Ok, here are my thougths on the game.
Positive:
It's ok really, if you like Battlefront it will definitely enjoy LotR: Conquest. Basically it is the same you have your control points where you spawn and you have certain tasks to take care of while you're playing the game such as holding out within a perimeter for a certain time, killing a certain unit or destroying certain constructions. What is a big difference here is this - in Battlefront you had a certain number of reinforcements that helped you out, if that number reached 0 then it's game over; in Conquest it does not matter at all how often your buddies die, it matters only how often you have died. So you have a certain ammount of lives and when this reaches 0 it's game over. It is for me a lot easier since I only have to take care of myself during the battles, my guys just keep on streaming. You only have to take care of other units at times, such as escorting Frodo in Osgiliath.
So yeah, nice game and fun missions, I enjoy them even though they often have only very little to do with the books or even with the films. For example in Isengard you end up running into Orthanc with Gandalf and "kill" Saruman with lightning bolts... what?!
But otherwise it is quite entertaining and although I have not yet tested multiplayer with friends I did a little session in it alone and it seems to be nice to play against your pals.
Negative:
My biggest concern is the price, I feel that the game is not worth what you are expected to pay for it.
Another big problem is the quite short single player campaign. In the end it's only 16 missions (8 good and 8 bad) and each of them takes about 15 minutes if you know what to do already. I don't know how the last mode is like (hero or smth like that), I guess it's hard to play, but still I already feel no urge to play any of the missions I have already played up till now.
So yeah, you get to maybe play for say 10 hours till you get everything done on moderate difficulty after you've been training a bit on easy.
Also, some of the ideas are so far-fetched and out of Arda that I really wonder who ever came up with that...
Conclusion:
If you can afford it, if you like Battlefront and if you want to play some nice Middle-earth battles in nice graphics and poor story then you've hit the jackpot! Otherwise, forget about it...
PS: I've just finished killing mumakil with catapults at the Pelennor Fields.
