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Waste of Money and a Test on my Patience.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 21
Date: January 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Pure garbage. Your $50 would be better spent on a Knights of the Old Republic or any other software where the developers actually removed the bugs before shipping. This game is full of bugs and crashes frequently. My computer is a P4 2.6 Ghrtz with a top-of-the-line NVIDIA (128mb) video card, so I know the crashes weren't the result of my system. If you decide to play, be sure to save every 3 minutes and be prepared to replay your game over and over again. There is an update available, but it didn't seem to matter... the crashes were all the more frequent after the update, especially in Fangorn Forest.

Gandalf can't do anything to make this game better

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 23
Date: October 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Alright, so the Lord of the Rings series is a big francise. We got movies, video games, costumes, websites going on and Battle for Middle earth which looks awesome. Now War of the Rings, I hate the grapics first and foremost. I mean they were absolutely terrible! Then, no original voiceovers from the movie! Sierra was to busy writin' a "great" review for the release. But whats the point if we don't have good voiceovers. I must admit, that some of the units for all of them were neat like the trolls and Rohan horsemen, and I loved the blood and powers you could choose. But, I hated the opening movie and the storyline. It was hardly even like the movie! In short terms, I hated War of the Ring for the PC!

-Game Dude

Not worth the price!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 17
Date: June 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game is not worth the pirce! the campagin is comepletly random battles jumping from third age 1000s to thirda ge 3000s, the population limit is tiny! the troll stonehurlers are as a strong as a gondor swordsman! the riders of rohan have flails! no mumakil? dwraves?dwarves aren't fighinting for the free peoples!

Do you like cubism?If you don't, buy a dead hampster instead

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 18
Date: May 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Well, for all of you cube-fanatics, this is a must get. The graphics are HORRIBLE!!! Oh-no, the rohan rider's head is square!!! He has been deformed at birth!!! Wait, what was that? Oh, my mistake, his head is square on purpose (don't ask me why). Nothing in this game is round at all. Blizzard-nerds were too busy drawing the cover to actually make good graphics. Poor little Bilizzard entertainment was too poor to come up with money to get a permit to use New Line Cinema's character photos. So instead they come up with all of these square representations instead.

WASTE OF MONEY. . .

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 30
Date: February 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you do not have an updated system, meaning the top of the line. Such as memory, hard drive, video card, etc. Then this game will not play on your computer. It didn't play on mine.

Disappointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: June 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

You need the latest hardware for this game. I've P4 1.4 GHz with 256M of memory - it is not enough. Motions are jerky - 20 frames per second. Graphics are lacking in details and appears to be 2D animated figures. I expected this game to be like Age of Mythology or AOE.

The software piracy routine sometimes prevents the game from booting. Takes a while to boot up not sure if it's buffering the startup movies or something.

I started reading the books in 1972 and never stopped...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 38
Date: December 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well,in this age of games like Morrow Wind,Final Fantasy XI,Dungeon Siege etc,and given the history (and hype)surrounding Hollywoods destruction of a wonderful piece of work,(Tolkiens writing)you would think that this game would be incredible.You would be wrong.This game is played exactly like a certain game by Microsoft that comes standard with Windows XP Home.The main difference being that this game seems like it was done by Disney,both the graphics and the dialog,and that isnt a compliment.In the first tutorial you are faced with a Cave Troll,and an Elf.They are your instructors.I will call the cave troll Donald,and the elf Goofy.Any resemblance to those characters in the Trilogy is lost on me.You are instructed to "gather resources" and build buildings,You are shown how to make workers to do that.You build a building and it produces "Swordsmen of Gondor",right click on the over-view map on the red dot that is the enemy and as long as you made a bunch of swordsmen,they go and kill the enemy.I also received Neverwinter Nights Gold last week.Comparing the two games is like comparing Pac Man and Dungeon Siege.They both have challenges inherent to play.Pac Man can be a challange(?)as can Dungeon Siege.I prefer Dungeon.Out of all of the games I mentioned,I would put my money in Neverwinter Gold,or wait a month(?)for Dungeon Siege II.Now,this game does have its merits I suppose,if you like Pac Man,but if you really want a game that does what this one claims to,and if you like Dungeon Siege,most importantly,if you know who said"never meddle in the affairs of wizards,for they are subtle and quick to anger",then installing this game will be a definite disappointment.Vivendi should heed the latter quote,and stay out of the affairs of thier betters...

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

A disapointment for a LotR game...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 19
Date: January 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

To start with, I am rating this as I could judge from playing the demo. My computer is lagging behind the recommended requirements now (I only have a nVidia TNT2), but I really couldn't even play with the lag I experienced. Vivendi is supposed to make its Lord of the Rings games based on the book. However, the first dwarf mission, finding a secret weapon from the Battle of the Five Armies, is pure crap. If it didn't have multiplayer, I would have given it one star. War of the Ring doesn't even have a map editor. This game is too similar to other RTS games, and doesn't match up to them in features.

BIG LETDOWN

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: June 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is not even close to what it could have and should have been. If you check out the reviews in any of the major gaming magazines they will tell you the same. Unfortuneately, I purchased the game before I read any of those reviews. The game runs on a two year old battle realms engine that is badly outdated, thus, the gameplay and overall experience does not even compare to that of Warcraft 3, or command and conquer games. The charchters are severely lacking in detail and this game is overall a big letdown, buy warcraft 3 instead!!!

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