The forgotten LOTR Battlefront game | Lord of the Rings: Conquest
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2021
- Lord of the Rings Conquest is the best LOTR game, Shadow of War can suck my Palantiri. EA needs to whip up a max graphics terrible gameplay version of this bad boy for the modern day. Think of the lootcrate possibilities!
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"where was gondor when command point B fell" - Théoden, Bantha fodder
You called?
@@VenlyssPnorr oh shit
Gondor is racist against Horse men
#cancelgondor
Holding command point c
I didn't read that because I found this comment exactly as he said it so I just followed along as he narrated
Gondor: "We don't have enough men to defend the country"
Also gondor: "let's fucking attack Minas morgul"
Stonks
Sigma strat
Yes
That is because arrow man is with us
Minas Morgul is a strategic choke point & the only pass in Ephel Duath, the Mountains of Shadow, that separate Gondor from Mordor. If this fort was taken then Mordor would have no way to send any force large enough to invade Gondor & would instead have to march all the way around the entire mountain range through the Black Gate
This is very lore accurate. The only reason Saruman lost the Battle for Helms Deeps because he couldn't capture the command posts
Still more accurate than Rings Of Power!😅
"WATCH THOSE WRIST ROCKETS!"-Aragorn
@@Facade953 Spot on ahhah
That was one mean-ass tirith
Command points just represent focal points of the battle where the flow of battle is decided by a specific skirmish.
My most vivid memory of this game was attacking the Shire on the evil campaign, I finally got enough points for Sauron. Spawned as him and immediately got instakilled by an Eagle. I spawned, took like 3 steps and it swooped past and carried me off. I wasn't even mad.
Bro that literally happened to me all the time
That’s hilarious
This game was great, very limited and simple but just mindless fun
I wish I knew this existed when I was a kid and played battlefront 2, looks so much fun
@@frits191 it is
There were so few players for this online, I remember always matching up against Game Devs whenever my friend and I would go online at his house
This was the best split-screen game ever
Yeh it was a good game because at least they made it. Even if it wasn’t amazing games like this aren’t made anymore.
Honestly I don’t know why more franchises haven’t used the Battlefront formula.
A battlefront-esque harry potter game would be cool. it's just this but everyone is just a reskined mage
@@SteampunkCorvus everyone is a wizard in harry potter
@@fuzzy8889 yes that's the point/joke
@@SteampunkCorvus explain in GREAT detail...
I wish we would get a remaster or a remake.
I love how Frodo is the most broken hero in the game. U can literally back stab Sauron to death no problem. U become invisible, u can fight while invisible and if u get behind any hero, u can instakill them with back stab.
Damn the part from return of the king where the guy in the crowd tells someone Frodo was a hobbit prince who personally faced and defeated sauron was actually right
Lore friendly since he has the one ring.
@@Dr.Gainzzz not really if he's fighting sauron
"I can't recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass. I'm naked in the dark. There's nothing--no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I can see him with my waking eyes...AND I WANNA STAB HIM TO DEATH." Frodo Nine-Fingers, greatest assassin that ever walked the Middle Earth.
Frodo not really that broken. You can play as the non hero version of the assassin and still win.
Me and my sister still play this to this day when she’s in town. It’s always the first thing she asks to do lol. The game is mindless fun but so absurdly unbalanced it’s amazing they released the game lol
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I rented this on the PS3 when I was in second grade, and until oboe played it I had completely forgotten of it's existence. Thing is, I also remember having a lot of fun playing it with my brother. When you're a kid your standards are so low, it's kinda wholesome in a way
Makes me wish I had siblings
@@skeletor6573 Reproduce many times so your offspring have siblings.
@@accelerationquanta5816 nah bub, the world is ending why put more that one through that sadness. Plus already had one and no way in hell could I afford having another one so I guess that ship has sailed.
Any movie can be turned into a battlefront-style game by just adding a lot of random dudes and murder
And command posts. Cant forget about those
Koyaanisqatsi battlefront when?
now I'm imagining the Late Bronze Age Collapse as a Battlefront style game
Storming D-Day on Saving Private Ryan, *Eisenhowers voice* “THEY ARE CAPTURING A COMMAND POST!”
