This week I attempted to trudge through the recently release Lord of the Rings: Conquest. I say trudge because in single player it's an incredibly frustrating experience. The constant knock downs, pinning against the environment, and the constant rain of enemy arrows really rub my hobbit feet the wrong way. Thankfully the game supports co-op, and jumping into a session of that helps alleviate the pain.
Pandemic Studios, the developers of Lord of the Rings: Conquest, are hosting a week long game with developers session for the aforementioned title. From January 26th, 2009 through February 1st, 2009 over 20 team members will be playing online from 10PM to 2AM Eastern. The event takes place only on the Xbox 360 and promises to have developers playing all gameplay modes - which we assume includes the 2 player co-op mode.
Lord of the Rings: Conquest is soaring into retailers next week, in fact, it's already landed at Co-Optimus HQ in time for us to review the latest from Pandemic Studios. We'll be giving the console versions a run through the hobbit obstacle course, but for those of you with fancy smancy PCs...and even ones without - the official system requirements have been released. Without further ado...
Ever since our in-depth preview that included some hands-on time by Mike, our hopes have been high for Lord of the Rings: Conquest. Even though Pandemic apparently removed two players from the four-player co-op campaign, Pandemic's last two battlefield-style outings -- Star Wars Battlefront and Battlefront II) -- allowed enough AI on the playing field at one time that players could band together and play multiplayer matches as co-op partners. Conquest looks like it will be no different: the Live page for the game indicates that up to four players can play splitscreen.
The other day, we posted a news story where we reported that Lord of the Rings: Conquest only had one Co-Op achievement. Sad news, to be sure! Luckily, our good friends at Pandemic sent along the official, complete list of both Achievements and Trophies, along with the clarification that any and all achievements related to the campaign are able to be earned in cooperative play by both players!
We've got two videos today from the upcoming Lord of the Rings title, Conquest, from Pandemic studios. The first video showcases almost 6 minutes of Gameplay footage as well as an interview with studio director Eric Gewirtz. The really cool thing about this video? It's taken from the Evil campaign in the game and it shows the player in control of a Balrog, in the shire, killing Ents and Hobbits. How do you like them apples you old gaffer?
Despite an original fall release date, EA and Pandemic studios have announced a small delay in Lord of the Rings: Conquest for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC and DS. Via a press release it was announced the game would have an official January 13th, 2009 launch in the US.
In addition to the official site, EA Games and Pandemic announced Battle for the Ring earlier this week; users can post their own blogs, interact via a public forum, and perform quests for "gold", much like the mission system that the now-defunct CharlieOscarDelta.com had made popular. Pandemic promises that "gold" - ...
Last week, we and several other representatives from community sites were invited out to Pandemic Studios in Los Angeles to attend a Community event for Lord of the Rings: Conquest.
Actually, spiffy may not be the right word. You can check the trailer for Lord of the Rings: Conquest out for yourself here, and choose your own word to describe it. The fact that four players can play through the campaign cooperatively via split-screen or online had us watching the title closely. Given the fact that you can also play through as the bad guys? That just puts it over the top. Maiming hairy footed halflings with a buddy for an evening sounds like fun to me. Hobbits, you are going down!
It's been a few years since the "great milking" of the Lord of the Rings franchise. In fact, I believe it's been well over a year since the last LOTR game was release, which would have been LOTR: Online.
Well, it looks like the Pandemic is setting its eyes on another classic series. With their success with the massive battle-fest that was Star Wars Battlefront, they have decided to create a spiritual successor to the superb Battlefront series. That game is The Lord of the Rings: Conquest. IGN has kindly detailed the game, which will feature the epic battles depicted in the movies and will have players fighting Balorgs, Sauron, and the like. So what's the co-op appeal?
