Background Research: Other Games

The Lord of the Rings franchise has also seen the release of other games which are adaptations of the original and some are good and some are excellent to play, especially the newer ones and the ones with a multiplayer feature as this gives it a lot more capabilities as a game to improve further with more add ons and mods. Some of the other games include Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring which is a nice little strategy game based around battles and building up an empire either on the side of the fellowship or the side of Sauron. There are also playable characters that are included from the films on either side, although not all the main characters, but in my opinion it could have been designed better and does lack some amount of effort in places.

The next game which is quite interesting is Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth, which again like the War of the Rings is a real time strategy game. This game as well is like the games based off the films, as it also uses short film clips within game play and also has actor voice over which is a nice touch to the game. This game uses the same concepts of The War of the Ring in terms of the different factions you can play as but as this game was made later on it has been improved further and you can play in this game as either the Horse-Lords of Rohan or Gondor on the side of the Free-peoples of Middle Earth or you can choose the side of Darkness and choose Mordor with it's Orc's and Troll's or Isengard as the Uruk-Hai.

The next game I want to mention is Lord of the Rings: Conquest. This is the different game out of the two already mentioned as this is not a strategy game but an action one. This game is a lot like Star Wars: Battlefront in the way that you can be either side playing in round where you fight either good or evil, depending on which side you are, in a battle to try and win. This was not the best of gaming examples from the franchise as it isn't as exacting as the main games and it has limitations in terms of what you can actually do.

The last game that I am going to mention is probably the most exciting one, and it has been free to play as it is Lord of the Rings: Online. This is an online download of basically Middle Earth that has been modeled into an open world experience. This game is a lot like World of Warcraft, and is right up my street as it includes both storyline and combat at the same time, making it an exciting gaming experience. There have been 4 expansion packs for this game now which can be downloaded, the fastest method being through Steam, and the graphics are excellent as well; providing you have a graphics card that is fast enough to process everything as when running in HD the game does look stunning.