Magic in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings was usually a subtle force wielded openly only by a fearsome few, while magical weapons were both few and underpowered. In both single and multiplayer games you can play as either the evil forces of Sauron or the allied elven, human and dwarven forces – but the classes are consistent across both factions.Įach class has a basic attack as well as a set of unique abilities that are firmly at odds with aspects of the fictional universe.

There’s the Archer, Warrior, Mage and Rogue. The classes themselves with be familiar to anyone who’s ever played a class-based game like this before – and there’s more of those than there are crumpled sweet wrappers littering the bit-tech offices. Players are given a certain amount of lives, or reinforcements, to accomplish their objectives with and can switch their classes whenever they spawn. Conquest has four distinct, though totally archetypal, classes for players to experiment with.

Mercenaries gave players a choice of three characters too, though they were all roughly identical. Mercenaries had levels that were bigger than a Haribo that’s been soaked in water for two weeks, gained self-awareness, hit puberty and decided that it wants to make a profession out of writing long and rambling similes that don’t really mean anything.Ĭonquest by comparison has some very small and very linear levels, with objectives that aren’t about finding smart ways to outwit the AI but rather just hammering the right mouse button until all that’s left of your enemies is a paste that looks like dried ketchup. It’s basically, as Harry so succinctly put it in one of his hourly (and hour long) looking-over-my-shoulder sessions, Mercenaries 2: Fuel of Mordor.Ĭomparing LOTR: Conquest to Pandemic’s other recent third person shooter though is a bit misleading it has to be said. From the defence of Helms Deep to the assault on The Black Gate, all the important bits are here.

Players take over the role of soldiers in one of the armies in the Lord of the Rings universe and are thrown in to all the most massive battles. The basic structure to the game then is pretty much spelled out by a list of its key features.

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