The A.I. seems very good also. It took me 2 hours to beat a medium difficulty skirmish game. Gondor (me) vs Mordor (pc).
I'd give this game a 9/10, and would recommend buying it.
Has anyone else picked it up yet? If so, what are your thoughts/comments?
edit: forgot to mention that the score I gave it is based off of first impression. I'd have to go through the campaign and see how multi player is before I gave it a final score. Error fucked around with this message on 12-08-2004 at 12:45 AM.
) I mean, it's true that they both used the same engine, but it's buried beneath so much graphics and interface changes etc. etc.
I like the game so far. Having an army that follows you from map to map in Story mode is nice. Being able to rename units is fun. My Eomer has 4 Rank 7 Rohirrim Riders and 2 Rank 4 Rohirrim Archers that are Eomer's Guard.
Then I have 4 teams of Rohan Yeoman Archers and a unit of Rohirrim Riders that all form Homeland Security (they hang back and guard my bases and stuff while my riders roam free across the plains, destroying everything in their path). So now when you mouse over them it'll say Rohan Yeoman Archers of Homeland Security, Rohirrim Riders of Homeland Security...
I haven't played Skirmish yet, but I've been playing through the Good campaign. It's fun, and it seems like it's exactly the sort of thing War of the Ring should have been. However, this is less faithful to the books than War of the Ring. Hell, it's less faithul to MOVIES. There's no reason Gandalf should fight the balrog and live. 
Hell, I even saved Boromir.
It just seems weird. In truth, it's easy to ignore these aspects while playing the game.
My problem though is that this seems to have gone on too long in the Rohan part. I know I haven't reached the Gondor part, but I'm almost sick of tearing things apart with my cavalry. 4 Rank 7 Riders with all of Eomer's Auras and stuff can charge into pikemen and barely feel it.
All in all, it's been pretty fun. The graphics are fantabulous beyond belief. The music is great, because it's all the movie music. Neat stuff I thought was how your little minimap turns into a movie screen when you're going through stuff that was in the movies, and it'll show you that clip from the movies, without interrupting your gameplay at all.
The One Ring powers and Evenstar Pars are lots of fun too.
A problem: I don't like how your buildings have to "gain experience" to build more advanced units. I've never lost a unit (playing medium difficulty) since the first battle. Admittedly, I'm overly cautious a lot. But because of the unit cap, and because your army comes with you, I rarely train new units in the next battle, so my buildings can't really upgrade.
I can tell you, though, that you'll deffinatley be losing units in other games. While playing the skirmish mode I think I generated about two thousand units, with the computer doing a little more than double what I did if I remember correctly. Upgrades come in very handy.
One thing I didn't like though, was that damn Balrog coming into my town and demolishing it 
The only thing that would even remotley bring it's health down (other than the army of undead to counter it) was Gandalph's rank 10 ability. And even then it didn't even do much damage. Whereas the Balrog would bring my primary citidel's health down to 1/4 of it's full health in one swing!
Not to mention another time I had a command rank of 205/200, and in a mere 15 seconds those numbers changed to 44/200. Lol. It's frustrating and fun at the same time.
Helm's Deep is giving me trouble. I was managing, but steadily losing with still 10 minutes left for Eomer and Gandalf to arrive. Then I did something stupid and got Theoden killed. It doesn't end the mission, but I restarted because I don't like a dead Theoden.
Boromir's always been my favorite because I'm a sucker for Tragic Heroes with epic flaws. That, and I really like Sean Bean.
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Lashanna fucked around with this message on 12-08-2004 at 02:51 AM.
