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Fight the epic battles of Middle-earth in the service of Good or Evil in The Lord of the Rings: Conquest. With a vast array of character types, heroes, mounts, siege equipment, and much more at your disposal, how you fight and how you win is your choice.



  • Good and Evil campaigns: Experience eight epic battles from the films as the heroes of Middle-earth, then answer the question: "What if Sauron stopped Frodo from destroying the One Ring?" Find out by playing through nine battles from the Evil side on your quest to destroy the forces of Good.
  • Character class system: Different characters can perform melee and ranged combat, such as Warriors and Archers, as well as support and specialty classes, such as Mages and Scouts.
  • LOTR heroes, mounts, and equipment: The battlefield comes to life with heroes, horses, wargs, oliphaunts, catapults, balistas, cave trolls, and more.
  • Classic LOTR locations: Jump into epic battles across Pelennor Fields, Helm's Deep, Minas Tirith, The Black Gate, and, yes -- even the Shire.
  • Split-screen action: Grab up to three other friends and play either cooperatively or competitively in the same room.
  • Online battle: Up to 16 players can connect online and step into these epic Lord of the Rings battles, or up to four players can tackle the campaign together online.
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US, May 8, 2008 - It seems that no matter how many high-profile titles Pandemic has under its wing, there's something else there that we haven't heard about yet. Case in point - The Lord of the Rings: Conquest, the studio's semi-spiritual sequel to its Star Wars: Battlefront work. The game will allow players to jump into any battle seen in the films, as well as some extras, and let you play out the battle any way you see fit.

Conquest will let players take control of many of the characters and creatures from the series and pit them on any of the franchise's famous battlefields. From Cave-trolls to Oliphaunts to the Balrog and even Sauron, practically the entire universe will be available for battle with up to 150 characters on-screen at any one time. Up to 16 players will be able to clash online, with four players able to play cooperatively through the main campaign either online or via four-player split-screen. And with two distinct campaigns to play through, including an original take on what would happen if Sauron regained control of the One Ring, Pandemic promises plenty of scenarios to wage battle through.

"Our Pandemic Studios creative teams have years of expertise bringing giant battlefields to life," says Andrew Goldman, Pandemic Studios co-founder and general manager. "We've always wanted to harness our experience in a fantasy universe with warriors, archers, mages and castle sieges. Of course, there is truly no better fantasy world to recreate than the enormity of 'The Lord of the Rings' realm."

"We'll freely admit that we're rabid fans of The Lord of the Rings fantasy," says Josh Resnick, co-founder and general manager at Pandemic Studios. "Our experience creating massive, rich, action-packed games means that The Lord of the Rings: Conquest will give fans exactly what they want: full control of the blade, bow and magic to fight its epic battles any way they want – even if they choose to play from the evil side."

The Lord of the Rings: Conquest is set for release in the fall of 2008 and will hit the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.
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http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/872/872391p1.html


Here's an interview with the director of the game:

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/872/872403p1.html

I want this now!! :drool:
 
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fall 08 this my most anticipated game! i have middle earth 2 on 360 and it rocked but then my 360 scratch the disc in a circle so i am gonna wait for this to come up, will trade thatin to gs and put the credit towards this.
 
[quote name='Episcopa']fall 08 this my most anticipated game! i have middle earth 2 on 360 and it rocked but then my 360 scratch the disc in a circle so i am gonna wait for this to come up, will trade thatin to gs and put the credit towards this.[/quote]

This hurts my brain.

Please learn to spell.
 
I was so excited about this when it was announced but had completely forgotten about it until I saw a heads up about it on theonering.net last night. G4 did an extended hands-on recently with one of the developers, and the game looks/sounds fantastic. Here's the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEi7...8/12/09/30764-lotr-conquest-gameplay-footage/

Multiplayer sounds promising, as do the unlockable characters (you can play as a frickin' balrog or even an oliphant). The awesome news is it even appears to include "The Scouring of the Shire" portion from the books (but excised from the films), which is how they are able to have a battle in Hobbiton. Playing as a balrog stomping through the Shire is so wrong, and yet so right.
 
i heard you beat the game as the good guys... then you start as the bad guys and pretend frodo never destroyed the ring
 
I'm going to download this tomorrow morning (as i'm not home right now) but it looks good. I was a huge fan of Star Wars Battlefront on the original Xbox, and Lord of the Rings is a solid franchise.

