EA and Pandemic announced today a new Lord of the Rings game, called LOTR Conquest, and it is coming out this fall on Xbox 360, PS3, PC, and DS. The developers have simply called this Lord of the Rings Battlefront as it is pretty much similar to those Star Wars games that came out last generation, but now the LOTR universe gets the treatment. While there are many ways to relive the greatest battles of the movies and books in past LOTR games like the beat-em-ups based on the movies and the Battle for Middle-Earth RTS series, Conquest throws a different spin on the LOTR universe being a normal dude like a warrior or an archer at the various battlefields like Minas Tirith and Helm's Deep, and then as the battle progresses doing well, you can play as the hero characters for a limited period of time (Gandalf, Aragorn, Sauron, and more) just like Star Wars Battlefront 2. I'm curious about how Pandemic will balance out the gameplay with the good and evil factions since they did a decent job with the Star Wars Battlefront games. Multiplayer is currently limited to a maximum of 8 players even though there are so many CPU controlled characters to worry as well. While we are not getting Star Wars Battlefront 3 anytime soon, Lord of the Rings: Conquest does fill the void for a Battlefront game in this generation of games and hopefully it will be pretty good. I have high hopes for this since I liked Star Wars Battlefront for what it brings to the table even though I didn't play Battlefront 2 that much.
No comments:
Post a Comment