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33 Reviews deleted again?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: March 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The reviews of many unahappy gamers seem to have gone missing yet once again.

If you are a fan of the first 2 Lords of the Realm games you will be very dissapointed with this game. The fun aspects of the turn based strategy game have been reduced or completely cut and the real time strategy is buggy, slow, tedious and boring. Even though the price has been cut in half, I would not play this game past a few minutes if it were free.

Horrible!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: March 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I loved LotR 1 and 2, but this game is terrible. I don't know what they were thinking, or how it could have taken three years to make this game, but it isn't worth playing. The game focuses on the battle side, meaning that there is no management side at all. Even the battle side of the game is poorly done. Avoid this game at all costs. I am trying to get my money back just on principle.

One of the worst games I ever played!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: March 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Lord of the Realm I and II kick ass compared to this game. I couldn't even get into it. I gave it a chance because I waited so long for this release. If this was any other games I would of dropped it in the first 15 minutes. Luckily, I didn't pay for it and tested it out first. I knew something was up when it dropped from $50 to $20 and was delayed for years. Do not buy! total rip off! I could make a game better than this.

Unfortunately not what I expected

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: April 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Of course being a LOTR II fan, I had high hopes for this game. After a few hours of play and being really bored, I thought to myself, "maybe I just don't know how to play this game yet." Don't bother reading the manual, it doesn't help at all, it just gives a real vague overview of the game.

Now after reading other's reviews I know I wasn't alone in being rather unexcited about this game. I give it two stars because I like the battle scenes a lot more than in the first game. But that is it. It's true that the land management being gone makes this game a lot more boring. It just feels like the player places their vassals and occasionally fight some battles with armies moving slower than molasses and spends a lot of time just waiting. Don't bother with this one.

You've got to wonder..

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 11 / 19
Date: March 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

You've got to wonder about any game that has been in development in since late 2001 and does not get released until March 2004. You've also have to be concerned about the fact that its release date was constantly pushed back and that its price fell from $49.99 to $19.99. Finally, why is this game being released so quietly and with so little fanfare. The official webpage is eeriely silent and more omniously a patch was released even before the game shipped.

These are troubling questions and lead to the ultimate question: what is wrong with this game? I am going to wait until I read some reviews by non-fanboy reviewers before I consider purchasing. (A fanboy is someone who spends his time on the official webpage, salivating at every nugget of info dropped to him by the developers, and is so blinded in his loyalty to the product that he ignores glaring problems. A fanboy is also someone who writes glowing five star reviews on Amazon.com for a game that he has not played yet.)

20 bucks of junk...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: March 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I had such high hopes for this title. The first two LOTR games were pure gaming goodness. The first warning sign was the drastic reduction of price from 49.99 to 19.99. Sierra gave up on this one and released a piece of junk and they know it.

Almost all the fun aspects of the earlier games have been removed and you are left with a boring, somewhat buggy, cheap game that isnt worth playing. Shame on Sierra.

Never buy a game without playing the demo first!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: March 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I had my doubts about buying a game whose MSRP dropped from $50 to $20 vitually overnight. Unfortunately, I bought it anyway assuming since the earlier games were so much fun this one must be too. I've played bad games before but this time I really feel like I was had.

Zero stars.

Horrible game...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: October 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I didn't believe the awful reviews this game recieved. Unfortunately I just wasted 20 dollars. Please DO NOT BUY this game. It really irks me that other people will waste their money on this title. The gameplay is incredibly slow. It is sometimes impossible to beat the AI because of the slow speed and endless battles. The game has features worse than titles from the 90s. One of the absolutely worst I have ever played. I can hardly express how truly terrible this game is.

Disgracefull

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: August 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game looks like it was made by high school kids, it bares little resemblance to it's glorious predicessors. This "game" involves little more than staring at the computer screen wondering what is going on and what your supposed to do. You quickly learn that very little is going on and there is nothing for you to do. That's the worst part, the manual tells you virtually nothing, the game teaches you even less and then it plays on it's own at snails pace.

Just avoid this like the plague.

Terrible, just plain terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Not only did I go out to try and find the game when it came out but when i had to buy it online i had it expressed shipped. I would have to say that it is the most disappointing game I have ever played. If you are expecting anything close to lords II you will be extremely sadened when you play this. I did not even play long enough to find the bugs that people claim to have in the battles. After going through the poor tutorial i am surprised anyone made it to the actual gameplay. If you are considering buying this please just dont waste your money, take the memories you have of lords II and enjoy them, because lords III will just ruin them.

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