“A COMMAND POST HAS BEEN LOST, BUT NOT THE BATTLE!”
@@MacewindJediMaster The enemy has taken a command post. Take it back!
Our numbers are being depleted...
One of my favorite memories was my friend becoming Sauron in the Shire on the evil campaign only to instantly get grabbed by an eagle and die.
Istg there was a bridge that was certain death by eagle in that map
@@hashteraksgage3281 yes, the starting bridge as soon as you become sauron lmao.
Is there a way to get this game today? Looks so fun!!!
@@booki7057 Emulation is easiest if you have the computer for it, physical copies for the 360 go for about a hundred bucks.
@@seawind930 I don’t have an xbox anymore unfortunately
The only time I ever saw my father cry was when we saw Return of the King in the cinema and the scene came on where Frodo is hoisted into the air by the Nazgul and drops 50ft in a T-pose to his death.
I never understood why this game sort of fell under the radar. It’s an ingenious idea to make a Lord of the Rings game in the style of Battlefront, and it really feels like you’re in the movies.
Exactly to this day there is still no battlefront like war simulator for fantasy medieval genres. Many realistic ones, but none with magic and fantasy races.
@@Samurai-no4wu true. Although I wouldn't call Chivalry or Mordhau realistic
@@georgiykireev9678 he probably meant historical
@@Samurai-no4wu I think Mandaloregaming review some games like that, but it's a bit diffferent I think
The dudes that made Chivalry made a game like that based on ancient Persia, but unfortunately it has been canned.
As someone who played the shit out of Conquest, spam abilities. They're busted. Particularly the fire circle from the mages, just melts fodder.
Yeah watching him not use abilities except for the lightning bolt as mages physically hurt me
@@im_flat also aragon's special attack.
@@im_flat that wasn't even an "ability" it's a regular attack.
the scout backstap and the warrior spin move are busted imo
@@im_flat For real it was frustrating when this game has THE simplest and most accessible controls to that shit lol
"where was Gondor when command point b fell" had me in stiches I wasnt ready
The belrog killed them all at command point c.
I'd love to go back in time, show this game to Tolkien and record his reaction. According to his son, Tolkien probably would have hated the Jackson Trilogy for having "too much mindless action" so I can't imagine how he'd respond to this!
Honestly, who knows how JRR would have reacted to anything adapted from his works. I take anything Christopher said with a heavy grain of salt because Christopher in general wasn't exactly the guy who'd be very fun at parties.
Christopher Tolkien was an overloaded douche canoe.
@funnelvortex7722 He took his duties to his dad's life's work seriously.
@@KopperNeomanhence why he was “fun at parties”
I mean the dude wrote 20 page back stories for bar keeps that being the group a drink. Im sure if the movie isn't 10 hours he wouldn't have liked it
This game was actually awesome, they totally recreated locations from the movies perfectly. They had secret moves you could do as hero units and This game wasn't forgotten the online servers got pulled for battlefield 3. I was like 5-20th on the leaderboards when the servers died :'(
No actually it was total crap…nothing like the films
@@dongvermine Actually this game and Friday the 13th did insane amounts of research to get scenes and levels accurate to the films.
Love this game. It’s a 2000’s gem for what it is
@@dongvermine game was amazing and represented characters like the baurog perfectly. I loved the mines of moria map
Looks you, online was completely unusable to me on ps3.
I used to play the hell out of this, you could use the basic assassin to backstab and instant kill bosses, it was so fun but broken as hell, not to mention the Evil campaign was great
Dawg fr, also archers able to one shot with the powershot thing
Razing the shire was based
You... uh... you do realize bosses don't exist in this game, right?
Well, assuming it is still a lot like SW Battlefront. :p
@@khajiitimanus7432 he fights Saruman in the video
@@khajiitimanus7432 There are "bosses" like sarumon in some of the missions that can be gimmicked for maximum entertainment, like the witch king or elrond
Every time a battle ended with "it is I, Normal Person, come to do what [main character] could not" I cackled with laughter
I played this game as a kid. I remember loving it and playing Split-screen combat. its a fond memory for me.
