Play Lord Of The Rings - Conquest, The (E) Online

Lord of the Rings: Conquest on the Nintendo DS came out in 2009, developed by Pandemic Studios. It was part of that wave of handheld tie-ins to bigger console games, trying to bring large-scale battles to a smaller screen. The DS was full of ambitious adaptations around that time, and this one aimed to capture the feel of the films without the graphical power of its bigger siblings.

You control different characters from both good and evil factions, hacking through enemies with simple combos, using special abilities like Gandalf’s lightning or the Balrog’s whip. The main goal is to capture control points across battlefields like Minas Tirith or the Black Gate, fighting screen by screen. The combat is straightforward, relying on timing and positioning more than complex inputs, though the camera can be awkward in tight spaces. It moves at a steady pace, not too hard but not trivial either, and playing it feels like a condensed, slightly messy version of a bigger war.