Brought to you by Pandemic, the creators of the Star Wars Battlefront games and published by EA is LOTR: Conquest. A very 'Battlefronty' type game that pits orcs v. humans in a battle royale. Play as a mage, scout, archer, warrior or special*. Demo came out today on the US Playstation store - includes offline tutorial mission and online matches.
My first opinion was very negative, just jumping straight into the online game gives you the realization that this is not a good looking game. After spending some time with the tutorial and going back online I there was definitely some fun to be had.
Each class brings something different, although I liked the archer and warrior classes the best since the other two are more specialized. The demo has horses that you can mount for quickly traversing the level (I didn't see if you could attack on them - it didn't seem like it but I'm not 100% sure), there are special units that you can control such as the Ents or Trolls. These guys are like the "Tanks" that have devastating power at the cost of mobility. You can also play as Hero characters like Gandalf. Don't know how but there was a guy playing him kicking ass.
It's shame that the game isn't more polished. The LOTR action games on the PS2/Xbox were among my favorite games of the last generation and this doesn't look as good to me. I know it's a little different but we'll see.
There's a lot of stuff that could make this game very cool like a leveling system and more mounts. If you can fly around in a dragon or eagle that would be sweet. Don't know if it has any of that though.
*Can be hero or creature.
My first opinion was very negative, just jumping straight into the online game gives you the realization that this is not a good looking game. After spending some time with the tutorial and going back online I there was definitely some fun to be had.
Each class brings something different, although I liked the archer and warrior classes the best since the other two are more specialized. The demo has horses that you can mount for quickly traversing the level (I didn't see if you could attack on them - it didn't seem like it but I'm not 100% sure), there are special units that you can control such as the Ents or Trolls. These guys are like the "Tanks" that have devastating power at the cost of mobility. You can also play as Hero characters like Gandalf. Don't know how but there was a guy playing him kicking ass.
It's shame that the game isn't more polished. The LOTR action games on the PS2/Xbox were among my favorite games of the last generation and this doesn't look as good to me. I know it's a little different but we'll see.
There's a lot of stuff that could make this game very cool like a leveling system and more mounts. If you can fly around in a dragon or eagle that would be sweet. Don't know if it has any of that though.
*Can be hero or creature.
