Guardians of Middle-earth

Very fun game! Not the greatest game out there, but exceptionally fun if you play with friends! I highly recommend playing with a controller, as the game is not designed with keyboard and mouse in mind.

Game does not work with mouse and keyboard controls. I bought this game on sale without reading the other reviews, and waited too long to get a refund. Refund is on me, but not clearly indicating the need for a controller is on Steam and the game support still selling this to the public.

So far, the biggest disappointment in my gaming experience. For sole reason alone - the people responsible did not care enough;

I've been waiting for Guardians of Middle-earth since it was announced nearly 10 years ago. It had my wholehearted support. Jawdroppingly watching the teaser trailers of characters and their techniques, alongside concept arts - I was certain, this shall be one of the best games of the Tolkien's Legendarium.

The game had (and surprisingly, still has, if anyone would simply, properly look after it) all of the potential to stand among DOTA, LOL and MOBA games alike, yet unfortunately, it met an undeserving, heartbreaking end. Instead of fixing the handful of technical issues the game has encountered - it was abandoned without any further notice. Year after year I've been checking up on it, hoping to see some issues resolved, and year after year I kept getting disappointed. Around three years back, the latest technical mishap I've encountered was the cursor simply not moving properly from one place to another; I was uncommonly confident, that they would fix this simplistic bug at least. Today, I've checked on the game again, only to see the issue still in place.

The Battle for Middle-earth was a game (one of the dearest, till this day) I've spent countless hours on back in the 00s; the remastered and overhauled edition of the game promises to reach the potential Guardians of Middle-earth has failed to.

I hope to see the day, when I'll be urged to change this review to a positive one. Shamelessly, I never lose hope in what I love.

as a HUGE Tolkien fan i have to say this game had charm .... i mean, going Gandalf toplane is something made out of dreams! i only wish i could play the game agains AI bots, wish to play it again.

While most reviews are negative, I'm enjoying my time with GOME. I played many hours on Xbox 360. The characters are enjoyable and feel unique. You'll mainly play against bots since not many people play this. Survival is fun as well.

Purchase if you like Middle Earth and don't mind playing with only friends and bots. Don't purchase if you're looking for a competitive multiplayer experience.

Win 10 has mouse issues. You'll need a controller to play. The controls are fine and work pretty well.

The game is literaly unplayable as soon as i load the game and get to the main menu screen the mouse cursor has an uncontrolable freak out so i cant click anything or play the game. I have tested multiple mice and still no change as well as a fresh reinstall.

Such a shame as i would happily spend money on this game but i cant even do that let alone play the game.

0/10

Dont bother buying to many bugs

THEY should make this game Free to Play, fix the bugs and see what happens. I remember playing it on the PS3, it had potential, but the bugs destroyed it. Too bad the community is dead.

It's a terrible game. It was great on consoles, where it was made for, but the developers abandoned it hardcore.

I mean just go to their website, http://www.warnerbros.com/videogame/guardians-middle-earth

It says access denied. That's when you know it's done. I'm not even sure why this game is on steam anymore.

Nice game for LoTR fans. All the charecters are reallistic and their abilities are logical. The voices are nice too. But the whole gameplay is not so nice. 8/10

Just Horrible, please save yourself and stay away. I, being a huge fan of LOTR, bought the mithril edition for Eighty dollars! 80! The mithril edition only gives you re-skins of other charchters. Play League of Legends, or dota(Btw they're free!). Oh, I forgot that their are only 6 charchters to play, that is without paying more money. Ironically, they're all re-skins of each other! Spare yourself, like I wished I had, and DON'T buys this game!

Pre-purchased this game, unfortunately this game was dead even before it was released. It is a poor console port full of bugs, the dev support has been inexistant.

The AI is poor and it is nigh impossible to find anyone for a multiplayer game; then good luck playing with the huge lag peaks if by chance you happen to find another player and get into the game (the rest of the teams will be filled with comp).

The only good mode is players vs waves of ennemy in a cave, but here again no one is playing and you can't play with AI allies.

Do not waste your time and money with this game.

At this point the game is dead. Official forums are full of unrelated bot spam, no official postings since Jan of 2014.
Shame really, it held such potential if they had taken it seriously and not just jumped on the "just another moba" bandwagon.
Avoid at all costs, even single player gets monotonous.

The biggest problem with this MOBA is that it doesn't have a clean feel to it, smooth movement, easily explained abilities, fluid auto attacks, and super OP/Nerfed to hell characters. I'll go through each of these, but first, I'd like to state one of the cool things about this MOBA:
The system for upgrading your minions/upgrading towers is A: Easy to understand, B: actually worth using, and C: works.

