Lord of the Rings: Conquest (Playstation 3)

This game is terrific! It is easy to use but hard to advance. It takes a lot of thinking skills as well. It is fast paced and action galore.

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This game has it's great moments. But unfortunately, it's frustrating moments are too frequent and too close between.

Pro's

-Beautifully reconstructed environments from the movies

-Detailed character rendering

-Fun multi-player scenarios

-Mostly balanced class system

Con's

-No split-screen multiplayer online(ie, only one person can play multiplayer online at a time on 1 system)

-Frequent game freezes in split-screen cooperative 2 player mode

-Absolutely terrible voice acting

-No character customization

-No effort to make the single-player campaign story compelling

-Horribly long online respawning times

Even though I like a lot about this game, I eventually sold it because the online game play became really annoying. You will find that people spend too much time knocked down on the ground and too much time waiting to spawn. It's worth a try, but it's not worth buying at full price. Plus, with the games dismal reception by critics(and probably dismal sales), I doubt you will see developers releasing more add-ons or fixing the current problems.

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I purchased this game new from Wal-Mart as its now just twenty bucks new most places. I played it extensively one night and sold it quickly back on Amazon the next week. Here are the issues I had with the game. The gameplay is way to Arcade like in feel. Your archer might as well be using a machine gun as he mows down people. The combo moves for the other characters are like something out of fighting game rather an RPG. I guess the biggest thing is you buy a licensed game to recreate the movies and there is just such a disconnect between the license and this game. I played all three gamecube games and think they are far superior in every way. If you also have a Wii pick up these games as they are sub 10 bucks on Amazon and are really awesome. Also the camera is kind of weird and made me feel sick which I normally dont get. Sorry to be a downer but buy heavenly sword of the god of war combo.

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