1:55 “dark brotherhood initiate” had me fucking weak 😂
"Where's the first book."
There weren't any large scale battles in the first book. The biggest battles in Fellowship of the Ring had only 9 people (i.e. the "fellowship") on the side of the good guys.
You do at least get the the Second Age Battle of Mordor for the tutorial level, which is good.
They actually can make defence of Lothlorien against goblins and trolls, so you can fight as Lorien elves, also add some elves or rangers on Among Hen vs Uruk-Hai. EA made those battles in Battle for Middle Earth campaign and here they also can do that.
There is weathertop in the game... And i think it's the largest map lol
@@latewizard301 There were some big battles in the area earlier in the 3rd age, between forces of Arnor and those of the Witch King of Angmar, but that was long before the events of The Fellowship of the Ring.
@@ckmishn3664 talking about the game...
LOTR: conquest is the closest thing we can get to Star Wars: Battlefront III.
No... Just no
That’s funny because it’s true. 😆 😢
we got battlefront 3 and 4 with ea games
@@Arthurmadhal Yeah, EA, -1 and -2
@@Arthurmadhal They’re pretty but not the same.
Honestly, one of my favorite games when I was a kid. Brings back memories.
MY GOD that's a trip down memory lane. I remember playing this game so much, even on like 20 fps since my PC back then was terrible for it. Such good memories.
The fell beasts just dropping Frodo was the best thing I've seen all day
I heard
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in my head
The cherry on top was Frodo t-posing as he fell to his death
Do you ever look through the comments of a video and right as you get to a comment describing an event in the video, said event happens?
The way his body slid after hitting the ground lmao
I like to think it's a reference to the whopping 32 times Frodo fell over in the films
That thumbnail is so meta, I'm not sure if you're a genius or totally insane
He probably just googled "lotr star wars meme"
Which doesn't make it less amazing btw
@@L.K.48 can't find it anywhere else lol
I came for that thumbnail and screenshotted it. It's so good lmao
Ive been deceived! Its amusing, yes,...but im still deceived!
But seriously tho, i really wished it *was* ClassicFront2 mod. Just the imagery of Gandalf running to the frontlines with a clone blaster in hand, gunning down orc equivalents and exchanging fire with -Dooku- Saruman is....mh 👌
Top shelf.
(I didnt even know this game exist tbh. Maybe worth looking a playthru for it, just for that t-posing Frodo falling to his demise. lul)
all I remember from this game is that it changes the lore so some unnamed assassin guy backstabs all of the main enemies instead of anyone significant fighting them
Man there are so many great meta jokes in here. My favourite was ''Did you know that I broke my toe when I kicked that helmet?''
When I was 8, I saw this game selling at Office Deport of all places, and I thought "Man how cool would it be if it was just Battlefront 2 but Lord of the Rings... but it probably isn't. It's probably lame and I, as an 8 year old who doesn't get that many games, shouldn't get it." And every time I hear people say "it's literally just Battlefront 2 but Lord of the Rings" I get a little bit more depressed that I didn't have the crystal ball to see that I was right all along.
Damn, I feel the pain.
Office depot?!? Fr? I didn't think they had a video game section ever lol
I completely lost it when the Witch King steals Frodo and it just pans to Frodo falling to death.
i'm watching that part and i can't breathe
When the narration said *FRODO HAS FALLEN* I was thinking of how funny it was that it sounded as if a command post was taken, and then Frodo T-poses while falling and I lost my shit.
I didn’t forget this game. I own a copy. Still play it now and then. Wish it had more to the game. Like a Conquest mode like Battlefront where you chose a faction and conquer Middle-Earth for Sauron or Liberate it and you can make multiple armies to lead with their own individual leaders you play as or your own custom character.
Like Mount and Blade?
"We have him now, men, he's stuck between two tents!"