This could be the first good game of the year (it's out in two weeks I believe?)
 
Pretty good demo, reminded me a lot of the Star Wars Battlefront series, which was always one of my favs.

One thing I did notice is the archers seem to fire their bows a bit to fast, kind of like they have a machine gun powered bow.
 
Holy crap.... This sounds sick and sounds like it will win me over. *drools*.

I'm going to be Downloading the Demo tonight and most likely playing it tonight. Hopefully this isn't a Limited Edition Demo like Left 4 Dead.
 
I just finished playing the demo and I am very impressed. I loved the Star Wars Battlefront series on the original Xbox so anything remotely similar to that I approach with open arms. The training mission in single player was very good and got me back into the Battlefront mind set straight away and in no time I was running around cutting up orks and firing arrows.

The mutliplayer features two maps and takes place in the Minas Tirith and the other the Shire. It plays similarly to the single player just with 15 other people running around with you! It was alot of fun and I liked trying out each of the classes.

Graphics aren't that great but passable, gameplay was fun and not much lag while playing online. The music however is really good, I haven't seen the trilogy in a long time but I want to rewatch them right now. Took me straight back to the films and a joy to listen to.

One of my favourite moments was on multiplayer in the Shire, I was firing down a little Hobbit archer when out of nowhere a ork scout came in from behind and slit his throat; stealing my kill but doing it in the coolest way possible.

This is probably a day one purchase for me, I have a £20 GAME gift card so i'll only end up paying around £20 cash for it.

Definitely recommend downloading and giving it a try.
 
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[quote name='dkreegz515']day one buy for me if theres a deal of less than 60...[/QUOTE]

can be had for $57 on amazon

i'm gonna preorder at gamestop and get the mini sword
 
I'm not a LoTR fan, or a Battlefront fan.. but I really enjoyed playing this demo. First starting out, it was kind of meh (during training), but then with other classes, it start to get more fun.

Then, I took it online with a buddy of mine, and had a load of fun. Some of the things seemed kind of glitchy though, like the combat seems very clunky, atleast with how the camera aims (with better camera aiming, I'm sure combat would be much better).

Some things, like the Archer, seem way to over-powered as-well. I got killed many times, in one shot, not long after spawning, from an Archer all the way across the map. I've also gotten arched on horse-back, by 1-hit kills, also from across the map.

The Mage can also pretty much get you in a non-stop combo to kill you when they hit you once, you really don't have any chance to fight back, or escape, unless you're lucky and a teammate saves you.

Otherwise, besides those complaints, I had alot of fun playing. I went in expecting nothing, and came out pretty happy that I gave it a chance. Definitely a rental.
 
Remember this is just a Demo, but most likely this will be the game you see when it releases. The game could change, so maybe the graphics could be improved, but most likely not. Pandemic has made some pretty good games, examples: Star Wars Battlefront, Mercenaries (that's really all that comes to mind for me though).

I'll be looking forward to this game, and I have yet to play the demo. :( But I have it downloaded and it's ready to be played. Most likely the multiplayer aspect will last for a week or so.
 
I've played the demo online and the only thing I can say is, I do hope they will be fixing the bugs, and hopefully making the servers less laggy.

I was playing and it was pretty awesome, except for some things on multiplayer. It was pretty laggy, but that's to be expected of a demo and tons of people playing on the Xbox Live server, and there's the giant rape you get when you are on the ground.
If you fall down in the game, you are going to get raped majorly. You can't even get up. :p

I'm not trying to complain, it's just these are some issues I'm experiencing with the multiplayer, but like I said it's to be expected.

I do hope in the final game there are more then 4 classes to play as, maybe that's a good number I'm not to sure about that.

On another note: Pandemic please get us Star Wars Battlefront 3 for the 360! I know they were working on Mercenaries 2, and stuff. Now let's pray and hope for Star Wars Battlefront 3.
 
Played the demo, couldn't get into it. Seemed very glitchy and the fighting moves were really weak, graphics were also pretty weak. Overall, I'm going to pass.
 
Ehh yeah. The game is just eh. Didn't Mercenaries 2 just come out not to long ago? I bet they've only worked on this for like 4-5 months, unless they have two different development teams. :p

I think they have a long way to go with this game, and sadly it's being released soon. :p

All in all it's a game that's very buggy and glitchy, and people will continue to play it online.
 
