#The lord of the ring movie
#The lord of the ring license

Some of the later twists count as (minor) innovations to RTS storytelling.

There are barriers, ambushes, surprise attacks, and missions that require quick thinking and cunningly using your hero's powers. In another, workers must destroy a bridge as warriors fend off the attackers. In one, the dwarves have to rescue, defend, and repair a giant catapult that you can use to rain death on the enemy. War of the Ring manages to innovate in some clever ways. All of this is pretty odd when you consider Sierra's claim that War of the Ring is based on Liquid Entertainment's Battle Realms engine and not on Blizzard's work.Д«ut that doesn't mean it should be ignored. Similar power recharge rates, and when they die, you can bring them back to life. And the heroes function in almost exactly the same way. It's a similar rock-paper-scissors unit approach. Similar mix of races: Human (Gondor), Elves, Dwarves, Orcs and other assorted bad guys. War of the Ring lacks this and instead relies on clunky in-game cutscenes. It worked for Warcraft III because there were dark, foreboding (and gorgeous) cutscenes telling the story. The larger creatures have the same blockiness (particularly the horse hooves), and this weakens Tolkien's somewhat humorless tone.

It also features the same 3/4ths perspective, same limited camera options, same cartoonish 3D graphics, and the characters even run with the same hoppy-skippy gait (though it's toned down a bit).

War of the Ring seems to imitate Warcraft III, all the way down to the menu screens for each campaign. In fact, it looks almost too familiar it looks like Blizzard's best-selling Warcraft III and, unfortunately, it suffers a bit from the comparison. But that doesn't mean the game doesn't look very familiar.

#The lord of the ring movie

The voices don't sound like the movie characters, the weapons and architecture aren't what we've seen on the screen, and the orcs don't look like Peter Jackson's orcs.

#The lord of the ring license

Vivendi managed to secure the book license to counter Electronic Arts' artful grab of the film license, and that's why you won't see anything from the movies in its new real-time strategy release, War of the Ring. Anyone who has read the books and/or seen the films knows all about that.