Product Description

In this exciting, action strategy game, players fight on the side of both Good and Evil in all the biggest battles from 'The Lord of the Rings' movies. The Battlefront format allows them to switch between characters at will, to suit the circumstance or their style, reliving - and even reinventing - the chaotic and engrossing conflicts from the films as they choose how best to tackle their objectives and defeat their enemies. In online multiplayer, gamers can choose to be Evil from the outset.

• 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!
• Acclaimed Battlefront gameplay in a fantasy setting allows players to choose the way they fight, as Warrior, Archer, Mage or Scout in melee and ranged combat.
• Battle online, with up to 16 players in instant action mode or 2 players in a co-op campaign or offline with 2-4 players in split-screen.
• Local multiplayer split-screen with up to 4 players competitively or 2-player co-op.
• A massive cast of characters and weapons adds great depth to the gameplay: Heroes, Wargs, Ents, Oliphaunts, Cave-trolls, the Balrog, Nazgul, ballistae, and more!

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #917 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2009-01-16
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
• Format: Unknown format
• Original language: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
There are many reasons to love The Lord of the Rings, but if your favourite parts were the epic sized battles, then this should be the game for you. You’re able to play as almost any character, good or evil, and take part in giant online battles.

The fell beasts of the nazgul are one of the most powerful mounts

Take part in the defence of Minas Tirith… or the attack

Almost every creature from the books and movies are featured

Oliphaunts are the biggest creatures you can face in the game

The game recreates a wide range of scenes from both the films and the books, including Gandalf’s fight against the Balrog in the Mines of Moria and the Battle of Isengard, where you can play as a tree-like Ent. There are two separate campaigns, for the forces of good and evil, with the latter allowing you to rid oliphaunts in the attack on Minas Trith or to fight as trolls at Helm’s Deep.

Online up to sixteen people can fight in the one battle, across a multitude of different competitive and co-operative game modes. If you can’t play online though up to four people can still fight it out in the splitscreen mode.

Key Features

• Battlefront redux – Developed by Pandemic Studios, the creators of the Star Wars: Battlefront series, this is very much the same idea but set in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy world.
• From the source – The game’s graphics have been created with help directly from movie special effects team Weta Digital, including elements not used in the final cuts.
• Schools out – The game features five different classes of character, including warrior, archer, scout, mage and guardian.
• Star studded – More than 60 different characters are planned for the final game, including everyone from Aragon and Gandalf to the Uruk-hai Lurtz and even Sauron himself.
• Lonely planet – Almost every location form the films and books is featured in the game, from the Black Gate and The Shire to Rivendell and Shelob’s Lair.

About the developer: Pandemic Studios
One of the biggest developers in the U.S., especially after merging with BioWare and then being bought by EA, Pandemic has worked on many different styles of games, from Battle Zone on the PC to Full Spectrum Warrior, Star Wars: Battlefront, Mercenaries and Destroy all Humans!

Manufacturer's Description
In this exciting, action strategy game, players fight on the side of both Good and Evil in all the biggest battles from The Lord of the Rings movies. The Battlefront format allows them to switch between characters at will, to suit the circumstance or their style, reliving - and even reinventing - the chaotic and engrossing conflicts from the films as they choose how best to tackle their objectives and defeat their enemies. In online multiplayer, gamers can choose to be Evil from the outset.

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Customer Reviews

Muddle-Earth
Is it really almost 6 years since the Lord of the Rings movies enthralled 99% of movie-goers?
Unfortunately it is still 6 years of sub-par Middle-Earth based games. Conquest offers nothing new or original in terms of gaming. The combat is hard to follow due to the terrible camera angles and is repetitive after the first 'battle', with enemies that are, in one battle, easy to kill, but are in others, impossible, even with the mightiest of Middle-Earths heroes.
For example, when given a task to Rally at a certain point, I have found it easier to merely run past the oncoming enemy, without the need to even fight them. I was also disappointed to hear terrible impersonations of the original actors, so dont expect Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen or Christoper Lees dulcet tones to enhance the experience either.
But the greatest disappointment i found with this game is certainly the scale of the game. The movies graced our screens with thousands and thousands of hordes of orcs, but the game doesnt even come close. You fight up to about 10 enemies at a time, turning the Battles of Helms Deep and Gondor into light skirmishes. This game was so underwhelming, not even playing as an Ent or Troll could lift my spirits.
If you want to slash and kill the forces of Sauron, dust off the PS2 copy of Return of the King. I would rate it far higher.
(A review of the game NOT the demo, so I dont want any comments to that affect hahaha)

Its easy to overlook the flaws.
This game gets alot of bad reviews which it does not deserve. the campaign levels are great fun usually ending whith some kind of boss battle. Loads of enemys are on screen at once and the game is not really that linear, The classes are each fun to play as and your options include: you can provide archer support from a ridge, heal your players as a mage, or do the dirty work and plow through as a warrior or finnaly the most rewarding you can sneak up and one hit kill people as a scout. When your finished playing out the good and evil campaings, Lord of the Rings online will keep you addicted for a while, the best mode to play is hero team death match where 8 heroes fight out against bad guys with playable characters including: Aragon, Legolas, Gimli,Frodo, Gandalf, Eowyn, Faramir, Elrond, Sauron, Saruman, Mouth of Sauron, Lurtz, Grima. You pick anyone you want out of this list pretty much (give or or take a few on some maps) and you can have some great simple fun, and yes the online cna be sometimes fustrating and seems poorly designed because of warriors not being that useful, but hey dont play as them. Definetly buy this game if you liked lotr two towers or return of the king on PS2 but don't expect the overall polish of say call of duty from this game.

One Ring to rule F - all
Lord of The Rings is a perfect license for a videogame. It has great characters, a great story of good vs. Evil, loads of magic and plenty of gruesome battles. It has everything. Everything you'd want. Everything.

Once you've played this game though, you'll wonder what clueless dimwits were charged with programming this garbage.

It must be one of the worst jobs to get as a videogame programmer - working on a film license title. Six months of slobbering Pr men and Executives screaming through their sandwiches 'WE NEED MORE EXPLOSIONS!!!'. Then the depressing realisation after the development time is up that all you have helped create is something that not even the devil would wipe his backside with.

The whole game has a feeling that the developers realised half way through that it was rubbish, but they just carried on regardless. The controls are terrible. The graphics arent much better. The Camera is seemingly operated by an over zealous idiot with cataracts, and even the collision detection is flawed. IN THIS DAY AND AGE.

There are times when you will hit some one but it wont register as a hit and all of a sudden they will appear behind you. Which leads me on to the worst part of the game - YOU CAN BE HIT FROM BEHIND. How on earth are you supposed to see an archer that is miles behind you but constantly fires arrows into your back? Theres no kind of strategy to the game, you cant plan were you want to go, assess the battlefield and go from there. Of course not. You just have to wade in like an idiot using a variety of pretty useless special attacks that tend to go around your enemy most times while you are being hit from all angles.

Despite this your energy doesnt really go down anyway because everyone you kill drops energy balls. So not only is it frustrating, its actually easy aswell. Wow, I never actually thought that was possible...

On the plus side, its over quite quickly, and its also one for the trophy addicts out there as its a pretty easy platinum if you can force yourself to sit through the few hours this drudgery lasts for. For any normal person though, they will probably give up halfway through and curse to the gaming gods that this rectum shattering piece of waste was ever released in the first place.