By following the mould of the successful Star Wars Battlefront series, one could have expected that Pandemic's Lord of the Rings: Conquest would have been on the same level of quality. Instead, where Battlefront was big, bold and varied, Conquest is short, unimpressive and extremely flawed.
Strange design decisions, latency issues and distinct lack of balance destroy the potential offered by the game's single player and multiplayer aspects, and poor visuals and low production values really spoil the game's presentation. Lord of the Rings: Conquest fails to meet fans' expectations or do justice to the license
Sam Smith: ''With the recent travesty known as Aliens: Colonial Marines making us pine for what could have been, Play have decided to take a look back at five games that could have been so much more. There’s no real order to these, all of them were pretty rubbish.''
Haha, too funny that Colonial Marines made the list. And I remember Lair. I wanted to love that game. I bought it after they patched the controls. Despite that it was still sooo bad. It had gorgeous cut scenes though.
I came in here expecting to see disappointing ps3 exclusives Not 90% multiplat games??!
article tricked me!
same, i guess some one want to poke at sony amidst all the hype and rumours of next gen. the list is good though they were pertty disappointing game. duke nukem and alien colonial marines suffered the same problem in development for ages and passed between different developers
You're right, those games were also a disappointment on other systems. Flamebait article.
Lair is still one of my favorite games this generation, it was technically impressive and it was fun. I played it with the sixaxis and it played great, only people who didnt give it a try for real say otherwise. Not saying it was perfect but there is still no other games like it.
I'd had replaced something with Haze personally.
It wasn't as bad as some listed here but it wasn't quite what it should and could had been either--and like Lair was an actual exclusive. I can honestly say the only thing I really remember about Haze was it had something to do with Nectar and bee color motifs... and I had forgotten about it almost completely until reading this.
Yeah same, Disappointing and bad aren't the same thing. Haze had quite the hype back in the day
I came into here expecting Haze to be on. I had some 'fun' with that game,though it was mainly the experience rather than the game.
Haze was disappointing, but like you said, it wasn't a bad game. I think the stereotypical soldier aspect was overlooked as lazy and unoriginal, when in fact it was the Nectar drug making them act that way so they didn't fear going into battle.
It was a pretty good game tbh, but I would've taken a new TimeSplitters game over it any day.
Haze was poor.
I remember seeing the start of the second level (?) which I think had you driving a buggy around this dirt coloured landscape, and the environments looked like a joke. This was compared to the first level in the jungle, which actually looked pretty good.
Anyway, the online co-op was quite good fun.
Edit - found it!
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Now that the PS4 controller has way way improved motion controls, its probable that we could see a better Lair coming out for it.
i think Lair is worth trying. people say it sucks before they tried it out. i liked the sixaxis implementation it works quite well and graphics weren't bad at all.
and how stupid is it to say PS3 disappointment where only one of the games if exclusive ?
Ive never played Lair myself, but I always wanted to.
Well until all the harsh reviews came in atleast saying the controls didnt work...
WHAT IF... LAIR controls worked perfectly?
What then?
BitPunch writes - APB recently shut down after its servers were only online for a couple of months. With the short life span of many online games, it's becoming far too easy for gamers to "miss the boat." Once gone, these games can never be played again.
With similar shutdowns of the servers for Halo 2 and a fistful of EA titles, many of our favorite games are simply going too soon.
Wow yeah, I think it would have to be up to the users to contribute to a user owned server. Like FUG on TF2. $$ though.
Seems like a lot of great games are coming and going, or dying out. If only more people knew about some of the titles out there - better marketing, perhaps?
There should be community support or dedicated servers or host server abilities for some of these game to continue life down the road. Does anyone remember the game Shogo? Well let's say 10 to 20 of you folks out there remember that game, and suddenly want to pop online and play it. You install it, you look for whatever the newest patch is, and then you pop online and create a room, MAYBE you'll get some folks to play with you.
As for console games, the whole 'server' thing is stupid. You should be able to connect and play any game that has MP. IDIOTS who pay for XBL should have that ability to play every game that is XBL MP aware. Not just titles that are 'current'.
Major Nelson's Blog writes:
"Content: LOTR: Conquest
Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions except Japan
Dash Text: Middle-earth stands on the brink of destruction. You will unite to save it or destroy it. Each race is bound to this one fate. Choose your allegiance!
Content: SmackDown vs RAW 2008
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Availability: With 8 Superstar Fighting Styles and a whole new level of control, how will you play?
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Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions except Japan
Dash Text: Have more fun playing with friends. Alone you're great, but together you're unstoppable!
Ouch, I'm fairly disappointed in this game myself.