Now, onto the problems:
The game feels like it wasn't polished or cleaned, just thrown out to the public because of deadlines. It would be like if you took LoL from Season 1, and compared it as an equal MOBA to Season 4 LoL. Season 1 feels gritty and awkward compared to season 4, and it's becaused it's been cleaned and polished since then. This game needs that cleaning and polishing badly.
Movement in this game is unresponsive and delayed. You'll be trying to dodge a skill shot, or just move in random ways to fool your opponent. Well, unfortunately, even in offline mode, it takes about half a second for your character to respond.
The abilities are convoluted and stated in weird ways that don't just say "roots your enemy for 1.5 seconds" or so on. It takes up 3-4 sentences describing it, and not really telling you exactly what it does.
They had an interesting idea for the auto attacks, having melee auto attacks cleave an area in front of them, while ranged attacks will hit the first enemy in front of them. The problem is that auto attacks are delayed, like the movement. So by the time you auto attack, your enemy has probably killed you.
Some characters in this game are just extremely powerful and others just pointless to use. Gandalf the Grey, his E ability deals massive amounts of True damage, and it scales. It also roots the enemy till after the damage hits. It's insane. Whereas Gollum/Smeagol is supposed to be an assassin who leaps in, stuns and silences, getting resets on his ultimate, but he deals 0 damage with any of his abilities. Those are just 2 examples.

If the devs were to really focus on making this game work, I think it could be something great. However, it seems they've given up, and nothing is getting fixed.

English and Russian versions:

Say "Hello! Burn in hell!" to the poor clone of the DotA (free to play, by say!). I don't see much sense (this game don't worth it) in a deep description of all the aspects of its boring and slow gameplay as well as faint allusions to the Tolkien's masterpiece. If you still intrested - check youtube' reviews, people there don't spare poison.
The only emotion you get after buying such game is regret. Offensive waste of money... =(


Это вообще долбанный шлак! Жалкое подобие Доты!
Не вижу смысла подробно объяснять про занудный геймплей и отсутствие какой-либо логической связи с произведением Толкиена, поскольку даже издеваться над этой игрой как-то тошно.
Но если всё же есть желание - посмотрите youtube-видео по ссылке в комментах.
Купив такие игры, жалеешь, что нельзя их безвозвратно удалить, и они останутся в твоей библиотеке навсегда... Напоминая, как ты жестко налажал, купив её... =(

10/10 It Exists -IGN

Tired of plain old fully functioning sensible MOBAs with strong controls and some form of accessibility?
Tired of boring old precise mouse movements without a hint of unnecessary acceleration?
Are you bored of tooltips with a solid explanation of the skill in question?
Would you rather have cameras that don't pan in a sensible fashion and move when you point your mouse at the minimap?
Do you despise interesting and well-thought-out character and skill design?
Do you really love it when you just paid money for a broken-down version of the Ferrari you could have tried out for free across the street?

If you answered yes to any of the aforementioned questions, then this game is for you!
Features Include:
-Broken Mouse Precision
-Generic, Messily-Constructed Tooltips
-Awkward Camera Movement That Basically Forces You To Lock To Your Character
-Characters Which Come From The Lord of the Rings Lore (well thank goodness)
-Like Most Excellent Established MOBAs, It's FREE! (with the payment of $20 + Additional Cost If You Want To Have The Full Content Without Hours of Playtime)

If you're anything like me, you love the Lord of the Rings Franchise and the mechanics of MOBA gameplay.

And you'll love this ga-

I can't.

I just.

I-

Please kill me.

This game is painful to play. You can't move when you type, some times the controls dont respond. How can you play a moba when you can't even land a combo cause one of the skill just wont cast for no specific reason.

This game is worst than catching aids.

Horrible. Even for a die-hard Tolkien fan, this game is so broken avoid it. Also good luck finding any matches, I had to resort to bot play because it took to long to find anything. Even then it's uninteresting and dull. DOTA 2 or League of Legends is much better.

its league of legends but lord of the rings style. fun yes. but i dont care for another repeditive game that is the same concept as league of legends. in my own opinion, not to offend anyone, but this game is boring and dull too me.

Do not buy this game. It was terrible on the consoles, and it did not improve on the PC. Since it started, I still cannot join a match with a full complement of other human players. Most of my games are against bots only. More to the point, DOTA 2 is superior in every way to this game, and that game is for free. I see no reason to spend money on this travesty of a MOBA.

This game is poo stain because it is.

I like the characters like the big fat ogre with sweaty nipples but that is irrelevant.

The queue times take longer than it takes to cook a small child on Mark 10 and I nearly fell asleep.

When I got ingame it put me into a 5 v 5 match with 4 bots on each team and some guy who spent a bajillion ungandan dollars on the game. He proceeded to wipe the floor with me like my mother did after I threw up in the kitchen.