5 reviews
The Lord of the Rings: Conquest
Play as Evil characters in a brand new, 'Evil' campaign. Battle through scenarios after Frodo failed to destroy the One Ring; it's good to be bad! Battle online, in a co-op campaign or offline in split-screen.
Details
- Released
- January 8, 2009
- Developer
- Artificial Mind & Movement, Pandemic Studios
- Genres
- Hack and slash/Beat 'em up · Adventure
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
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The Lord of the Rings: Conquest is a straightforward affair with very little that will pleasantly surprise anyone who played Star Wars: Battlefront. Its combat and general mission structure is by-the-books and the lack of expandability and feeling of redundancy are felt instantly. Withstanding all of that, Conquest still somehow manages to earn merit on its expert use of The Lord of the Rings license. The environments feel like they're straight from the silver screen and Howard Shore's multiple orchestral pieces are great to fight alongside.
LotR: Conquest sounds fantastic. Featuring an incredible soundtrack that mimics the movies’ majestic orchestral themes, it feels as if you are in the movies fighting a desperate battle at The Black Gate or storming Helms Deep. The cut scenes taken from the movies also add to this effect of immersion and the deviously crafted Rise of Sauron cut scenes will delight many LotR fans.
The Lord of the Rings: Conquest is an action-packed game set in the Lord of the Rings universe of J.R.R. Tolkien where players will fight epic battles any way they want, whether it be as the heroic forces of good, or as the legions of Sauron’s evil army, including Cave-trolls, Oliphaunts, the Balrog and Sauron himself.
The Lord of the Rings: Conquest is a good but flawed effort from Pandemic Studios and has its visual presentation at times working with and then against it. Gameplay design and AI are the biggest shortcomings likely to infuriate at times but beneath those is a game relishing in war and its machinations. Ultimately I couldn’t help but wonder what truly could have been had the development team be given another year to slave over it.
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