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Quite Good, yet quite to harsh....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: December 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I agree with George Bethanis...
The game is quite good, I mean, I love WarCraft and it's own storyline, but who hasn't dream to command legions of evil Orcs and Wargs, wraiths and spiders, Goblins and Trolls against the puny little forces of the free lands?

This game is being released by Liquid, same old pals of Battle Realms, in fact this game uses the same arquitecture and graphic modules of the latest. (Such as Star Wars Gallactic Battlegrounds and Age of Empires)

I love Battle Realms specially because of it's realism, wounded units moved slower, the melee looked more realistic (not just stand in front of the other and exchange blows) and I expected the same with War of the Ring, yet many things were taken and others added.

As I said it is a good game, quite interesting and has very good graphics, yet it's insane the requeriments and the resources the game asks for...I have tested in several machines, including PIV 2.6, 512 Mb, ATI Rage 64Mb and yet it became frustrating trying to command a group of 12 or more orcs...

Good game but asks too much for a PC, I rather take my bets with other RTS, or role playing ones...

A Sadly Disappointing Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: September 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The War of the Ring has a good theme - you can either control the forces of good or the forces of evil and try to take over Middle Earth. It is about the Lord of the Rings books - not the movies. Unfortunately, that is where the compliments end. I have a Pentium 4, 2 Ghz computer yet the game is constantly freezing, looks fuzzy and takes 2-3 seconds for your mouse clicks to register. It also has long loading times and only two types of resources (ore and food). Just to make matters worse, 90% of the game is waiting for things to get built or resources to be collected. Just a warning to anyone out there who hasn't bought this game - DON'T waste your money or else you'll find out it is a sadly disappointing game yourself. Jeremy Smith, Age 11

Game does have MP (unlike what's stated in another review)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: February 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I really enjoyed this game -- graphics are good and the gameplay in really great.

In one of the previous user reviews on this page, they stated that the game was not playable over LAN and could only be played with two players on the same machine. They must be thinking of another game, because this game is fully playable over a LAN as well as over the Internet and cannot be played with two players on the same machine. (Maybe they're thinking of the Hobbit game?)

This game is soooooooo awsome!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: June 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Have you played two towers? Well you thought it was great right? Did you play the return of the king? Awsome? Well this game is one of the best games i've ever played based on lord of the rings.Here are some reasons why i give this game a 4 star rating: 1. If you've played etheir of the games above you know that the music is one of the things that puts you on the edge of your seat. Well let me tell you that this game has some of the most thrilling musical featurretts that I have ever heard. In the forests they have a certain type of music. In sieging castle levels [or defending] they have a perfect timed yet fast paced action beat. 2. The background. It has so much texture, it almost looks real. The trees look so good. The grass is so green. the sea looks salty blue . So you can probably imagine what the forests of this game will look like. 3.Now we talk graphics. I was a little disapointed with the graphics. Im sorry to say but my favorite charicter Legolas looks like a girl. Arigorn, Borimere, and Farmir look the same[and they kind of sound the same too!]but Gimili is okay. But the orcs look pretty good. When you build a base[or whatever they call it]it looks great. Its not to old looking but not to new. 4.Battle. When your at the Helms Deep level. You have to kill over 500 orcs. When your riders of Rohan or your elvish bowmen are strafing those orcs it looks great. it makes you feel like your the king. You can control bundles of troops to destroy your enemy. Personally bowmen are my favorite. Take Legolas and 10 bowmen you can take over Mor'dor.[you might need a couple more bowmen!] 5.Last but definently not least gameply. This is a simple game. You need only to collect two resorses. it is simple to build and control armies. You dont need to figure out puzzles. All you need to do is to know what lord of the rings is, know how to count, and to have a good battle stratagie in mind at all times.[which isn't to hard to figure out.] Most of all have fun with this game. If you've played Warcraft2 then your over qualified to play this game. But ethier way you can be sure to buy this one. So go ahead join the battle for middle earth.

