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When A Successful franchise gets milked too much, the teats shrivel and the tasty gaming milk curdles and turns into a fetid paste. Due out just in time for the Christmas rush (and the hysteria that'll accompany the next film, Return Of The King), there's another five months left to polish this game, and with an Evil campaign yet to be revealed and an all new LOTR back-story, it's more than possible this could end up being a very solid and entertaining RTS.

Luckily, since then it's improved almost beyond all recognition. When we saw this game four months ago at the VU Games conference in Berlin, one candid insider described it as 'a shit on a stick'. We've even been promised a Helm's Deep level, which could give the game some much needed magnitude, as it's currently feeling a little on the thin side. There's also a variety of mission types in place - some involve surviving only the units gi\ an to you at the outset, while others provide more complex base-building tasks. Mission Not So ImpossibleĪpparently, the finished game will judge how good a player you are and adapt the difficulty accordingly, so it won't matter if you're a bit cack-handed. Best of all, though, is the Balrog, which minces up its opponents with a giant flaming whip. Several characters from the movies make an appearance early in the piece, including the aforementioned forehead-on-legs Gollum and mop-topped Legolas, as well as several vicious Cave Trolls. Not only is the interface simpler than a dropped-at-birth chimp, there's little to no tactical musing required to win a level, very much in contrast to Battle Realms. Spectacular, the gameplay was fast, uncomplicated and very easy to master. We got our grubby claws on an early build of the game this issue, and while the graphics proved far from

You'll even be able to play on the side of evil, though this option is yet to be unveiled. So, you can expect to be tasked with navigating Gimli and his dwarven brethren through orc-infested mountains as they make their way to Rivendell, and battle through forests teeming with giant spiders in an attempt to track down that bug-eyed schizoid Gollum. What you definitely won't be seeing in War Of The Ring is Legolas mounting Gimli from behind like a bull and using the bearded midget's whiskers as hairy reigns to gain maximum leverage, while Aragorn holds him still and shouts, "Squeal you dwarven piggy bitch." What you will be seeing however, is a 3D isometric RTS based around Tolkien's epic Lord of the Rings trilogy, developed by Liquid Entertainment, the brains behind the excellent eastern-flavoured RTS Battle Realms.Īimed more at the strategy newcomer than the veteran, War Of The Ring is set to branch away from the storyline of the books and films, and throw you into missions that develop the trilogy's backstory. In fact, let me set the record straight right now about what to expect from this game.