The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War Critic Reviews

The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War is a surprisingly deep, well-presented mobile strategy game. It’s faithful to its source material, too, both in terms of the characters and locations it brings in from the existing films and the new content it adds to the canon. The game’s slow pace may prove off-putting for more casual players, but if you’ve been hankering for something approaching a real strategy experience on mobile it’s well worth a look.

There is some depth in The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War that can attract strategy fans, but this is clearly a product engineered on mobile market and with micro-transactions in mind: it could stand inside this new breed of games as one of the best, but you have to accept many compromises.