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WHY MUST STUPID PEOPLE RATE A GAME NOT OUT

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: May 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

THIS IS TOWARD Pierre, games not out and you give it a five star rating.PLEAAAAASSSSEEE!!!!. Get the real deal not a beta version before rating, and dont rate it off of old games.

Huge disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: March 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I pre-ordered this game the day it was posted based on how much fun Lords Of The Realm 2 was. Unfortunately, everything that made LOTR2 fun wasn't in here. The territory values, the farming, the battle sounds...all gone. The siege system is laughable, and the AI for both your own unit movements and the enemy movements are terrible.

Now I know why the price was $19.99...not worth it.

There is one big problem with this game.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: March 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It is real time and not turned based. I think if this game was turned based it would be a fine game. In my opinon, that actuall fighting has improved from Lords of the realms 2. The econemy and county managment has gotten worse, but if you got to fight battles that wouldn't matter so much. The thing is that you never can really fight the battles. Since the whole thing is real time, when you zoom in on a battle you can't tell what is going on elsewhere, so you generally just have to leave the battles to the computer. In the end, you end up just building up armies to the maximum size, telling them to attack another castle, wait until they win, and place the maximum amount of knights possible in the fiefs, plus the minimum number of serfs needed. With your new troops you build another huge army. This just continues until you have more armys than you know what to do with and win. Don't get me wrong, this game is okay for a while, and when you only have a few territories it is fun since you can actually fight battles. I played this for a few days, but it got borring quickly.

Buyer beware!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: March 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you loved playing LOTR2, than stay away from this one. All the best elements are gone, all you can do is appoint people to oversee your lands and than sit back and watch your armies move slowly across the map. Gets pretty boring after 10 minutes. I am taking this sorry excuse for a game back to the store. Worst 20 dollars i have ever spent!

what a mess

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: March 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

What a huge mess. I was so excited last Christmas when I realized that they were making a third installment to Lords of the Realm. I checked its webpage almost daily. I could hardly wait to play a new and improved version of a game they made in 1996 that was flat out terrific. I even drove to a town 30 miles away in hopes of getting it on its supposed release day of March 16 (it actually was released on the 17th). I bought the strategy guide and a new video card in order to get it to work. Never in my gameplaying life have I ever felt so fleeced.
They took a perfectly good turn based strategy game and turned into colossal RTS mess. WHY!!??!!?? It has three platforms(strategic, political, and battle) that are all running at the same time. You can't spend enough time in any of them for fear that something will happen without your kwowledge. There is just too much going on at the same time. Now I thought the idea of regions divided into parcels and estate parcels was interesting, but i realized that you have to concure the estate parcel to do any good. You simply ignore the other parcels. Now i read the strategy guide and I will say that this game had loads of potential. Agents such as thieves, blacksmithes, corrupt priests, etc. Tons of new soldier types. All is wasted in order to try to make this more multiplayer savvy. Had they simply tried to improve on the first two versions, we might have had an awesome TBS game. I mean, this is what 8 years of ideas gets us??!! Med. total war is the closes thing I can think of to what I was hoping for. It won Game of the Year in 2002, AND IT IS TURN BASED!!!! I should have listened to the alarms that were going off when the price of the game dropped from $50 to $20. If you loved LOTR II, stay as far away from this one as you can.

What were they smoking?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: April 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I wish i could give this game negative stars that is how poorly the makers did with this. i can help but wonder if they just decided to scrap production and rush the release with this mess of a program they call a game... Save your money like the last guy said and play lords of the realm 2. verry dissapointed and verry frustraited. i waited months for this release and what a let down. all you do is move a man here or there and thats is about it. no building no real managing nothing but an occasional battle. well let me tell you the battles in lords 2 are far more better than the mess in 3 sorly dissapointed. i think they should have paid me to buy that game

RUN AWAY RUN AWAY!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: July 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Perhaps they should have built a rather large badger. This is a huge disappointment and the original version was way way way better than this. You have amazingly little control and there is amazingly little strategy for a strategy game. Get Medieval Total War if youre looking for Dark Ages fun. I miss my $20.

My Dust Collection

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: March 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Realm 3 is an average game at best. Although ther is more interactive options and a much better 3D engine to this game, I have apparently become bored with it quickly, after finishing the tutorial and beginning play, it is already sitting in it's jewel case collecting dust with the rest of my "average" games. I've found myself playing Realm 2 more than this game.

The setup is there, and the competetive spirit is there, but there is little challenge except in combat. I prefer a game more based on Realm 2, where you have to battle not only human-to-human elements but elements more inclined with proper farming, mining, and such. The simplified task of assigning Nights or Peasants as one singular town gives no strategy outside the realm of battle. Strategy should be included in all aspects across the board, not just in combat.

Something tells me with this mediocre follow-up, we won't be seeing Lords 4 anytime soon, if at all.

What everyone else said, plus........

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: June 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It would appear that Sierra went out of their way to make this game as ugly and unappealing as possible. The game features many portraits of horrendously hideous individuals, and the exaggeratted expressions of the cartoonish soldiers are distinctly unattractive. This may have been acceptable if there was a solid game lurking beneath the loathesome exterior, but there isn't. Imagine my surprise when I began the William the Conquerer campaign and saw an enemy army approaching my lands. I dispatched my own army to deal with it, right clicked on it and waited for the battle to load up, a la Total War. Imagine my surprise when the two armies duked it out on the strategy screen and I was informed that my army had defeated the enemy. There was no choice as to whether the computer calculated the results, or if I would rather command the troops myself.

Another detail that may be petty, but was still highly annoying: the sound effect of the marching sounds like a team of elderly people making their way through a bowl of crunchy cereal with a single tooth to share between them. This may not seem like a big deal, but when this is constantly being piped into your ears via headphones, you want to tear them off and stomp them into a fine powder. The voices of the units are also despicable. The dopey, cartoony voice of the Peon from Warcraft 2 has been taken, amplified to the nth degree, and injected with an added dose of caulk-your-eardrums irritation factor.

Best to stay away, I think.

Don't Listen to That Guy from Notre Dame!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: April 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

HAS TO BE ONE OF THE WORST GAMES OF THE YEAR!!

Lords III is a total goatrope- that guy who reviewed it from
Notre Dame had no idea what he was talking about. Merchants
have nothing to do with anything. You are not a vassal,
the vassals are the parade of idiots you're given to lead
your armies. Allowing the rest of your nation to go into
the crapper for the joy of actually getting to run one of
your own battles was a ridiculous concept that should have
been left on the cutting room floor.

Well- now we know why this POS was delayed for so long-
because THEY HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO DO.. and never figured it out!
Ever heard of "All things come to those who wait.."?
Well, keep waiting and save yourself the money.
When the UPS guy came to my house to drop this piece of junk off
I should have sent him packing with it back to Amazon.
LOR II- Awesome! Lords of Magic- playable, even fun.
LOR III? Honestly- don't even bother..

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