Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Pandemic Studios continues its streak of entertaining and successful video games with the newest release of The Lord of the Rings: Conquest. The game excels in the department of good, old fun. The numerous characters to choose from, the eye-catching battle scenes and the seemingly endless enemies will leave any gamer wanting one more troll to take down.
The fun commences right at the get-go; the player selects either the Army of the West or fights alongside Sauron, and either defends the Middle-earth or burns it to the ground. Then, before playing through the eight levels of non-stop action, the participant chooses from four different characters who all have varying specializations: the Warrior (hand-to-hand combat), the Archer (long-distance fighting), the Mage (lightning attacks and healing) and the Scout (speed and invisibility). Heroes, such as Gandolf and Sauron, are also available at certain pre-selected locations throughout the eight levels. Each level represents a major battle in the fight for Middle-earth and the journey to destroy the ring at Mount Doom, so there is a pretty good summary and variety of clips of all three movies.
A flaw of Conquest is remembering all of the battle moves for all of the characters. This can become somewhat irritating considering there are about seven for each individual, but knowing every single move is not crucial to being successful at Conquest.
Conquest is the perfect choice for simple gameplay and excessive—yet intriguing—slaying of Orcs. This is not rocket science and that is the reason Conquest is so engaging.
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