An action game based on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, borrowing many gameplay mechanics from the Star Wars: Battlefront series. Take arms as one of four classes: scout, soldier, archer or wizard in epic battles across Middle Earth.
Lord of the Rings: Conquest.
I bought this game because, I just wanted a "Star Wars: Battlefront 2" like game, set in MIddle-Earth.
Well here it is... is good?
No, but it's fun. Let me explain.
If you're looking for a well made game, with good combat, balanced classes, good dialog, well made story, good graphics and good AI.
Then don't buy.
If you're looking for a game you can laugh at because of: bad AI, bad dialog, unbalanced classes and Frodo, who is a killer....... then buy.
You will find all the locations, where the big battles took place.
You'll find characters of Middle-Earth.
Good things: Soundtrack, the feeling that you actually Are in a big battle...
Buy it if you want a good laugh, because of all the bad things. Then you can easily buy it cheap somewhere.
Story: 3/10
Gameplay: 3/10
Graphics: 1/10
Durability: 4/10
Soundtrack: 10/10
It's good.
Not bad.
No gameplay featured at all, this is kind of a pointless demo where you spend 20-30 minutes running around pushing E, then once you get to what is supposed to be the fight its just you pushing a button over and over, should have just been a video published in their discord or something like that, not worth the space on your pc.
Such a fun game!
LotR: Conquest is a flawed but fun game. It is a battlefront 2 style game set in the world of Middle-Earth with a higher focus on close combat.
Campaign is solid especially if playing it for the first time, and the story it tells (War of the Ring specifically) and various locations you fight over will be familiar to any who watched Peter Jackson's LotR film trilogy. The levels get more difficult as you progress, and can prove to be quite the challenge. Only drawback is that its very linear and the only reason one would replay it is to either experience it again after laying off the game for years or try beating it on a higher difficulty, but even then there's no real award for doing it.
Gameplay is flawed and repetitive, but still weirdly fun and addicting. You need to do a lot of button mashing here in order to play competently and be prepared to be turned into combo food as you can get juggled to hell if you're not careful, and the mage class is a tad too powerful compared to the others. Scout class can insta-kill pretty much all enemies, even the 9ft tall Sauron which looks ridiculous. Many of the animations are also just subpar.
On the bright side being able to chain together different powerful combos as a warrior or scout class, blasting enemies off cliffs with a mage class shockwave/you shall not pass ability, getting headshots with a archer, throwing grabbed enemies like a ragdoll as a troll/ent, or whenever you get the chance to take control of a hero/villain (Including Sauron himself) or even a troll/ent/oliphaunt (playable only on specific maps) is always fun and satisfying. On some maps you can also mount horses or wargs to quickly get from one area to another and even trample enemies at full speed!
Graphics are dated as many have pointed out, you can tell it's from a different era, it has not held up particularly well. But still there's some nice details here and there (especially in the background of some campaign levels), and "decent enough" for what it is.
Dialogue is across the board bad to awful, and the in-game announcer is infamously annoying. The only good performance you'll find here is Hugo Weaving. He narrates the game's story, both the War of the Ring (Good Side) and Rise of Sauron (Evil Side).
Soundtrack is easily a 10/10 as many of the tracks are taken straight from the movies and god is it epic to listen to, especially as you slaughter hordes of Orcs as someone like Aragorn, it really makes the game that much better.
There's some deviations from the lore here too, mostly bad. Notably With the fact that there are hundreds of mages walking about (when there's only strictly 5 in the lore, who are all angelic Maias who have taken physical forms), Wormtongue taking a part in the battle of Isengard, and Sauron somehow resurrecting a slain Balrog. Witch-king i could see, but a balrog...idk about that.
TL;DR Overall for me it's a slightly above average game as i enjoyed it more than i maybe should have. There's a lot of fun to be had here, but one can't look past all the flaws it has.
Good game
great
do not think i am insane but between flinging orcs into lava or going 1v10 as witch king i never felt a game more fun than this
let the hate begin
just saying:
spoilers ahead
YOU CAN RIDE A MUMAKILL/TROLL/ENT
LOTR Conquest is basically a Star Wars: BF2 rip-off, set in Middle-Earth.
Whilst has some problems which mostly invole button-mashing, you'll find out that there are TONS of fun to be found here.