In LORD OF THE RINGS: CONQUEST, Electronic Arts tries to immerse you into Tolkien's epic fantasy world of hobbits and orcs, except this is the movie world based on the Peter Jackson's trilogy that ended in 2003. The character images are of the movie actors, but the voices are not. In this game, the most touted storyline revolves around your being the bad guy, the Sauron orc who tries to stop the magic ring from being wrecked. In fact, one of the trailer's tag lines is, "It's good to be bad."
In the single player campaign mode, you first play as the forces of good. As you play though this mode of 15 levels, you can play as a troll, a wizard, an archer, a swordsman, an orc, even an Ent, those giant trees that are part human. Up to 150 characters might appear on screen at one time during battles, the most amazing of which is killing those big elephants things, olyphaunts. You'll relive the awesome, action-packed scenes from the movies, but be prepared to be knocked down flat way too much. Playing though the game on the side of good allows you to unlock the evil campaign. And the online mode allows you to play with up to 16 players during which you can control the giants like trolls and Ents.