Oct 31 2008
Lord Of The Rings: Conquest Gets A Release Date
Lord Of The Rings: Conquest officially has a date finally. Despite my hopes for the game to release next month, Conquest won’t be out until January 9, 2009. That disappoints me because I was looking forward to playing Conquest as soon as possible, given that Pandemic is developing the game with the Battlefield set-up in mind. And especially considering how well Pandemic’s last attempt at bringing a Battlefield game into a movie franchise worked out, as all the Star Wars: Battlefront games were spectacular.
I can’t wait to execute the concept in the LOTR universe. Just seems like the battles from the books and films were made to be played out in a game. Who wouldn’t want to defend, or attack, Helm’s Deep changing unit tactics on the fly and participating as a lone warrior in the massive battle. Conquest will be especially awesome if they keep the hero option from Star Wars: Battlefront 2, where you were able to play as popular characters from the universe.
I would certainly appreciate being able to score enough kills or points within a level to summon Sauron, or to play as Aragorn, something awesome.
But the real promise here is online play. If Pandemic pulls it off capably, there will be nothing more fun that sword swinging action with your friends online, especially if you can still have the massive battles with few to no NPCs.
Too bad we have to wait another two months to see just how much fun Conquest is going to be.
