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    The Lord of the Rings: Conquest

    Game » consists of 9 releases. Released Jan 13, 2009

    A multiplayer action game developed by Pandemic Studios set in the Lord of the Rings universe.

    gmanall's The Lord of the Rings: Conquest (Xbox 360) review

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    Conquest of the Red Rings

      When I first heard about this I got caught in the what little media hype there was. I fell for it mainly because I am a big LOTR fan, so my first impressions were overblown a lot. 
      The game features two campaigns, the first highlights some of the best battles of the movie, and the second is a what if  scenario that makes you the bad guy. The novelty of playing as the evil dudes is only fun for a couple of minutes mainly because they did nothing to make them feel any different from being the other side. The story is presented with scenes from the movie, which is good but is easy to tell they went the easy way. 
      The game also has a balance problem because if you want to fight, the mage is the win player and all the others don't compare.  Notice I said "if" because the game spawns so much that if you ever want to continue you have to run by them. It is useless to stand there fighting when hordes of enemy's keep coming and coming and it is just easier to ignore them.  There are tons of glitches and to many pits and the world feels mostly empty that it drains the experience.    

    Other reviews for The Lord of the Rings: Conquest (Xbox 360)

      In Conquest's Retelling of the Legend, Sauron Has Hops 0

      The first thing that Tolkien fans should know about Conquest is to forget everything that they think they know about the Lord of the Rings. In the same way that EA has used the Godfather franchise to forge a fun game that uses the film as a springboard for shop smashing extortion, shootouts, and gangland vendettas, Conquest does the same with Peter Jackson’s celluloid treatment by turning it into an action packed killing field of oliphants and elves. Pandemic has leveraged their experience from ...

      2 out of 2 found this review helpful.

      Toss Lord of the Rings Conquest into the firey depths or Mt. Doom 0

       I suppose it says a lot about Star Wars Battlefront II that it still sits right behind Halo 2 as the most played  original Xbox title on  You shall not play this game! Live. It took the class-based gameplay of Team Fortress and Return to Castle Wolfenstein and wrapped it up with a nice Star Wars bow on top. With The Lord of the Rings: Conquest, Pandemic has hoped to recreate that magic, trading Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader for Frodo Baggins and Sauron. The single-player campaign of...

      1 out of 1 found this review helpful.

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