I have to admit that Pandemic's Lord of the Rings: Conquest is one of those games that is completely and totally off my radar. So when I found out last weekend that a demo for the game was available on PlayStation Network, I was really surprised. Why didn't I know about this? Isn't it my job to know this crap?
Well, now that same demo is available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, and I'm totally in the loop, thanks to Mr. Professor Major Sergeant Larry Hyrb Nelson. The demo is available in all regions and is "free" provided you have an Xbox LIVE Gold account. So I guess that means, technically, it's not totally free. But you get the idea.
Lord of the Rings: Conquest takes the Tolkien mythos and dumps it into a Battlefront-like world of team-on-team multiplayer combat. The pictures of the game are pretty, but may not tell the whole story, so I'm interested in getting my hands dirty with the demo.
Let us know if you want to play, and we'll try to get a few Dtoid staff members on board for a quick game this afternoon. We'll take any excuse to stop writing about games so we can play them. Hit us up in the comments so we can figure it out.
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9:30 AM on 01.02.2009
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Its Lord of the Rings and not an RTS. Sure I'll bite. Download in progress!
No real tactics of any kind that I noticed. Pretty much pushing each other back and forth and who ever sucks the most loses.
ill be downloading it before lunch
Gamertag is same as my username.
GT: Elitechief27
Gamertag: "Ten Darculas"
GT - Mr Ovenstuffer (I work at a bakery...)
This game is as generic as it gets people. Be warned.
Yeah, I tried out the single-player tutorial level and it was ... interesting.
To those who passed along their gamertags, I'll add you on XBL closer to 3pm EST. So far, Dtoid Staff on board is Jim Sterling, Brad Nicholson, and myself. As you can tell, we're having a busy day ...
Not really.
GT: BL00DW0RTH (all zeros)
I would be up for some LOTR fun, but not till this evening.
Gamertag is TheGreatMango.
Who'd have thunk?
Night would probably be better for most, but since a few people are off from work/school today and we are astoundingly bored around "the office," afternoon gameplay it is. (Also, I personally won't be able to play tonight.)
Friday Night Fights can dig into this one, I suppose. It's something to do, I suppose.
Gamertag: garison25
Can't wait!
Gamertag : Wineblood
@BigPopaGamer:
Keeping that in mind!
A group of us played earlier, and I don't think anyone enjoyed themselves. I thought the experience felt kind of sloppy across the board (controls, visuals, gameplay balance). That and because it was a demo, we couldn't create our own room and kept getting booted from the EA servers. :(
Seriously -- NOT COOL. And the Troll was no picnic, either. Evil cheats. Confirmed.
Poor balancing, really bad maps. I noticed that in the castle map (Minas Tirith I think) there were invisible walls, o'look a stair case I'll just go up there and........what??. Come on I'm in a map surrounded by walla and a can't jump on wall, ledges or go up stairs. And the other map (the shire or farm A) is just as bad, there's a river.... its a foot deep brook no chanellege for a knight.....shit you die.
I'm going to give it a miss, wait battlefront III :)
The controls do feel kind of sloppy at times, but (except for the scout maybe) I found it pretty well balanced.
Anyway: I liked it.
Didn't Battlefront 3 just get canned?
I heard that Rebellion(the ones who made the PSP Battlefront) picked it up, so one can only hope that they make it like classic Battlefront.
BRING BACK PRONE