The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring
The quest to destroy the One Ring continues in the first real-time strategy game based on The Lord of the Rings saga. Massive battles erupt as the forces of light and darkness fight for control of…
The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring is an adventure developed by Liquid Entertainment, released 8 November 2003 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring is
The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring is an adventure game developed by Liquid Entertainment and released in 2003. It was published by Sierra Entertainment. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring is a 2003 real-time strategy game (RTS) developed by Liquid Entertainment and published by Sierra Entertainment, a subsidiary of Vivendi Universal Games. Set in J. R. R. Tolkien’s fictional Middle-earth, it expands upon the events of the War of the Ring as told in his fantasy novel, The Lord of the Rings.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the The Lord of the Rings series
The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring is the 21st of 69 entries we hold in the The Lord of the Rings series. The next entry was The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age in 2004. Its critic score of 91 is 17 points above the series average of 74. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring holds a critic score of 91 out of 100. That places it above 96% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 22 points above the year average.
What it launched against
The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring launched on 8 November 2003, within three weeks of Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom.
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