The Lord Of The Rings: Conquest (Xbox 360)

Lord of the Rings: Conquest I think I've said it way too many times now, but licensed games suck generally. There have been exceptions but yadda yadda yadda. It's been said before so I won't go on about it again. But what has rarely been stated before is that the games based on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films were actually pretty good (except for the one based on the first film of course). EA have been consistent with good quality on their games for Lord of the Rings, though it's been a good three years since we've seen a LOTR game on Xbox. That is, until January of 2009 when Conquest was released. Coming from Pandemic Studios, who need to redeem ...  Read the complete review

Being a fan of The Lord Of the Rings books and the films by Peter Jackson I was anticipating a much better game than this. Whilst trying to use the formula of Star Wars battlefront it seems that EA have created a game unworthy of J.R.R Tolkiens ingenious as the storymode is relatively easy to complete and the online is relatively poor. The graphics are also bad with PS2 and even Gamecube graphics being better than the rubbish that EA has given. The achievements are also too easy with this being one of the easiest games I own and having completed all of the achievements in the first few days of owning the game. I wouldn't recommend the game to even die hard fans of the ...  Read the complete review

LOTR: Conquest, is a take on a Lord of The Rings game in a battlefront gameplay style. It has a lot of potential to it, but in my view, it doesn't do as well as it could. There is certainly space for many improvements in this game, if it does successfully achieve a sequel, which it probably wont. ~Gameplay~ While the gameplay is at first entertaining and enjoyable, after a time it actually becomes quite limited. There are only a few different attack types for players to use, and not many combos to use either. In star wars battlefront there are a variety of different combos, but it's limited here. When the game does start becoming repetitive, players will ...  Read the complete review

To all intents and purposes, I feel as though I should like this game. All the elements are there - Lord of the Rings theme, big epic battles, several different character classes to play, recreated Lord of the Rings locations... so why can i just not bring myself to enjoy this game??? The general idea here is sound - just like the relatively good Xbox game 'Star Wars: Battlefront', the game puts the 'Battlefield 1942' mold of epic action gameplay into a popular movie franchise. That is, each stage takes place on a sweeping epic battlefield, and you are allowed you to play as either a mere troop amongst the masses or as one of the main characters from the ...  Read the complete review

I've had mixed emotions about this game. I could be playing it and having the most fun ever, then suddenly realise, wow this is rubbish, and to be truthful, it is. Lord of the Rings conquest uses an upgraded version of the engine from the game Star Wars Battlefront 2 (or so it says) but puts a Lord of the Rings skin over the top. This story has you start with a simple training mission set during the war against Sauron and gives you some good knowledge to get going with such as the different moves that each class can pull off and the abilities of heroes. The actual game missions start at the battle of Helm's Deep. I remember having so high hopes of ...  Read the complete review