The Lord of the Rings: Tactics

December 8, 2005 Amaze Entertainment Electronic Arts
Strategy Turn-based strategy (TBS)
PSP
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Return to Middle-earth in this tactical RPG and decide the fate of The Third Age. Build a Fellowship of heroes or create a force of evil with hundreds of skill, weapon, and ability upgrades. Send your armies into battle across legendary locations from the film trilogy and J.R.R. Tolkien's fiction. A simultaneous turn-based multiplayer system delivers a combat unrivaled by any Tactics game. The board is set, the pieces are in motion. Middle-earth awaits you.
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Release Date December 8, 2005
Developer Amaze Entertainment
Publisher Electronic Arts
Game Modes Single player
Perspective Bird view / Isometric
Themes Fantasy