Rating: 
Summary: Solid game for gamers with a brain (not pudding)
Review: First: LORS3 is NOT Lords of the realm 2.The game: - strategic map. You have to place vassals. Sounds easy and it is in the beginning cos you don't have much choices (yet). You have farmers (food), you have priests (relations), you have burghers (money -> mercenaries, relations and upgrading of castles) and you have Knights (armies). All of them are different and the deeper you go into the game, the more you will have. Managing and placing all these vassals is part of the strategy and get's more difficult with time. You have to think about your military strikes carefully and also keep an army or two to guard your backyard as he ai sees your weak points and attack them. The wrong strategy and you've lost very quickly.
-Combat map. Well it's not praetorians, but it's very well done. The ai knows very well how to attack your castle. The very very bad: no printed manual. This is bad. However, it seems that almost nobody here has been able (or knows how) to download the manual from the homepage www.Lords3.com (just click on the link...yes, yes it works!). Plenty of information there. The Forums are full of nice people who take their time to explain the game (And it's not that complicated, fellows). The very very good: the game is simple but difficult to master. Most of the player seem to stop after the campaign of Ireland. That campaign is actually the last part of the tutorial. The real fun begins later. Don't resign until you've played the Black Prince scenario.
Rating: 
Summary: Don't Listen to That Guy from Notre Dame!
Review: HAS TO BE ONE OF THE WORST GAMES OF THE YEAR!! Lords III is a total goatrope- that guy who reviewed it from
Notre Dame had no idea what he was talking about. Merchants
have nothing to do with anything. You are not a vassal,
the vassals are the parade of idiots you're given to lead
your armies. Allowing the rest of your nation to go into
the crapper for the joy of actually getting to run one of
your own battles was a ridiculous concept that should have
been left on the cutting room floor. Well- now we know why this POS was delayed for so long-
because THEY HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO DO.. and never figured it out!
Ever heard of "All things come to those who wait.."?
Well, keep waiting and save yourself the money.
When the UPS guy came to my house to drop this piece of junk off
I should have sent him packing with it back to Amazon.
LOR II- Awesome! Lords of Magic- playable, even fun.
LOR III? Honestly- don't even bother..
Rating:
Summary: Looks cool, no fun to play
Review: The A.I. vassels removed what I liked about LOTR II. Also, every time I start the game it takes over 5 minutes to get to main menu because it says it is optimizing all of these maps. I have plenty of disk space and did a full install, all this stuff should already be ready to go on my hard drive . . .right ? ? ? I liked the turn based of II also. Real time doesn't allow me to review my empire and actually make STRATEGIC decisions ! ! The graphics are good, sound also. Can't command a single soldier, the whole company goes apparently. I think I enjoyed the more specific, hands-on county controlling, cows, grain, weapons, rock, wood etc. and warfare of LOTR II. These days, getting $$ back for these games is impossible. I ignored bad reviews thinking that they couldn't possibly be right, since LOTR II was so cool (IMHO).
Rating:
Summary: Not worth even one star
Review: This is the wrst game ever. Over the last few years Sierra has really disappointed me by not producing any decent startegy game. Instead, we get this P.O.S. that barely lets you make any decisions. In the least, LOR III should have improved AI and graphics of LOR II. 20$ price should have been a dead give away, I bought it anyway. 20 minutes later I threw it away, it was just that awful.
Rating:
Summary: Newer not always is better
Review: I bought this game one month ago, together with "American Conquest Fight Back", if I liked the last one as top of the bunch, LOTR III is bottom.
I'll try to sell my copy, and desperately look for an used copy of the first version.
Rating:
Summary: What were they smoking?
Review: I wish i could give this game negative stars that is how poorly the makers did with this. i can help but wonder if they just decided to scrap production and rush the release with this mess of a program they call a game... Save your money like the last guy said and play lords of the realm 2. verry dissapointed and verry frustraited. i waited months for this release and what a let down. all you do is move a man here or there and thats is about it. no building no real managing nothing but an occasional battle. well let me tell you the battles in lords 2 are far more better than the mess in 3 sorly dissapointed. i think they should have paid me to buy that game
Rating:
Summary: Ha! And this game was 4 years in the making! LMAO!
Review: I was happy to see LORII was being made when it was first announced way back in 2001. As soon as I heard the developers were going to defect to the RTS craze, I knew it was a lost cause. There has been more RTS crap churned out than ever before..RTS SUCKS because you don't have time to strategize. It's the same old boring repetitive crap. Yet developers keep making the same garbage. LORIII was supposed to be realized in christmas of 2002, then spring 2003, then winter 2003, ugg, I can't remember how many times it was delayed. You can tell the project must have been in total chaos. Word to the game developers...try making a game that actually requires thought and strategy.
Rating:
Summary: Disappointment
Review: Well to start, I should have listened to the reviews. I read the negative reviews and thought that they could not be accurate. As a big fan of Lords 2 I felt that Lords 3 would be at least as good. Well I was totaly wrong. This game is a total disappointment. The only action is in choosing vasels to run your realm. Well as in Lords 2 I enjoyed runing all aspects. What made Lords 2 a great game were many little fun things to do such as choosing which weapons the blacksmith would produce, choosing what to put on which field, coming up with battle strategies and repairing damaged castles. Lords 3 has none of this. I say to Sierra shame on you, and I will think long and hard before buying a Sierra game again. You should save face and refund the fans money. To the game producers go play Lords 2 and see how you ruined such a good title. To the fans, do what I did not do and trust the reviews.
Rating:
Summary: After all the delays this crap!!!!
Review: I cannot believe what they have done.
With the blind purpose of archieving a real time game they have killed Lords of the realm. Real Strategy needs turns!!!!! Imagine a real time chess, would be pathetic. Now this game is just moving armies as fast as you can and try to choose the best knights. The fun of Lords I and II was keeping happy your people while having a huge army.
Now no armies raised, no food problems, no happiness....
It's so sad. Multiplayer was nice with Lords2 and in Civ3 nobody plays real time, allways simultaneous turns. I think I'm gonna cry.
Rating: 
Summary: So far so good
Review: Graphics are nice. No freezing or bugs as of yet. Running XP. I was bit aprehensive ordering on the 2nd day out but still giving it a fair shake. Love the formation troop control and individual battles. Strategic level really isn't that different from Lord's II. Still learning the subtleties of the game and will be going head to head with another buddy soon to test multiplayer. Heck ... its worth the $20 bucks to learn and play.
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