Lord of the Rings: Conquest

From Joystiq:

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Pandemic announces Lord of the Rings: Conquest

by Justin McElroy May 8th 2008 7:50AM
Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Strategy

Just how many people are working at Pandemic anyway? Not only are they still finishing up Mercenaries 2: World in Flames and (maybe) making the next Batman game, but news has come from IGN today that that Lord of the Rings game the studio is currently crafting (called Lord of the Rings: Conquest) will arrive on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC this fall. By their own admission it's an unabashed mash-up of the fantasy property and their own Star Wars Battlefront (read: huge fights in Middle Earth).

The game will incorporate every battle from the movies, a few from the books and some from whole cloth. Conquest's large scale battles, which will sport up to 150 characters on screen at once, can be waged by eight players online against one another or with four players teaming-up on the main campaign online or via split screen. Frankly, we got a little burnt out on Lord of the Rings games when a glut of them arrived with Peter Jackson's films. But this sounds like the kind of meaty experience that justifies a return to Middle Earth.

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Ugh, another battlefront type game, and with LOR characters? Pass.

FIGHT CARDBOARD CUTOUT VERSIONS OF YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTERS!

First time I saw a Star Wars Battlefront game in person was at some Siggraph "Alienware" booth, where they had it networked.

I really felt bad for them.

8 player online multiplayer? Even the old battlefront games had 32 to 64.

Well, I'm down. It'd be nice if it the designs didn't overly-resemble the films, though.

I'll play it. Wish it would have been a Trilogy next gen game like the action games on xbox and PS2. Those were actually good imo.


Use the Howard Shore movie score please. Thanks.

Demos are up on both PS3 and 360 now. If you enjoyed Battlefront, I don't see how you can't like this. If you didn't like Battlefront, I can only pity you.

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Originally Posted by AaronChance

Demos are up on both PS3 and 360 now. If you enjoyed Battlefront, I don't see how you can't like this. If you didn't like Battlefront, I can only pity you.

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Thanks for the heads up. I was wondering what happened to this game.

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Originally Posted by AaronChance

Demos are up on both PS3 and 360 now. If you enjoyed Battlefront, I don't see how you can't like this. If you didn't like Battlefront, I can only pity you.

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Seriously?

Battlefront is pretty much the worst game ever, people who like it love AIDS.