Gamer's Spot

Hello readers!

This is my review of The Lord of The Rings: Conquest, a game that is out for the Xbox360, the PS3, the PC, and the Nintendo DS.

In this Lord of The Rings game, you can select a campaign to play. You can either pick The Rise of Sauron campaign, or the good team campaign. I can’t remember what the good team campaign is called. You don’t play as the main characters; instead, you play as a soldier on that side. There are four classes of soldiers that you can choose and those are: Warrior, Archer, Mage and Scout. My favorite class is either Warrior or Archer because the warriors have really powerful attacks and the Archers shoot very fast.

Warriors have very powerful attacks because there is a bar that shows how much special attack you have left, and then you can power up your sword so it looks like it is on fire and the attacks that it does when it is are much more powerful than normal. The Archers are very good because you can make their arrows turn on fire or poisoned as their special attack and they just shoot very fast. You still have to wait a while after you use their special attack so it has time to recharge. It’s really funny on The Rise of Sauron campaign on the last level when you pick Archer because you have to kill Hobbits and they die in 1 hit pretty much with anything and when you shoot them with an arrow they go flying and look like they’re a rag doll or something because their body swings around like it has no bones.

The Scout class is pretty good too because their special attack lets them turn invisible so you can sneak up behind your enemies and back stab them. Back stabbing them does quite a bit of damage and it usually will kill your enemy in 1 hit, and pretty much all the time it does. The Scout also has something that when you throw it, it explodes and usually kills them in 1 hit. This bomb does much more damage to Ents because it makes them catch on fire, and since they are trees they are very vulnerable to that. It is also really effective when you are being swarmed by Hobbits on the last level on The Rise of Sauron campaign because when you throw it at something and when it hits them, it automatically explodes and when there are a whole bunch of Hobbits in 1 area, it will usually kill them all. The Mage class isn’t very good because their attacks aren’t that great, unless you use their melee attack instead of using their weak magic attack. There are only 2 things that are good about Mages and that is that they can make a shield, protecting the people in it from arrows and other Mages’ attacks, and the Mage can also heal other soldiers, otherwise it would be hard not to die every once in a while. You can level up your classes so that they do more damage or so that they’re just better than they were before.

In the different campaigns you can play, the levels are also different and once you have beaten that campaign, you can choose the level you want to start at. My favorite level on The Rise of Sauron campaign would have to be the last level where you have to kill the Hobbits because it is very funny when they die. Although that level may sound easy, you also have to deal with the Ents that wander around killing your soldiers, and you have to be careful not to get swarmed by the Hobbits because even though they just use tiny little knifes, if you get swarmed they can be quite good, and if you pick the Archer class, you may not think to look behind you or right below you because you wouldn’t expect them to be there, but you’ll notice if they are attacking you because your health bar goes down when they hit you. You also have to watch out for the Hobbit Archers because they still shoot really fast and they are hard to see, but once you spot them they die easily like all other Hobbits do.

The hardest level on the Rise of Sauron campaign is when you go to the place that has the Elves. The Elves are very powerful and their Archers are really good. Their Mages are even a little good too. The easiest people to kill on this level would be the Elf Grunts(each team has Grunts to help them out except for the Hobbits; they are very easy to kill and die in 1 hit pretty much with anything like Hobbits do). In The Elf place you have to fight 2 bosses and they are Legolas and the Elf King. They are both very hard to kill, and Legolas is probably the best Archer in the game. I think the Elf King has a sword, but I can’t exactly remember. When you are fighting them I suggest that you should try being a Scout so you can turn invisible and back stab the Elf King or Legolas. If you choose Archer to fight them, make sure you are in a spot that is well hidden so Legolas can’t find you and shoot you.

The funnest level on the good team campaign would probably be the battle on Pellinor Fields because there are these large elephant-like creatures that you can climb up and kill. I only played this game on the PS3, so I’m not sure how you would climb up them on other systems. How you climb up them on the PS3 version is like this. When you get close enough to one of the elephant’s front legs, it will tell you to push a button so you can start climbing it. While you are climbing it, it will tell you to push other buttons so you can stay on it and make it up to the head. Once you are on it’s head, it will tell you to push another button to kill it.

This is a really great game, and if you are a fan of The Lord of The Rings, you will most likely love this game. It’s not that much like any of the other Lord of The Rings games because you play as a soldier instead of the main characters, but if you liked any of the other games you will probably like this one a lot too. Although this game is really good, it gets repetitive after a while, and the enemy A.I. is very bad, but sometimes bad enemy A.I. can actually be pretty funny because your enemies don’t even bother coming up to you. If you have the PS3 version though, it’ll still be fun because you can try to get all of the trophies. I am giving this game a 10/10.