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This game is horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: March 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

After waiting forever for the release and then for it to be delivered to the store, I eagerly installed it on my computer. This game is a high graphic shadow of LOTR II! You have very little input into what is going on. You sit around doing nothing for long periods of time and when you do get into battle, control is very bad. The castle building interface is laughable. I don't know how Sierra did it after having sooo long to develop this game, but the sucked all the fun out of LOTR! And beware, it has crashed on my twice, and I have XP Professional!!

Lords of the Realm 3

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: March 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the biggest disappointment I have ever experienced in purchasing a computer game. The first Lords of the Realm game is perhaps my favorite for its time with the Lords of the Realm 2 game also a great favorite. From the moment you open the box you experience problems with running the game. The graphics are disturbingly poor to the point of distraction. The real problem, however, is the gameplay. After about five hours of intense effort at the first tutorial campaign level, I still could not make any sense of the game and what you were supposed to do. The real time aspect is totally inappropriate for a strategy game of this scope. The combat is buggy, poorly lighted, and very dated in appearance. This is a disaster and a terrible blow to the reputation of "Impressions" games. It might have been better to simply have not released the game and admit the entire "real time" approach for a game such as this was ill conceived. I can not believe they spent two years on this. I would have given this game less than a star if such a rating was available.

Ha! And this game was 4 years in the making! LMAO!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: April 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was happy to see LORII was being made when it was first announced way back in 2001. As soon as I heard the developers were going to defect to the RTS craze, I knew it was a lost cause. There has been more RTS crap churned out than ever before..RTS SUCKS because you don't have time to strategize. It's the same old boring repetitive crap. Yet developers keep making the same garbage.

LORIII was supposed to be realized in christmas of 2002, then spring 2003, then winter 2003, ugg, I can't remember how many times it was delayed. You can tell the project must have been in total chaos.

Word to the game developers...try making a game that actually requires thought and strategy.

After all the delays this crap!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: April 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I cannot believe what they have done.
With the blind purpose of archieving a real time game they have killed Lords of the realm.

Real Strategy needs turns!!!!! Imagine a real time chess, would be pathetic.

Now this game is just moving armies as fast as you can and try to choose the best knights.

The fun of Lords I and II was keeping happy your people while having a huge army.
Now no armies raised, no food problems, no happiness....
It's so sad.

Multiplayer was nice with Lords2 and in Civ3 nobody plays real time, allways simultaneous turns.

I think I'm gonna cry.

Newer not always is better

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: April 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game one month ago, together with "American Conquest Fight Back", if I liked the last one as top of the bunch, LOTR III is bottom.
I'll try to sell my copy, and desperately look for an used copy of the first version.

Not worth even one star

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: April 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the wrst game ever. Over the last few years Sierra has really disappointed me by not producing any decent startegy game. Instead, we get this P.O.S. that barely lets you make any decisions. In the least, LOR III should have improved AI and graphics of LOR II.

20$ price should have been a dead give away, I bought it anyway. 20 minutes later I threw it away, it was just that awful.

Looks cool, no fun to play

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: April 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The A.I. vassels removed what I liked about LOTR II. Also, every time I start the game it takes over 5 minutes to get to main menu because it says it is optimizing all of these maps. I have plenty of disk space and did a full install, all this stuff should already be ready to go on my hard drive . . .right ? ? ? I liked the turn based of II also. Real time doesn't allow me to review my empire and actually make STRATEGIC decisions ! ! The graphics are good, sound also. Can't command a single soldier, the whole company goes apparently. I think I enjoyed the more specific, hands-on county controlling, cows, grain, weapons, rock, wood etc. and warfare of LOTR II. These days, getting $$ back for these games is impossible. I ignored bad reviews thinking that they couldn't possibly be right, since LOTR II was so cool (IMHO).

Definitly a disapointment. Don't wast your money.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: March 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Lords of the Realm II was one of my favorite vidio games ever. I spent hundreds of hours playing it and would probably still be playing it if it still ran on my newer computers. I have been waiting for this game for over a year and preordered it as soon as it became available. I even went out and got a new graphics card to be able to play it.

My expectations were extremely high and LOR III failed me miserably. The battles were extemely buggy and the game play in general was not interesting. Furthermore, the tutorial was poor and UI in general was not very usable.

This is a perfect example of ruining a great 2D game by trying to make it a 3D game. Sierra sacrificed all of the interesting game play of LOR II for the sake of buggy 3D display of battles.

Don't waste your money.

I WANT MY MONEY BACK

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: March 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the worst games to come out in the last 2 years. [...] for trying to keep Vivendi afloat while they went bankrupt. This kind of crap reminds me of the old DOS games but in color.

nothing like lords 2 do not buy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: March 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

they completely changed the intereface and the whole game in general. One of the worst sequels ever

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