

Hero classes mean business, grab one whenever you can It’s also here you’ll start to see the cracks in the game design and execution already. Sadly you won’t be participating in a huge swathe of orc slaying but will be carefully guided down a specific route until you face off against the one ring wearing tyrant. The setting for your lesson in Tolkien warfare is none other than the epic struggle between the alliance of men and elves against the hordes of orcs and Sauron himself. The games combat isn’t a straight pick-up and play affair and so a trip into the tutorial is recommended to make sense of light, medium and heavy attacks and how they can be combined with special powers for each of the classes. Conquest offers all the iconic locations of the three films to battle as either the forces of good or evil as you seek to free or enslave middle-earth. While the very insinuation of The Lord of the Rings is big epic battles, rousing speeches and hobbits saving the realm, Pandemic have tried to capture this dramatic chaos in the same style Battlefront offered a glimpse into the galactic struggle for Star Wars. The developer is no stranger when it comes to armed conflict but this is the first time they’ve had to go medieval and break out the whetstones.
