Metareview -- Lord of the Rings: Conquest (PS3, 360)

Different people like different things.

in video game world, here is the actual difference between a pretty horrible game and an average one:

horrible: 6.5
average: 8.8

spread of 2.3

i'd say this is the difference between a god awful game no one wants to play and a well below average one. taking the limit of those two statements gives you about "a pretty crappy game". therefore both reviews effectively say: dont buy

GamesRadar gave it a 2 :S

How exactly is 6.5 a horrible score? Since it's above 5, it must be atleast acceptable.
And 8.8 average? I would say that's a great score.

Unrelated: Anyone know how to change my danged Joystiq avatar picture? I know I'm doing it right, but it never changes... there some issue I don't know about?

I haven't changed mine in a while, but when I did, it seemed to work ok. Try using FireFox if you aren't already. If that's not the problem, then upload your new pic and wait maybe 5 minutes before you refresh/close the browser window. I seem to remember it taking a while to register that I had actually changed it.

The avatar thing is not compatible with Internet Explorer, but definitely is with FireFox

However, even when you successfully change it, the old one doesn't go away until 3-4 weeks later (certainly my Jamie avatar has long worn out its welcome. I changed to my latest SWAT Kats avatar around December 23rd)

Same problem here... I've been stuck with the POTF cover since the avatars were introduced.

@Mr. Khan
I've noticed that your avatar seems to jump back and forth between Jamie and SWAT Kats from post to post and several other people's avatars as well. Strange...

Hmm.. I'm definitely using FireFox. Ah, well. Thanks for the tips, gang.

Whoa that's weird. I just saw the thing Trickob was talking about. Jerk Face's pic changed to what I'm guessing was the intended new one last night and now it's back to the one that was up for the original post.

Probably would have made it worse, because then Pandemic would've been on a deadline, and tie-ins generally have content restrictions set on them, to help insure coordination

We can only hope not

Mage? But there were no mages in LoTR. Magic was very limited, aside from the wizards, ring-wraiths, and balrogs, and there was a very limited number of them. Other people used magic in only a limited context, and even then, that's debatable, as evidence of Dwarves using magic comes from the Hobbit, whose value as canon is conjectural

Let me change the description of the archer:

The archer tries to be the game’s own sniper but it fails miserably because everyone moves around like if their pants were on fire. To compensate this fact the archer gets these special flavored arrows:

Green arrows can make scouts visible and deal a quite decent amount of damage if it hits anyone.

The Fire arrows that are a 1 hit kill most of the time.

And there are also the Multi Arrows which porpoise is to serve as a visual aid to indicate when your fellow archers freak out because they thought they saw a scout somewhere.

Let me correct that, there was a scout alright ready to kill them the moment the archer stands still unless the scout is lagging (or gets retarded) and that same scout is gonna kill you for not helping your fellow team mates, nice job hero.

Thinking about it the scout is probably the reason why the archer and the mage sucked so hard. Everyone freaks out like Kermit the Frog when they know a scout is around so you can shoot anyone…if a scout didn’t killed you already.

The Mage sucks because is a slow and his attacks are so easy to dodge plus none of them have splash damage whatsoever and the Fire wall is only useful if you are capturing a point but sadly that doesn’t prevents being killed by a scout or pretty much everything.

I also forgot to mention that you can take form of a Troll, Balor or Treefolk which delivers a bigger amount of pwnage than any class except for the scout that can also kill those forms but still the first team to abuse this wins.

To Mr Khan:Tell that to the developers,there are Mages already.

*Alright not Already.

*Can't shoot.

I rushed when I typed that because I'm still at work so no I didn't make any corrections.

Re: Mr Khan

Yeah this game rapes Tolkien lore. Mages everywhere casting blue and red lighting, fireballs and large dome shields.

Hell it has ORC MAGES, ORC FUCKING MAGES FUCK.

/rage.

Now wait.

I like the warrior and mage. As a mage, I have little problem with scouts because of the thunder-strike-the-floor spell (whatever it's called). I see the outline of a scout, and I hit that: BOOM! The scout is on his ass and I'm pummeling him with my staff. While the scout does have one-hit kills, he's also a weak little girl when he's on his back, and takes a couple hits to be squashed.