I've played Battlefront on the PC so I kinda knew what to expect. I like it. Yeah, the graphics are not the greatest....but I personally don't make a decision to purchase or not based solely on graphics. I had a lot of fun with it. Didn't notice any lag, and was a lot of fun to play.
 
Put me in the "thumbs up" camp. The demo felt a little limited (in the tutorial I kept wanting to run into areas it wasn't ready to let me into... "Hey, what's going on over there?") and some classes were easier to play with than others, but overall I enjoyed it. The warrior and archer seemed more manageable and fun, while the mage was difficult to use effectively and the scout was downright frustrating (although at one point I got the scout to climb onto the back of a cave troll and start stabbing him, which made me want to explore that class more).

The online multiplayer seemed to work pretty well, though it felt a little too chaotic and seemed like I was dying way too fast way too often. That took some of the fun out of things, but I chalked a lot of that up to my own suckiness. Plus, how were people playing as cave trolls and ents and Nazgul and such?

As a dyed-in-the-wool LotR fan, I kind of felt like having mages running around everywhere is not really in the spirit of Middle Earth (where the only folks you really see using magic are Gandalf and Saruman). But whatever makes the people happy.

Interested to see what kind of deals they will have on this at launch, if any.
 
[quote name='Tybee']Plus, how were people playing as cave trolls and ents and Nazgul and such?
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In the Shire level, if you control the middle spot, the Ents and Trolls appear to the sides and you can then switch to them (two Ents and a mage or two to heal and protect them from arrows and magic is so deadly that it completly steamrolls the map).

On the other level, there is a troll automatically in the evil side's camp. There isn't anything for the good side on this level other than Gandolf tends to appear more than normal and they start off in the better camp.


I prefer the Shire level but in that stage, there is a lot of wasted room in it.
 
[quote name='Tybee']Plus, how were people playing as cave trolls and ents and Nazgul and such?[/quote]

The Troll has the appearance of a large boulder when it's unmanned and the ent looks like a simple tree. You run up to them and hit your right bumper to climb in. I'm not sure of their attacks but pressing A causes them to heal.

You are given the choice of being a hero like the Balrog, Nazgul, or Gandalf if you are the highest ranked person when your team scores 500 points.
 
Played this with some friends on Saturday and I have to say, I had a lot of fun with it. Sneaking up behind guys and stealth killing them is a lot of fun. As is playing as a giant troll.
 
Semi-impressed with the game. Archers seem a bit too powerful, and you should be able to get up faster when knocked down. But I did have fun, especially in the Shire level.

I think I'll wait for a PC demo and compare it to the Xbox demo before I jump in. It would be better with more people per level.
 
So long as they balance the game, this is an eventual buy for me. I agree with everyone else about the frustrations of getting knocked down. You're done for as soon as you do and that needs to be fixed, but other than that, not bad. Graphics could have been a bit better, at least the main characters could have, i could care less about minor characters/enemies.
 
I will not be buying this game, I'll just wait until the next Battlefront comes out. Can't wait to see the reviews for this game, and gameplay vids. If they add more classes and balance the classes then maybe I'll play.
 
Played the demo for a little bit and I am on the fence. I couldnt hit anything at anything past short-mid range with the archer, could not get close enough to kill anyone as the warrior, and could not line up any stealth kills with the scout. Surprisingly, I did pretty ok with the mage (1:1 k/d ratio). I will definitely rent this game, and if the gameplay is refined a bit I might consider buying.
 
I tried to download LOTR: Conquest the other day and it would stop every time I played Saints Row. It got up to 12% and I turned on my 360 today to just let it donload, but it will not go past 12%. I have deleted and redownloaded it several times but it just jumps to 12% and will not download. How do I download it?
 
cuz you were trying to play a game while downloading something.... usually it stops the download while you are playing online...
 
[quote name='dkreegz515']cuz you were trying to play a game while downloading something.... usually it stops the download while you are playing online...[/quote]

No its NOT while I am playing the game, which is the problem. I am sitting in the NXE menu and watching the progress bar and it hasn't moved at all.
 
[quote name='shieryda']Played a couple matches last night. I prefer "Battlefront".

My prediction for Gamerankings: 75%[/quote]

Lower.
60
 
[quote name='shieryda']Yah, I may have been a little generous there.[/quote]

The demo was fun to me, and might be an interesting rental, but I think most reviewers are gonna pan it.
 
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