Hey,I am a big LotR fan. I thought the
movies did a great job of capturing the essence of the books. I have of course played every LotR game since the C-64 days. This game comes the closest in my opinion to giving you the feel of the LotR world.
Graphics,music, interface, actor voices from the movies all top notch.
The game is fun to play and the interactive map and cut scenes in the plantir, brilliant.
There are a few annoying control problems that really detract from this almost stellar game.
1) There is no "lock-on" feature allowing you to follow your selected unit. This destroys the immersion factor by making you resort to arrow keys to follow the action. What were they thinking. Obviously not much.
2) There is no "tilt feature" so all your battle views are up above, you never really get down to the battle field. This leaves you always as a spectator. Another stupid decision.
3) Game play balance needs tweaking. Combinig units is useless.
The lock-on and tilt camera features so evident in Rome Total War, Ground Control 1 and 2 and many other RTS games should not have been left out.
Maybe a patch should be considered to fix this grevious error.
They came so close to a Game of the Year.
Its still fun but be prepared to be annoyed and frustrated.
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