Game is Just Like Command and Conquer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 40
Date: November 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game reminds me of command and conquer or stronghold. You build men and send them into battle. Of course there are major differences. The graphics are better and more and better units. The buildings are better constructed and are able to be destroyed harder. Thanx

Not Bad

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: December 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This one was just okay for me. I am a big fan of Warcraft and this game is along the same lines. My copy was a bit buggy though, with visual glitches which took away from my enjoyment. The game is licensed from the books, so the orcs and such are a little differant from the movie versions. If you want the movie version, go pick up Battle for Middle Earth. All in all, this game had decent graphics, good AI, and had kept me entertained.

EXCELLENT

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 13
Date: December 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

In the world of WarCraft this game is just as good if not better. Great strategy and excellent gameplay.

Where did the rest of the game go?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: April 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

What the heck? Where's the second half of this game? Okay, so it's cookie cutter... okay, so it's a year-or-two late Warcraft 3/Battle Realms love-child... okay, so the graphics are cartoony. Why does the game end where it does? It looks like they took half the missions out of the good campaign!! After some interesting "prequel missions" that take place before the books, you hop right into a mission with the whole fellowship at Lothlorien, battle at Helm's Deep, and fight a couple of extra-canonical battles. ***BUT*** there's no Moria, no Minas Tirith, no Return of the King events at all. Even more perplexing, Moria even appeared in a development screenshot I saw, but NOT in the game I purchased--the only FOTR event is a fictitious battle in Lothlorien (where golden trees drive orcs "mad"?). There's no Emyn Muil (is that where the first book ends?) so you'll lose Boromir with no explanation. Faramir shows up for 1 battle and that's it. The hobbits also show up for 1 mission (almost without purpose). What's even more perplexing is that the overhead map, that lets you choose where to fight, displays locations you'll never get to! It shows a tiny little Isengard, a tiny little Minas Tirith, a tiny Mt. Doom and Barad-Dur, and what looks like Elrond's house. You'll never see any of these. It seems odd that they'd go outside of the books for extra material, but not include the most interesting parts that are ALREADY THERE for them to do. Just plain weird. I don't know if it feels thrown together or rushed or what, but there's no excuse for making up a bunch of odd extra-canonical missions (after Helm's Deep Aragorn captures Minas Ithil?) and leave out the most interesting stuff.

The only thing I can think of comapring this to would be a game based on Star Wars Ep. 4, that includes lots of story about Luke's childhood but ends with him rescuing Leia and completely ignores the big space battle at the end. It seemingly aims to strike "around" the material covered in the books and avoid the actual events from the story (which is what we're paying for, right?). It just leaves you asking "why?" and looking for a better game.

Good, but easy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: January 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have read the LOTR series and was excited for this game. When I got it, I realised that it was pretty much just warcraft with different characters. That was the first dissapointment. Next, I played it on all the difficulties but it just seems that my hoard of cloaked elven archers desimate all that is my enemy in a matter of minutes. The game is very fun with a cool but short single player but I think it is just too easy! Mabey the multiplayer will be better? I definetly hope so. Dont get me wrong, this game is good and worth the money by all means! I just wished that it could have put in more units and made the game a tad bit more difficult...

Less Than Stellar

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: December 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When I heard that there was going to be a Lord of the Rings, RTS (Real Time Strategy game) I was excited after having played the Microsoft game, Age of Mythology which was also a RTS and I got the expansion to that and thoroughly enjoyed it. So I thought, if the gameplay is like Age of Mythology, or uses the same engine with good graphics and no lag during offline play, then this game could be really fun. So I bought it and I put it into my computer, it pulled up and I started playing it. From the first time I played it, it lagged and I found the graphics to be... to put it lightly, less than stellar (refer to the title of my review). However, the gameplay is solid enough, and it retains the Lord of the Rings feel enough for it to be given an "okay" rating. Recently, another Lord of the Rings RTS came out (Lord of the Rings: The Battle For Middle-Earth), and I've found it to improve in every aspect on the other game. Much like Warcraft, it's a "build and army and conquer" type of game. However if you like RTS games, I suggest Lord of the Rings: The Battle For Middle-Earth over Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring because of the lag and graphics. So overall, I've found War of the Ring to be mediocre and Battle for Middle-Earth more worth my money, and time as well as yours.

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