It has a tremendously realistic feel for all Tolkien fans out there. The graphical sets for each of the missions are very much how I pictured them from the books, as well as true to the movies so far. The setting is Middle Earth and the Good Campaign chronicals all of the major heroes in the literary work. You are tasked with many different missions, some pre-requisites to others, and follow the books well into the story. Example of this are the Battle for Helm's Deep, the battle for Lothlorien, tracking Gollum, that battle for Gondor, etc. The graphics and storyline pay the game off extremely well, but the gameplay itself is typical of most RTS games; easy to learn and simplistic in nature (think WarCraft series). The r-click, l-click dilemma is solved in WotR with it being an option to choose, which is a nice added touch. The game came fully working and, unlike 95% of RTS game's first releases, had no noticable bugs for my system (2.2g, 512MBRam, Win XP). A very pleasant surprise. Anyone that's a fan of RTS or Tolkien would do well to pick this game up. It's simple to learn, fun to play and very immersive since it has such a prolific history. I can't wait to start the "Evil" campaign and get back into the storyline!
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Summary: Game does have MP (unlike what's stated in another review)
Review: I really enjoyed this game -- graphics are good and the gameplay in really great. In one of the previous user reviews on this page, they stated that the game was not playable over LAN and could only be played with two players on the same machine. They must be thinking of another game, because this game is fully playable over a LAN as well as over the Internet and cannot be played with two players on the same machine. (Maybe they're thinking of the Hobbit game?)
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Summary: WASTE OF MONEY. . .
Review: If you do not have an updated system, meaning the top of the line. Such as memory, hard drive, video card, etc. Then this game will not play on your computer. It didn't play on mine.
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Summary: Not bad
Review: In terms of gameplay, this game is very similar to Warcraft3. <ajax> haha ok a game with the install directory "War of the Ring(tm)" can't be very good. :P
<fRy> God.
<fRy> Are you serious.
<ajax> Yeah. :P
<ajax> The directory is property of the Tolkein estate, apparently.
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Summary: EXCELLENT
Review: In the world of WarCraft this game is just as good if not better. Great strategy and excellent gameplay.
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