Claim the Ring for Good or Evil (The Lord of the Rings Tactics (PSP))

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Product:	The Lord of the Rings Tactics (PSP)
Date:	11/06/08 (36 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Decent gameplay | Play as your favourite characters from Lord of the Rings

Disadvantages: Crashes often, many slow-downs, drab envoronments

Difficulty: Medium
Learning Curve: 30 - 60 minutes.

With the increasingly amount of tactics based games being released on the PSP platform, the lord of the rings franchise finally sticks their finger in this pie and create Lord of the Rings: Tactics. For one player offline, and offering versus battles online, this game will intrigue those tactical gamers out there.

You have a choice of fighting for good, or evil, both with their own unique stories that intertwine with each other. The entire battlefields you fight on are all grid-like, allowing further tactics and strategy in your fighting. You will play through the legendary battles from the novels/movies, and control heroes from both sides, you will also control low class warriors to assist you in your endeavours. You move your units from square to square, and attacking and destroying those enemy forces.

After each battle, it will tally up your kills and experienced earned from it. You will gain experience from achieving objectives and killing foes. Once you've acquired your experience, you can then spend them on stats, to increase your characters even further.

Having said all that, Lord of the Rings: Tactics does have some down-sides, such as the slowdowns, and the constant game crashes, that just are shy of being frustrating. It is quite easy to look past these mishaps, as the game play is involving enough.

Gameplay - 7.2/10
With this turn based tactic game, where you choose where your characters go, and anticipate your enemies footsteps, and prepare strategic plans to devastate them, this really is quite a fun game to get involved with.

Design - 5/10
The graphics are really drab compared to what the PSP can really offer, and most of the environments seem too much alike each other to bring much variety.

Sound - 7/10
With clips and music from the movies, this game is pretty 'epic'.

Value - 6/10
With the straight forward story, it won't leave much for replay value, at least there is plenty to do with going through the Good story and the Evil story. However, online mode isn't good enough to be of any real value.

Overall - 6.5/10
With most Lord of the Rings games being sub-par, this really brings a unique spin to the series for the PSP, and brings something new to the table for gamers, but with the crashes and dull environments, it could have been far better.

Summary: With most Lord of the Rings games being sub-par, this really brings a unique spin to the series