The Lord of the Rings: Tactics PSP
  • Publisher: EA Games
  • Release Date: Nov 8, 2005
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Metascore
64 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 28 Critics What's this?

User Score
7.5 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 17 Ratings

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  • Summary: Return to Middle-earth in this tactical RPG where you decide the fate of The Third Age. Build a Fellowship of heroes or create the ultimate force of evil with hundreds of skill, weapon, and ability upgrades at your disposal. Send your heroes and villains from The Lord of the Rings into battle across legendary locations from the film trilogy and J.R.R. Tolkien's fiction. Seize the high ground, set traps, and ambush the enemy in intense single-player battles or strategic multiplayer skirmishes. The board is set, the pieces are in motion. Middle-earth awaits you. Play as the 12 Heroes and Villains of Middle-earth - Build your Fellowship for good or evil in your quest to capture, or destroy, The One Ring. Fight Across Middle-earth - Engage the enemy in battle arenas that re-create locations from all three The Lord of the Rings films as well as J.R.R. Tolkien's legendary books. Gain a Strategic Advantage - Hundreds of in-depth skill options and an item-based battle system offer a variety of character customization options. Deep Tactical Gameplay - A simultaneous turn-based encounter system for multiplayer delivers a gripping four-person combat experience unrivalled by any previous Tactics game. Multiplayer Innovation - Good and evil fight on the same side for the first time in an exclusive Wi-Fi multiplayer mode. [Electronic Arts]… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 28
  3. Negative: 4 out of 28
  1. Games Radar
    80
    A very decent strategy-RPG that scores extra points for being the only full-on PSP role-player available so far. Add five marks if you're a massive LotR fan. [PSM2]
  2. Cheat Code Central
    74
    The four-player mode is a great addition and will certainly beef up the replay value.
  3. Game Chronicles
    71
    I can think of a dozen things that would have made this game better, or at least more attractive to the casual gamer, but for those who love the Lord of the Rings and need a solid strategy fix on their PSP, this will easily fill that need for a few months to come.
  4. Play Magazine
    45
    The game, however, also gleefully stomps over its source material when it allows these same tiny hobbits to impede the path of a huge and insanely powerful Balrog. [Jan 2006, p.53]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 9
  3. Negative: 1 out of 9
  1. RalphC.
    9
    most addicitve psp game I've played. Iif you like other tactical rpg's this is a must. Presentation-wise, things seem a bit rushed though.
  2. JohnL.
    8
    This game is really good. The graphics are pretty good (The textures are really ugly, but the characters are animated smoothly). The sound is pretty good too. Each campaign (good and evil) lasts at least 12 hours, and multiplayer is extremely fun. My only problem is some levels are way too hard, compared to the rest. Another problem is how few units you control which causes Helms Deep and Minis Tirith to feel really screwed up. The graphics are amazing at how much detail there is, like when you fight in front of Minis Tirith you can see the whole city even if you can't play on it that level.This is a must buy for fans of Lord of the Rings (me) or strategy.… Expand
  3. MikeC.
    7
    Higher score if this was priced a bit lower, say around 20-30 bucks.
  4. Seb
    4
    EA did the bare minimum to make this a "game" that is both tactical and true to the license. They absolutely did not go out of their way to make any of the items worthwhile, the camera useful, or the gameplay any fun. You move units on a grid, and that's as tactical as it gets. The camera is useless because it is character-centric as opposed to battlefield-centric, keeping you from getting a good view of the situation. There are only a handful of items, but every variation in strength is listed separately, artificially inflating the amount of items. Same for the skills. And there is no incentive to manage your units since you can play any mission over as many times as you want, always getting the same gold and always getting some experience. My units are level 4 with thousands of gold, without ever having started the second mission. The game is an insult to the player's intelligence. But it is a pretty, decently coded insult.… Expand

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