-JRR Tolkien
One of the best games I’ve ever played, it’s one of those to play with the boyz on a Saturday night . 10/10 Frodo is a OP scout also Orc Capitan Price , I love that
Games were goated back then now through...
yeah it's good, speacially if you like getting stun locked every two seconds
@@scopilio13 every class is overpowered in this game its fun af cuz that
"Alright random archer, Aragorn's dead, you're up!"
"What the fu--"
4:35 and Frodo die doing a T pose
This is not forgotten, I LITERALLY think about this game every single day. I used to play the demo ALL THE TIME on the PS3, and I could never remember its name!
Damn dude every day?
@@connor3284 He mustn't have a lot going for him. Or many games to play.
I love how they still have the voice updating you in battle sound like he's talking over a radio lol
*Hobbit 5-1 Requesting Air support*
@@fromaggio7654 The alternate universe where Gandalf decided walking around Middle Earth was too much effort and invented internal combustion.
Tanks and guns vs Trolls and swords. Orcs throw heads, Humans throw grenades.
@@VainerCactus0 He started to outfit the eagles with homing missiles
@@fromaggio7654 The Eagles would have got to Mordor much faster if they had afterburners. They would have been much more effective if they have JDAMS and air to air missiles.
If the good guys have this, I can only imagine what sort of devilry Sauron would come up with.
Imagine suicide trolls and nazgul dropping napalm.
Barad-dur would be a missile silo with ICBMs.
I remember me and my brother getting HEATED during split screen PVP of this game, we would do Hero battles with no AI, only scout on this one map that was basically a dark hallway with destroyed pillars in it and a pit of fire on one end and try and stab each other in the back.
Ds 1 pvp before it was cool
I swear there are maps in PVP (with AI) that are always tilted to one side winning.
@@MensHominis was like that in battlefront one before they balanced it out, Droidekas just takes so many soldiers to kill.
this was such a badass game i wish it came back, so severely underrated
I absolutely love your videos man. Your broad range of pop culture knowledge and all things I enjoy to play and watch is awesome. I appreciate all the references you put in your videos too, keep it up, can’t wait for the next video!
i remember playing this as a kid. played with my friends in split screen; seem to remember playing as frodo and ganking them from invis, one got mad and broke his controller. good times.
I should start asking friends to bring their own mice. I'm always afraid they're gonna break something.
Oboe: "It's a fair rematch. Gandalf and 500 soldiers vs the Balrog."
Lore: "It was in fact, not a fair rematch. Gandalf did not bring nearly enough meat shields."
Aren’t they both Ainor or something?
Gandalf beat the Balrog alone....barely. And it was mostly due to luck and he died in the process.
@@forsakenofgilead5209 Maiar but yes
@@TheGary108 that's a draw
I played this game to death with my brothers as a teenager. Definitely a flawed game, but it’ll always hold a special place in my cold, dead heart.
i never forgot this game, it got laserburned in my 360 when my brother knocked it over, this was like 13 years ago and i still think about that moment like twice a week
I lost my shit at televangelist gandalf especially at "If you want blessings of aluvatar upon you ,you must give me $500 for a private jet"
I literally subbed just for that lolol
Frodo T-posing while he falls to his death is something that I never knew I needed to see
This game when it came out was massively addicting and the online play was so good I am so sad they stopped this
3:50 knowing the lore of Balrogs that actually is a fair rematch.
I loved this game as a kid. Got it second hand for 8 bucks and immediately went holy shit its battlefront with lotr where could it really go wrong
The controls. That's where it went wrong.
So much went wrong. So much.
@@noconnection1839 yeah but they werent horrible. So who gives a fuck
Mindless fun. Best way to describe this game.
Also, this gameplay is literally an IGN reviewer
I don’t know why people who do gameplay videos always suck at playing games. This dude plays on the easiest difficulty too. Dying so many times on the easiest difficulty is something even a 10 year old wouldn’t do.
Gaming gets views so people who can’t actually play games still get views and subs cuz “LOL HES SO FUNNY WITH HIS JOKES!!!1!!!1!”
7:23 GoT season 8 in a nutshell
This really was how Rings of Power handled the lore isn't it...
