8.4!? We are talking about LotR III, aren't we!? This game deserves no 8.4! It is a shame for its predecessors!!!
Then... LotR III came. I bought it, because I thought: "If LotR II is very good, LotR III must be perfect." How wrong I was...
After buying and installing this and starting the 1st map I felt like a poor little fool who was betrayed by big concerns which only want to make money. This title is crappy, it is a shame for the whole LotR series, it's boring, ugly, uninspired and has only about 10 maps and some boring battle maps. There is no free play... if you want to play a map in singleplayer mode, you must play a campaign scenario. If you don't play the campaign, you'll never have all maps and you'll never be able to play a real singleplayer game. Because you can only play the maps in Campaign mode, you cannot play as every county, making things even worse and killing most of the fun you could have with this game... IS THIS A JOKE?!? I PAYED 19€ FOR THIS PIECE OF &$"&%% !!! AND IT'S NOT EVEN WORTH 50 cent!!!
However, I kept playing... I paid 19€ and I was not going to just throw this game away, even if it was the biggest piece of crap I've ever seen for the PC.
I never played through it, but I got quite far. The game became at least a little entertaining later on. Nevertheless, this thing was not worth 19€ and was one of the biggest disappointments of the year 2004.
Overall, this game was only made to make people buy it because of its name and its great predecessors. It's quality is poor and it's a big big disappointment. I really can't understand why gamespot rated it 8.4. This must be a bad joke!