The Lord of the Rings: Tactics
Return to Middle-earth in this tactical RPG and decide the fate of The Third Age. Build a Fellowship of heroes or create a force of evil with hundreds of skill, weapon, and ability upgrades. Send your armies…
The Lord of the Rings: Tactics is a strategy developed by Amaze Entertainment, released 8 December 2005 on PlayStation Portable.
What The Lord of the Rings: Tactics is
The Lord of the Rings: Tactics is a strategy game developed by Amaze Entertainment and released in 2005. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation Portable only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Return to Middle-earth in this tactical RPG and decide the fate of The Third Age. Build a Fellowship of heroes or create a force of evil with hundreds of skill, weapon, and ability upgrades. Send your armies into battle across legendary locations from the film trilogy and J.R.R. Tolkien's fiction. A simultaneous turn-based multiplayer system delivers a combat unrivaled by any Tactics game. The board is set, the pieces are in motion. Middle-earth awaits you.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Lord of the Rings series
The Lord of the Rings: Tactics is the 26th of 69 entries we hold in the The Lord of the Rings series. It arrived 11 months after Lord of the Rings: Warrior of Middle Earth. The next entry was The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II in 2006. Its critic score of 70 is 4 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring at 91.
How it was received
The Lord of the Rings: Tactics holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 3,250 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 3 points above the year average.
What it launched against
The Lord of the Rings: Tactics launched on 8 December 2005, within three weeks of Kingdom Hearts II, Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones and Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Kingdom Hearts II, Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones, Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time.
Official trailer
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