ORIGINAL: Jim_H
I could never quite work out whether it was a good game providing you'd never played LotR II or whether it was just a mediocre game in its own right. Gog have III for $5.99, so I might just buy it for that price and judge for myself [:)]
Well, i belong to the very small, even tiny, group of Lords II players who do enjoy Lords of the realm III. As i knew about the game only shortly before it's release, i didn't build up much expectations and played the game with a fairly open mind. Now with this in mind and considering that the game isn't the newest anymore, some points:
- AI is good and you'll have a hard time to win some scenarios
- It's an RTS and you cannot pause the strategy map when you fight a battle so you'll have to chose which battles you want to fight.
- Don't expect anything close to Lords II...there's absolutely nothing similar.
- There are 4 campaigns based on history: Lords of the Realm III
- Most maps can be played between 1 hour and 1 hour and a 1/2
- It's not a great game but it's fairly good if you take it for what it is.
Cheers
