there was a strategy game with it dunno its name :I but it was cool

This one will be weird but The Lord of The Rings on SNES


Ya the game is in the middle in terms of quality the they did a great job with the music, the music is what kept me going in the game for the most part to be honest.

I agreed, but as along time Tolkien fan who reads the novels more then a decade before the movie came out, I have prblems with callint LOTR the Jackson trilogy like Jackson created it all on his own.

Don't expect any LOTR/Tolkien games to show up here any time soon because of licence issues. THe LOTR licence has move around several times, and at one time you had competing licneces...the licence to make a game out of the novels...(Sieera's War Of The RIng) and the licence for the movie...(The EA Games).

I think it's clear Matewis meant the movies specifically, and not the books, as the game was based on the movie licence, used the movies' aesthetics, music, actors etc. hence "the Peter Jackson trilogy" to make the distinction.

I know it's not TECHNICALLY a Lord of the Rings standalone game, but the TCM for Medieval 2, Divide and Conquer, hands down.

None really.

Third Age is the only one that really did justice to the books, and that's a mod. All the rest of are just movie-games made to come out while the films were still at the cinemas.

You do realise that's easily and provably untrue? I mean, I'm not saying you have to like them, but there were LotR games long before and after the movies.

My favourite was an old ZX Spectrum game from Mike Singleton "War in the Middle Earth" It existed also a port for the other platforms like PC and amiga but with some changes.

It was a pausable real time grand strategy*Wargame game of some sort where you could manage and control the armies in a Middle Earh continental map, to cover frodo and the companions in their advance to Mordor; the units could be split, create new ones etc. Total freedom to achieve the goal.

There were also tactical battles. If the map unit/battalion consisted in 46 warriors and an hero from the books, for example, in the tactical battle map you had to control them in battle in a rough and old control wise isometric RTS game but surprinsingly advanced for the ZX Spectrum and for the time.

The Lord Of The Rings - The Battle For Middle-Earth II and Middle-Earth - Shadow Of Mordor.

Never played one that I remember. They're mostly all in genres I don't care about. I could probably play those recent open world whacky-whacky games, but I'm not excited to do so and thus have not gotten around to it.

A real LotR RPG game would be great to see someday.

Yeah, after looking at responses yesterday I was surprised the only thing close to an RPG would be LOTRO (MMO). With such extensive world-building already done, it's very strange that no one has done it.

As for the wacky-wacky games...

... they are worthwhile... but quite repetitive (as are most recent WB games). But then I love any game where you can set AI to attack other AI and just sit back and watch.

As Breja succinctly put it, I was indeed specifically referring to the films. It's easily the most impressive movie tie-in game I've ever seen (except perhaps for Blade Runner)

Is Battle for Middle Earth available anywhere? It was an EA game right?

Actually the only one I've played. Enjoyed it quite a bit too. Story wasnt amazing but was def let down by the ending.