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So close, yet So far...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game had so much promise, but they let took it completely to the other end of the spectrum, instead of the micromanaging wich could get time consuming on LOTR2. LOTR3 swings the other way so completely you cannot even decide what type of Army you want.

Types of troops you raise are completely dependant on the lords you install in your land parcels. Not bad If I had an inexhaustible supply of each type to decide what I wanted. Nope, you have what the game gives you and thats it. Worse you couldn't micromanage things even if you wanted to. Then they fubared the combat, whatever you do don't attack a castle, the enemy's troops will hide out on the walkway behind the walls while your troops will mill around in the bottom of the courtyard getting shot full of arrows.

If you like simplistic games this would be the one for you. The only effective gameplay decisions you will ever make are which lord do I install, where should my next army come from and who do I invade next?

Please Read the Reviews

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

OK!!! Here we go i loved lotr2 great game and like everyone else has stated, this is nothing like lotr2. This triology should never have existed. They should have stopped at 2. I really am not going to get into the game and its details very much because it has been talked about over and over again by others. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!! That is all i have to say. I paid $8 on amazon for this and I would have rather thrown that $8 in the fire.

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.

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

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.

So Bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: February 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was looking forward to this game. I absolutely loved Lords of the Realm 2. I can pick it up and even play it today and enjoy it greatly. Part 3 however is awful. All of the fun parts of 2 are gone. The battles are boring, and the graphics are really dated. The game is full of bugs and is just not fun to play. Playing the game once feels repetative. This game has no replay value at all.

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.

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.

1 Twisted piece of crap

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: March 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

ok first reason this sux is vassals those mental servents mess you up 2cd The terrible graphics 3rd is *FRAME BY FRAME MOVEMENT* i mean it i even have 546 mb of ram and you control units in companies not singely and every time a guy dies you get weaker abd weaker then when like 10 die(if you even get that many to control)your whole army flees there are no huge clashes if you want this then just get lords 2 or 1 they are much better also i threw this in my trash 3 hourse after i got it

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.

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