Best Worst Game With a Good License Gone Bad

By Frank Anderson
Sunday, 03 January 2009  

Tags: Star Wars: Battlefront , Mercenaries 2 , Lord of the Rings: Conquest , Best Worst of 2009

LOTR: Conquest

Perhaps anyone who bought Lord of the Rings: Conquest should have taken the clue from Mercenaries 2. Maybe we should have waited until the reviews came out. Still, anyone who was a big fan of the Star Wars: Battlefront series could not be blamed for thinking the formula would work well with the LOTR license.

It did not.

It might have been the slightly upgraded Battlefront engine which was to blame for the game’s sub-par graphics, but the LOTR license was mainly to blame for the game not working at all. LOTR characters simply did not fit well in the Battlefront formula, and seeing a large number of mages running around broke the illusion completely.

Boo-ya

 

Comments (3)

Terrible, terrible game. EA should feel ashamed for exploiting the LOTR license so blatantly.
Omri Petitte , January 03, 2010
Holy crap, that title makes my head spin.
Alex R. Cronk-Young , January 03, 2010
I completely forgot about this game... I wish it stay forgotten. smilies/cheesy.gif
John Michael , January 04, 2010

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