The Lord of the Rings: Conquest

Play as Evil characters in a brand new, 'Evil' campaign. Battle through scenarios after Frodo failed to destroy the One Ring; it's good to be bad! Battle online, in a co-op campaign or offline in split-screen.

60 9 January 2009

Adventure Hack and slash/Beat 'em up Action Fantasy

The Lord of the Rings: Conquest is an adventure developed by Artificial Mind & Movement, released 9 January 2009 on Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What The Lord of the Rings: Conquest is

The Lord of the Rings: Conquest is an adventure game developed by Artificial Mind & Movement and released in 2009. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Zero.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In this exciting, action strategy game, players fight on the side of both Good and Evil in all the biggest battles from The Lord of the Rings movies. The Battlefront format allows them to switch between characters at will, to suit the circumstance or their style, reliving – and even reinventing – the chaotic and engrossing conflicts from the films as they choose how best to tackle their objectives and defeat their enemies.

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the The Lord of the Rings series

The Lord of the Rings: Conquest is the 32nd of 69 entries we hold in the The Lord of the Rings series. The next entry was The Lord of the Rings: Conquest in 2009. Its critic score of 60 is 14 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring at 91.

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How it was received

The Lord of the Rings: Conquest holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 7 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 65, across 105 votes.

What it launched against

The Lord of the Rings: Conquest launched on 9 January 2009, within three weeks of Spelunky Classic, Skate 2, Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage and Crayon Physics Deluxe. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Spelunky Classic, Skate 2, Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage, Crayon Physics Deluxe.

Cheats and codes

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