Lord of the Rings: Conquest

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• Choose Your Side in the War of the Ring - Play through all the battles from the films and fight through an all-new story in the Evil campaign
• Play How You Want - Wield a sword, shoot a bow, use stealth, or conjure magic. Take control of Trolls, Oliphaunts, horses, catapults, heroes, and villains - the choice is yours
• Epic Online Battles - Featuring 16-player clashes in a wide variety of different modes

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B001AVOJ5K
• Item Weight: 4 ounces
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: January 13, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,389 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PC

Lord of the Rings: Conquest PC

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally a game I actually like..., January 14, 2009

By 

Matt - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Lord of the Rings: Conquest (DVD-ROM)

So, I've been playing for a while, and I actually think this is a pretty good game. I haven't finished it yet, but am on my way. I think the whole interface is pretty good, makes good use of the keyboard/mouse combo...definitely not a game you'd want to use a controller for...at least me. So far it's been plenty fun, and pretty challenging actually. I mean, once you get the hang of it you won't have any problems progressing through the game. Graphics are also pretty good, and runs quite well on my 1680x1050 monitor with all settings set to high...that's more than I can say for some games I've recently purchased. This is actually probably one of the best game's I've played on my PC for a while now...at least a few month's or so. Most of the game's I've been trying out were just failures. I also like how they incorporate scenes from the movie into the game as to show you what's going on. I've never personally played a Lord of The Rings game before, but after playing this I'm thinking I need to go back and get some of them. This is a great game to have fun and pass time, and it definitely gives you the Lord of The Rings feel. Many different characters to choose from, whether you want to be a Warrior, Mage, Scout, Archer, etc, and each have their own special attacks/moves. If I had to compare it to a game I'd have to say it's quite like Warrior's Orochi, which was another game I really enjoyed on PC.

You also get to play as Heroes, and Villian's throughout the game, such as, Aragon, Frodo, Gandolf, Saruman, Sauron, and Wormtongue. It's really quite fun to play as all the different characters. The online multiplayer, though I haven't played too much, is also pretty fun. I'd give it a 4/5. Has a few different modes, so surely everyone will find one they like.

If you like these kind of games, it's really quite fun, and I definitely recommend it. Also, this is definitely one of those games you need to get for PC over console's. At least that's the way I feel about game's like these. Same way with Command and Conquer...it's a great game on PC, but only so so on console's. I personally haven't tried the console version of this game, so maybe it's just as good, but I definitely recommend it on PC.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Immersive world, wheres the Balrog (singleplayer conquest)?, March 3, 2009

By 

SteamaZon - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Lord of the Rings: Conquest (DVD-ROM)

When Lord of the Rings Return of the King game was released a few years ago, I was impressed and immersed in its visuals. However, the game was so difficult; I was unable to complete most of the levels and gave up. At the same time, I wished I could depart from the goals of each mission and just spend some time running around the map either watching the fight or sniping at some orcs.

What I REALLY wanted was Lord of the Rings battlefield 42 as I enjoyed the way one could move freely about and engage / not engage the enemy and die and be respawn again without having to start over each time.

Lord of the Rings Conquest follows in that tradition and I certainly felt as part of that imaginary Tolkien world of the Jackson movies. The blue skies of the crushed Osgiliath, the dark mines of Moria with its vertigo crevasses and steep staircases sans guardrail plus other locations thrusts one deep into the movies' landscape. Oliphants lumber through the landscape of the Pelennor Fields map, and arrayed armies stand ready for deployment on the peripherals of other levels. One cannot venture in to attack the oliphants , though, as they are JUST a stage trick, designed to complete the atmosphere of a large, active battlefield of which the player is just a small part of.

Now, as a casual gamer who does singleplayer, I will only relate the experience from that point of view.

One selects and spawns in as either an archer, Mage, scout and warrior type character. I found the archer to be the easiest and friendliest for my relaxed gameplay style, followed by the mage.

Archery requires no knowledge of physics adjustments for windage, distance or any of that junk. Point at the target and the arrow hits it instantly at flat, sniper rifle speed trajectories. Fire arrows set nothing aflame that I can see, but instead explode on contact; knocking over its target. Stick an arrow in an enemy mage and he will probably lift up his shield barrier. The AI bots do pretty well at protecting themselves in this fashion.

The scout and warrior require a mad combination of right, left and middle clickings combined with the deft use of the shift and control keys in order to make the best use of them. If heped up on sugarbabies, caffine and maybe something else purchased furtively from skeevy individuals wearing dark overcoats in poorly lit alleyways, I might be able to get those classes to work right. Otherwise it's a topsy turvey screen of flying bodies, flailing arms and legs and wondering what just happened.

With their selected class, the player spawns in and just starts attacking any which way possible. Unlike most other battlefield style games, where I the best way find the enemy is to follow the friendly bots, in most cases, glance right or left and opponents are already RIGHT THERE wailing away on your hide. Great fun while it lasts.

The campaigns are interesting and give a more expansive view and access to more areas of the map than instant action. Campaigns are limiting though, as that they require specific goals to be accomplished in a certain way. But certain aspects can be amusing. On a sub-mission I was required to slay Wormtongue. No problem, my pleasure. The mapguide pointed out Wormtongue and I stalked his pasty flesh ready to stick it full of arrows; but could not spot him. Then before I could react, he appeared under my nose front and center and sliced into many pieces MY noble flesh. I spawned back and as I sought revenge, I learned my men killed Wormtongue instead.

Now this brings up another matter, why is it unpaid kitchen modders must create those great game modifications which allow the AI to use heroes in the instant action maps? Though the 4 classes each provide a different gaming experience, there is the challenge of trying to bring down mighty heroes of great renown, a troll or Balrog, or even Wormtongue and do it on the skirmish maps. However, this simply is not possible in singleplayer at this time and this feature awaits the emergence of a fan mod.

Pros: Freeform battlefield / Battlefront style game allows players to spawn into an ongoing battle. If killed, they just spawn back into the ongoing battle.

Immersive Tolkien style world based on the recent movie series.

Wash: Complex Scout and Warrior mouse/ keyboard combo control moves might be too daunting for some.

Maps for conquest maybe too small and tight.

Cons: Ai bots NEVER select any heroes, use trolls, ents or other special characters (again we have to wait for some amateur basement modder to create a game modification that allows this, something that should have been programmed by professionals into the release version to begin with. The same thing occurred with Star Wars Battlefront 2 until somebody clever with the handle of archer01 created an AI heroes mod where, both friendly and enemy AI used the tough Jedi heroes).

DRM may cause problems on some systems, difficult install and play situations and bring up issues surrounding future installs.

Instant action / Skirmish maps do not restart automatically after a match, one has navigate several screens to reselect the map.

5 stars
-1 for DRM
-1 for no heroes / trolls/ balrogs / Wormtongue / Mouth of Sauron etc in singleplayer skirmish
3 stars total

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Amazon Information is Incorrect for this UPC, March 5, 2009

By 

Keith Dann "The Movies and More Store" (Orlando Fl) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Lord of the Rings: Conquest (DVD-ROM)

The UPC related to this Amazon listing is for the Xbox360 version of this game. We have attempted to correct this through Amazon but they stated that thay cannot verify the website information we provided as proof.

As a fairly large Marketplace seller on Amazon, we mass list our items using the UPC, and Amazon provides the item details. PLEASE NOTE that if this item is purchased through us, The Movies and More Store, it WILL NOT BE for the PC version of the game.

Hopefully, we will be able to convince them to correct this issue soon.

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