It's been out for a few days now, but I found out about the demo about an hour ago. It's only on PSN so only PS3 owners can try out LOTR: Conquest. Think Star Wars: Battlefront in the Lord of the Rings universe and you have this. Only...with a crappy camera...and unbalanced multiplayer, oh wait, that last one was in Battlefront too.
So LOTR: Conquest was honestly at the top of my most anticipated because...well...I still play Battlefront 2 to this day and I love the gameplay. The tutorial was great for Conquest, really showing the game off and the huge amounts of special abilities each class has. I played through the tutorial, kicked Sauron's ass while playing as Isilidur, and was about to jump into some more single-player. Well...there isn't any, it's just the tutorial.
Well, it's a demo, I guess. So I see that there's some multiplayer in the demo, try that out and...
THE MULTIPLAYER IS TOTAL SHIT!
So you think you're expecting to see 16 players with a large number of NPCs on the battlefield. NOPE! It's only 8 vs. 8. They advertise epic battles.I didn't really expect to have 8 orcs come to the Shire and kick some ass. I expected much more.
Aside from the extremely underwhelming "epicness," the camera is literally right behind your back. While this was the same in Battlefront, you could still see a motherfucker coming up behind you so you could defend yourself. Not here. No, you better turn around every five seconds because some guy can just come out of no where and just beat the crap out of you with whatever he's got.
That's another thing. The scout class. It's pretty cool to BE the scout class, but not so much to die from it. Adding on to the paragraph above, scouts can come up behind you and kill you in one hit. One hit. Fuck. That. Shit.
There's no lock-on system. What this means is, that if your a warrior, and your about to fight against another warrior, you guys practically just run around in circles smashing the god damn square button praying to god you hit him first.
Apart from the multiplayer, the single player was a lot of fun. Pretty much what I expected. I shouldn't be complaining too much as to this day whenever I play Battlefront 2, I NEVER play online. I guess it'll still be the same for this game.
NOTE: Sorry for the wall of text. Anyone know how to get rid of the weird ass spacing you get when you type up a blog on a Mac? I had to boot up my Vista processor just to post this cause Leopard had all this weird spacing.
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Meh this game is probably going to go ignored.
I feel the same kinda. I loved Battlefront II, and was looking foward to this game and it just doesn't have that magic, not too mention the gameplay itself was just a big turn off.
Although the game will be meh, it was refreshing to see some medieval-online-action on the ps3. Everything on the fucking console is a damned shooter and I need something RPG-like that doesn't include guns.
They advertise epic battles.I didn't really expect to have 8 orcs come to the Shire and kick some ass.
I don't know why but this had me LMAO, I agree though.
The demo was disappointing...I kept getting in matches in the shire that had 2 Ents running around killing every orc and they kept healing up....
I quit the demo after a night of searching for something to like.....
This makes me sad. I was really hoping it would turn out awesome. Has the demo hit 360 yet? I haven't turned on my system for the last few days.
Nah, the demo is only on PSN atm.
Personally, I kinda liked the demo but can understand anyone who doesn't. One thing I hated was that ALL the battles ended within 4-5 minutes...as said before, that's not "epic". The score limit better be adjustable in the full game. If you're desperate to play something different you may get some fun out of it, otherwise...well..I guess you got to be a die-hard LOTR fan.
Shit. I want this to be really good so bad. I haven't heard anything good so far. I probably should download the demo soon.
watching this be played made me sad. it made me not want to play it when it comes out.