The Lord of the Rings: Conquest (Xbox 360)

Graphics

It looks decent enough, it's not exactly the best graphics on the face of the planet but you can tell that the characters are who they are. Aragorn looks like Aragorn and Legolas looks like a girl, which is spot on for those who have ever read DM of the Rings. Reference too obscure for you, tough, use google.


Animations

Yeah, they don't move like retarded stick men and I have never been one for technical explanations. There seems to be a couple of times where they might get stuck in an animation or the combat seems a little slow.

Physics

There are some there, the usual things explode, bodies fly, swords connect yadda yadda.

AI

The AI is dumb as ten rocks in a bag of more rocks, basically, typical AI for this kind of game. Don't rely on it and play it coop with a friend, you'll be happier that way.

Sound

Good and solid, no problem with the sound, a sword sounds like a sword and the cries of battle are all around you.

Music

Nice music, it should be since EA and Pandemic have access to the various musical libraries of the filmmakers.

Voice and script

Its cheesy fantasy, what do you expect from Lord of the Rings. Some re-used bits from the movies and Hugo Weaving doing the narration, Agent Elrond Smith. Good stuff.

Multiplayer

A bunch of game modes for online play round out the package, it has online or split screen cooperative gaming for you and a friend. There are various types on offer from Control style games where you have to take a certain number of points, King of the Hill affairs where you need to hold a specified location, out and out skirmish/deathmatch where it's every team or man for themselves. The same rules apply from the single player game and there were a few lag drops and some frame rate issues when I played it.

All in all a pretty standard package.