The fact that I have never seen you use special powers hurt me greatly. Most heroes are really fun just going full zerg with maxed special bar :)
It looked like he was having a skill issue
I’d never be able to forget this game I played hundreds of hours of it, absolutely adore it still it felt really ahead of its time
Its more that we've regressed since then.
me too, a greta game
A thunberg one indeed
It wasnt ahead, it was behind BattleF 2, everyone at the time was saying this
I will say though that the melee combat is far better than Jedis in BF2
“Forgotten“
I literally played this just a few days ago and it always was kind of one of my favorite LOTR games
Bro really, thanks for bringing my childhood back. ♥️ Had tons of glorious moments with this game
I remember as a kid playing Battlefront 2 thinking "It would be great if they did this for TLotR" and then later I ended up playing this at a friend's house.
I remember the dark campaign's first mission being the most difficult thing in the game. Loved it though when I was younger
Holy shit yes, the room where you have to kill orcs to get a sufficient amount of blood was the hardest thing ever.
I found defending the second ring in minas tirith harder than that segment to be fair
I remember using the nazgul to hunt down Frodo and I pegged him in the head with the throwing axe right when he was about to toss the ring. I knocked him off the cliff, which would mean he and the ring fell in to the lava, so lore wise I lost the level 😆. Gameplay wise I won.
This was like my favorite game back in the day bro, so underrated: deserves a remaster
**Legolas runs in to an oliphaunt's leg and fucking dies**
That still only counts as one!
The day oboe said “bussin” was the day my soul left my body
Lost but not forgotten
I will forever remember this as an amazing game
local multiplayer was the gold
I LOVED this game. I remember playing it when I was very little. Never knew how to do the multiplayer options, thus never could play so. However I had great fun playing with the AI. About a year ago, I revisited the game and completed both Good and Evil campaigns. 10/10
I remember the multiplayer beta being one of the top 5 gaming experiences ive ever had
I used to play this all the time when I was a kid.
You’ve just unlocked a memory and I love you for it. Bashing out the campaign with friends on this are some of my best memories from early highschool
Love how he was like, this is hard, and wasn't using any of his abilities in the first level
7:46 best moment xD
My buddy and I played the Isengard level a couple of months ago. At the end we baited Saruman out of the tower to see if the AI ents would pick him up and throw him.
They did not, in fact he murdered like 70 of our guys (ents included) before we got bored and killed him ourselves.
This was such a fun game to play on Xbox Live. I used to know how to get out of all the maps and explore the outer boundaries. You could use a warrior and if you did an air attack just right you could enter whole new sections of Minas Tirth that were not normally accessible.
same with the mage lmao
This is such a nostalgic game. I remember my sister and pulling up the 1v1s and assassins back stab 1 hit kill was stupid as heck
Me and my best friend would play this all the time when we were younger, I’m so glad to see this video pop into my feed
I assumed this was hyperbole, but it's like literally just BF2 in LoTR. Can't believe I didn't remember this game
I hope one day they make an Ancient Rome themed game like this
Lol who would all the hero characters be?
+Helix Moss
Plenty to choose from during the civil war. Caesar, Pompey, Mark Antony, Cleopatra maybe. Could probably include Boudicca or Vercingetorix for one of the alternate campaigns against the Romans.
I'd actually really like to play as Alaric or someone while sacking Rome with the Germanic tribes too, that'd be cool. Probably should have a side campaign in Judea too, then you can play as Jesus in the later part and get the game banned in certain countries for blasphemy.
@@redeye4516 - Damn, you got it all figured out!
Dynasty Warriors, Roman edition. Really, I think anything can be turned into a musou-esque game with enough time and effort.
Man Mount and Blade can really do the trick with a proper mod
"I'm playing on controller by the way, which is why I can't hit a single Urukai Grunt"
also
"E to climb ladder" 1:00
Brings back memories messing around in pvp gamemodes with my sister and having a blast. Remember the balancing being super off but was good enough for it to be one of our favorites to play together.
I was playing this a couple days ago no joke. I do really wish there was a remake of this game that fixed the balance issues
Ah, so much potential, so many EA decisions.
You think the devs went "bah why do we need AI that can drive the elephants?"
