Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring takes the highly acclaimed, much loved Fantasy story, written by J.R.R. Tolkien and converts it into a Real Time Strategy game. In it, you can choose to lead the forces of Good or the forces of Evil as each struggle to control the One Ring.

The game is split into two 10-mission campaigns, giving you the chance to take a look at some of the aspects of the LOTR storyline that weren't focused in the books. In the Good campaign, you follow Legolas, Gimli and Boromir as manage to show up in Rivendell just in time to join the Fellowship of the Ring. In the Evil campaign, you must lead the forces of Sauron, break out of Mordor and besiege the city of Minas Tirith.

Instead of being based on the movie license, the game is devoted exclusively to the books, so you will not hear the actors from the movies in the game.

You will, however, be able to control dwarves, elves, humans, trolls, orcs and huorns.The resource management is toned down with only wood and ore to worry about.

It does add a twist: you must amass 'Fate', so that you can better your heroes, making them better and better units for you to use against the opposing side.

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Alternate Titles

"指环王：魔戒之战" -- Chinese Title (Simplified)
"Zhihuan Wang: Muojie zhi Zhan" -- Chinese Title
"Wladca Pierscieni: Wojna o Pierscien" -- Polish Title
"O Senhor dos Anéis: A Guerra do Anel" -- Brazilian Title
"Le Seigneur des Anneaux: La Guerre de l'Anneau" -- French Title
"La Guerra Del Anillo" -- Spanish Title
"Der Herr der Ringe: War of the Ring - Der Ringkrieg" -- German Title

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Part of the Following Groups

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring
	The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring	Windows	$9.99
	The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring	Windows	$9.99
	Lord of the Rings: Return of the King	Windows	$2.92
	The Hobbit	Windows	$2.50
	The Need for Speed Collection	Windows	$49.95
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The Press Says

Withingames	Dec 19, 2003	4 out of 5	80
Armchair Empire, The	Jan 19, 2004	7.9 out of 10	79
IGN	Nov 04, 2003	7.9 out of 10	79
PC Action	Dec 15, 2003	76 out of 100	76
Jeuxvideo.com	Dec 04, 2003	15 out of 20	75
GameSpot	Nov 07, 2003	67 out of 100	67
GamerDad	Nov 10, 2003		60
GamePro	Nov 04, 2003	3 out of 5	60
Netjak	Jun 29, 2004	5.8 out of 10	58
Gameplanet	Nov 27, 2003		50

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Trivia

The game uses an upgraded version of the Battle Realms engine (now with shiny water, for example). Battle Realms was also developed by Liquid Entertainment.

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by PhoenixFire (83) on Apr 25, 2004.