It's also not so easy for a scout to get near if the area is covered in firewalls and lightning is flying all over the place. A side with multiple mages working together can be quite dangerous. One makes a shield spell, effectively blocking archers and making them useless. One fires off firewalls and heals intermittently, keeping the group in top shape and making it harder for scouts to get near. One hits the ground with the thunder-strike, knocking any lurking scouts on their asses and making it easy for warriors to help finish them off.

Teams that rely on scouts will find themselves beaten if they aren't careful. You might get more kills, but you'll lose your capture points.

The warrior is a bit too slow to handle archers well, but he's a beast against scouts, and can take out mages pretty quickly too (because they tend to stand around too much for their own good).

The trolls and ents are menacing and powerful. Thanks to their healing abilities, they can take craploads of damage. When a team sees a huge troll heading for them, they all start aiming for him. Meanwhile the rest of the troll's team can pick off the enemy while they panic and try to take down the big guy.

Heroes are more than just re-skins. They're stronger and have more endurance. One game I played, we had Gandalf hounding us for most of the game-- We just couldn't take him down! He was cutting through us like we were paper targets. Finally, two trolls got in his way, and while he was busy trying to take them down (and standing too still in the process), three archers picked him off with a flurry of shots.

I can see potential for this game to rock.

I pay little attention to critics. They're all younger guys who are obsessed with Japanese games, and they have little appreciation for western-style fantasy. Their taste is WAY different from mine. I personally HATED Metal Gear Solid IV. It came with my PS3, and I still sold the game because it was such a dull, on-rails, loaded-with-cinemas, self-indulgent, rip-off-from-movies piece of crap. So what do the critics do? They name it game of the year. Bleh.

I haven't agreed with critics in ages-- Except Yahtzee. He's usually about right when it comes to what I like and don't like, but even he disagrees with me sometimes.

I won't pay $60 for LOTR: Conquest, but I'll happily trade for it on Goozex when it drops in price a little bit. It will tide me over until Battlefront III finally shows its face.

Of course you could also have a team in which 2 scouts can capture the points while the Warriors and the Mages advance together with 2 archers giving them covering fire but the flaw in your text my friend is the word "Teamwork"


In the Ps3 PC and every non x360 console you could find those every now and then but in the xbox360 everyone tards out and acts on their own.

The mage protects itself and if you ask him to heal you he will happily tell you to go f*ck yourself while is being killed by a scout.

The archer will go with another archer and they may or not assist each other or steal each others kills but the problem is that archers are so slow and the arrows are so inaccurate they might as well carry a note in their back saying "Dagger goes here" not to mention that most of the time they will stay away from the group making them the target of preference.

Warriors they are the ones which can pretty much stand against the scouts but sadly are killed by everything else.

The conclusion is that the game is broken and answers the question why the spy in tf2 can’t kill why clocked? The answer is because it would be f*cking broken.

Am I missing an inside joke here? What happened to 1Up?

Nothing really happened to 1up. Just the magazine and some of the writers that worked on both. So it's possible a guy or gal working on this review got laid off before their review was published.

Stupid reply button!!

*shakes fist in air*

It'll do that for another week or so, did it with my last one, too. Unless the problem's gotten worse in the leetime, that is

are you being sarcastic??

If you seriously don't know, you could google it or check dictionary.com

Not trying to be a jerk, just trying to save you time and face in the future.

I actually don't know. It was a vocab word in some English class a few years back I think, but I forgot. Anyway, I don't really care what the word means. I was just thinking of some obscure Family Guy scene and I did this parody of one of the spoken lines.

Have you seen those hobos that warn everyone about the End of all times?

That's admonish.

And space out is like when person is under the influence of some kind of drug.

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!!!

Sounds like she's retarded

I concur, is it "rather excellent" like Star Wars: Battlefront II? No, but does it deserve a 40/100 like OXM gave it? Hell no, the game is around a 70 or 75 not a 40, that's a score you give to games that are absolutely rubbish... like Little Big Planet!