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Play Overview
The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War (2021), also called Lord of the Rings: War, is an online strategy game where you play against other players in factions and try and conquer land. It includes all of Tolkien's world, from Hobbiton to Rivendell and Isengard to Barad-dûr in a huge map filled with monsters and resources you can use to expand your army. This combines with deep combat and strategy to make it an engaging and unique way to build an army and conquer the land of Middle-Earth.
Set concurrently with the events of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, a rising darkness grows in the east, one which you can either choose to ally with or fight against. You are given a ring of power, and choose one of several factions to align with, such as Isengard, Mordor, Rohan, Gondor, and Lothlórien. You start a small settlement somewhere in that faction's land and must grow and expand your power and control to prevent other factions from taking control.
You conscript soldiers to join your cause and grow your army, sending it out to capture more land and gather resources. You can recruit commanders to your army as well, including the likes of famous characters such as Gandalf, Elrond and Boromir. Your work in your faction of hundreds of players to capture regional capitals and gain control of areas of land.
There are also smaller daily quests, campaigns, and special missions that unlock extra rewards. You can use the resources and rewards you get to upgrade your settlement; build forts that can expand your movement range, upgrading barracks and resource production, and unlock extra forces you can draft into your army.
Within your large faction, you can join a smaller fellowship of players. In this fellowship, you exchange resources, unlock more rewards and complete missions that can help you claim victory. You can join with other players to take down particularly large challenges, such as capitals or dragons, and you can befriend individual players for mutual benefit.
It's a complex game that features a surprisingly deep combat system, along with a huge map brimming with life, and puts you in total command of your play style. It's a good game for fans of games such as Clash of Clans, or the world of Tolkien, be it in the form of video games such as the Middle-Earth series, books or films, and offers a new way to engage with players around the world in a strategic and tactical setting.
Our examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War 2 years ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 9 months ago.
Set concurrently with the events of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, a rising darkness grows in the east, one which you can either choose to ally with or fight against. You are given a ring of power, and choose one of several factions to align with, such as Isengard, Mordor, Rohan, Gondor, and Lothlórien. You start a small settlement somewhere in that faction's land and must grow and expand your power and control to prevent other factions from taking control.
You conscript soldiers to join your cause and grow your army, sending it out to capture more land and gather resources. You can recruit commanders to your army as well, including the likes of famous characters such as Gandalf, Elrond and Boromir. Your work in your faction of hundreds of players to capture regional capitals and gain control of areas of land.
There are also smaller daily quests, campaigns, and special missions that unlock extra rewards. You can use the resources and rewards you get to upgrade your settlement; build forts that can expand your movement range, upgrading barracks and resource production, and unlock extra forces you can draft into your army.
Within your large faction, you can join a smaller fellowship of players. In this fellowship, you exchange resources, unlock more rewards and complete missions that can help you claim victory. You can join with other players to take down particularly large challenges, such as capitals or dragons, and you can befriend individual players for mutual benefit.
It's a complex game that features a surprisingly deep combat system, along with a huge map brimming with life, and puts you in total command of your play style. It's a good game for fans of games such as Clash of Clans, or the world of Tolkien, be it in the form of video games such as the Middle-Earth series, books or films, and offers a new way to engage with players around the world in a strategic and tactical setting.
Our examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War 2 years ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 9 months ago.
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Play Style
This is an Adventure and Strategy game with Action, Collecting and Fighting elements. You can play this by yourself or as a 1000-player online game. Each server is populated by hundreds or even thousands of players all vying for control of land, resources and capitals. In your fellowship of players, the number of member slots available increases as you play to well in excess of 50.
You can play this game in the following styles:
Duration
Play Time: This game will take between 90 hours and 100 hours to complete. You play on a server that continually builds and grows, and this means that while a battle may only take a few minutes or even seconds, there are hundreds of hours of play time available in expanding, conquering and achieving domination.
Benefits
Age Ratings
Content Rating
User-Generated Content: This game includes content created by other players, such as maps, outfits and items, that are not reflected in the game rating.
Users Interact: The game enables players to interact and communicate with each other, so may expose players to language usually associated with older rated games.
Rated 12+ on the Apple App Store for Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References and Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence.
Skill Level
11+ year-olds usually have the required skill to enjoy this game. Still, it's important for parents and guardians to consider the maturity required to process the game content. It's also important to ensure children understand in-game purchases and have spending limits set-up.
Account Rating
You don’t need a platform subscription to play this game online.
Costs
The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War
This game is free to play, but there are other costs associated with this game:
- In-Game Loot Boxes: Additional in-game purchases are offered for items that enhance the experience. These include in-game purchases of random items (known as 'loot boxes') that offer a chance of getting rare/higher-value items although common/lower-value items are more frequent.
- In-Game Pass: Purchase a season/battle pass to gain access to limited in-game purchases, reward items and other aspects of the game.
You can buy mystery boxes that will give you random rewards, as well as unlocking a season pass that allows you to unlock extra rewards.
You can also buy gems, which you can use to speed building up, buy more troops, resources and more. However, you earn these at a relatively quick rate while playing without paying any money.
The items purchasable range from £1 to £100 in price.
It's important to set up your accounts and devices appropriately. More information is on our Financial Resources page.
Game Details
Release Date: 23/09/2021
Price: Free
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Players: 1 (1000 online)
Genres: Adventure, Strategy (Action, Collecting and Fighting)
Accessibility: 24 features
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid, Open World and Persistant World
Developer: Net Ease Global (@NetEase_Global)
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