Excellent game
There is a porblem i would just like to state to other reviews at this station... this game is not meant to be compared to the Film... it is created by J.R.R. Tolkiens family members who brought the game to life with the BOOKS! Now thats out of the way onto the reviews.
I enjoy many RTS's, building towns, collecting artifacts and taking art in epic battles surely does rock my boat. Though rumours were arrising of a new RTS based on the LOTR books. LOTR is highly popular as it has now been highly recongnised by youths to adults in its fantasy,war genre. Though the game could have been better. There was not enough missions for the good side and you rarely got to command the fellowship together. The ending resolved into fighting the Balrog??????? which is not actually in the books and kind of messed up the game. The evil campaign was so much more enjoyable though only one epic battle was recognised through the whole game and that was Helms deep! War of the ring staged many great effects such as grass swaying as your units moved through the colourful forests, water splashing as you glided your mouse over it though this was not all it cracked up to be. There were few buildings and few units to build and a maximum poulation limit of 100! Quite poor in comparison to Age of empires 1&2 and age of mythology and Warcraft 3! And also no-one is ever online!