Nah that was EA.
I never forgot this game. I used to play this all the time with my friends in high school. It was so funny watching them pilot legendary heroes only to instantly get killed by my rogue.
I remember playing this game in Walmart on the demo consoles and I was so blown away at the time XD
6:33 no that still only counts as one!
This was my favorite LOTR game that I'd played.
Yeah, it's technically not as good as some of the others, but man, it was just way too fun for me
I remember playing this against all my friend in split screen and then playing solo I loved playing as that specific type of troll with the armor on lol
The nostalgia man
Such a great game it was i always loved the combo with the warriors
This was one of my absolute favorite games as a kid
I PLAYED THIS ALL THE TIME WITH MY FRIEND. Good campaign is not as fun, but in the mines of moria you can watch everyone "Rally at THE STAIRS!" Only to push each other off and jump to their dooms. Sad music and everything plays its amazing.
Also, makes were so op and out of place I loved it. Rogues too! Ever seen sauroman or Gandalf just get decked by a dude with a dagger? It's amazing.
"Mom can we get shadow of war"
"No we have shadow of war at home"
🤣
Last I checked my mate and I had the world record for the evil campaign on co-op. Sadly it's not official as we didn't record it but we were just messing around and beat it by a fair amount
0:26 the first movie was not apart of the War of The Ring. The first battle of this war was Helm’s Deep as all the other things we see are ambushes and raids. The Battle of Isengard happens at the same time. The Battle of Osgiliath is the third and at a similar time Aragorn and the army of the undead defeats the Corsairs in the South. The battle of Pelenor Fields happens as Aragorn sails north on the stolen Corsair ships. Rohan intervenes but the Battle of Pelenor Fields doesn’t end in victory for the good guys until Aragorn arrives. As the bloody Battle of Pelenor fields goes on Sauron send a massive legion of Easterlings to fight in the Battle for Erebor or The Lonely Mountain. Lastly we have the last gathering of men only counting to maybe below a thousand fighting at the climax that was The Battle of the Black Gate which happens right as Frodo and Sam made it to Mount Doom and the ring was destroyed by a clumsy Gollum.
In books there were tens of big battles of Rohan and Isengard before Helms Deep
@@avrace2708 This is true. Many village raids were conducted against Rohan, but we never SEE a true full scale battle until Helms Deep. There are also other skirmishes such as everything going on at Gondor’s borders. But as I said we don’t see these things making the first true induction of the War of the Ring from the POV of our characters being Helm’s Deep. Especially in the movies we don’t see any battles in Rohan just Orcs burning down villages.
Looking back at this comment I was still wrong though. The War of Ring really started way far back in Gondor, but the point stands that things escalate after Helms Deep.
This was kinda cool, i remember seeing gameplay for the game as a kid and some years later i saw it on sale. Played it all the time up until Shadow of Mordor came out lol
I never forgot this game. It was so epic. Such a cool concept.
1:46 *This Is More Book Friendly Than The Film*
I remember this game from when I was a kid but could never think of the name! Thanks so much honestly.
This man really didn't use any powers for so long. Legendary YT Plays. Love it.
Having just played MW2 again a few weeks ago, this reference was funny as hell.
I remember playing this with my cousin, every time he managed to get a hero character I’d just swap to the assassin and backstab
Oh my god, I remember playing this at my mom's friends house. Her son had a xbox that I played this on, And never knew the name of it. It stuck with me for a long time for whatever reason. This video just helped me solve an old mystery. Damn, thanks
I never forgot this game, whenever I think of a LOTR game I think of this. This is how a LOTR game should be!
I loved this game. I was responsible for discovering several popular out-of-bound glitches, with my most cherished accomplishment being at the black gate.
Spam a move that pushes you forward (easiest with Legolas's shield surf or a warrior rush, with you needing to be attacked to glitch in if other class). You want to press your character's body into the pointed metal triangles just beside the gate in the nearby rockside.
This game lives rent-free in my mind. It was so much fun to play this as a kid.
TH-cam recommended a banger today
I don't even remember when I played this, great upload! 👍