Anything is Possible in Lord of the Rings: Conquest
By Stephany on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 at 12:44 PM PST In Electronic Arts, Gamer Life, Games, Microsoft, Sony
Lord of the Rings: Conquest was described by Pandemic and EA as Battlefront with Orcs back in April, which not only got the gaming world pretty interested in this new title, but also wanting to know more about it.
In light of E3 coming up, which promises to have LotR: Conquest on hand, Rob Taylor over at CVG brought up an interesting thought today regarding EA’s upcoming LotR: Conquest:
“If you ever wanted to raze Bag End to the ground with a mighty Balrog’s fire whip, kick Gandalf’s wizened arse with Saruman or grind Samwise into dust with Sauron, now’s your chance.”
Yes Rob, there have been many times I have wanted to go on a Hobbit killing rampage. While trying to get from lvl 10 and up in LotRO, I had to run a bunch of errands for the furry footed busybodies, and suffice it to say, developed a highly evolved prejudice towards them. If the game would have let me, by the time I finally finished the Shire quests, I was so enraged that I would have relished in the opportunity to turn Michael Delving into nothing short of a rubble filled crater. But enough about my anger issues.
The article goes on to say that like Battlefront, you will not only be picking a character to play such as Warrio, Archer, Scout or Mage (which we knew about) but you will also be able to step into the embodiment of heroes like Aragorn and Gandalf. Conquest will also encourage you to reincarnate as different classes should you die, in order to, as Rob put it: “sample the sweeping variety of gameplay styles the game has”.
Speaking about the multiplayer part of the game, with four-player online campaign co-op, Hero-only Deathmatch there is the Ring Bearer quest where one has to escape Ringwraiths with your only friend being your trusty dagger Sting.
It sounds fantastic to me, and to again to quote Rob:
“If a next gen Battlefront starring outrageous numbers of Uruk-hai, Elves and Rohan Riders doesn’t put fire in your belly, you’re less of a man than Gríma Wormtongue.”
You know, I could not have said it any better myself.
Thanks: CVG
Want.
The Ring-Bearer mode sounds a little bit one sided. Hmm, should we be a Ringwraith that can only be fought off with powers of extreme good or fire, or should we be a little Hobbit with a ring that the Ringwraiths can see that can make him invisible to everyone else, but more visible to his pursuers, and with a tiny little sword that won’t hurt the Ringwraiths at all.
I have to admit, they probably won’t make it quite that faithful to the books. But they should. Then find a different way to make it balanced.
will it have eomer and theoden and his son
