
Certain ranks unlock slots on your D-pad where you can map extra perks that you’ve earned from some battles. These points level up your rank and unlock more skills for you. When you upgrade your towers, you upgrade your armies and you can only do that after you’ve leveled up yourself.Īfter a match you can get experience points for certain skills, and yes you can even get points for having the most deaths. Matches are 5 players per side, and the Battlefield throws out armies for each side. Players can level up by killing armies, controlling points, destroying towers, upgrading towers, killing other players, and the list goes on. When you level up on the battlegrounds, you can upgrade skills and to be fair, each battleground starts every player at level one. You still have a basic skill that is strong enough to get the kills you need in order to drive the forces back. In-game is pretty simple with a straight forward layout for buttons which are mapped to special skills that take time to regenerate. The gameplay is broken down into 2 parts, in-game and in-lobby. This game pulls away from your crappy hack and slashes fest and proves that if you can play it cool and try not to die, you will be rewarded by skill and enjoyment. You can easily ignore strategy and go for a hack and slash style but you’ll quickly find yourself the only one dying. There’s a deep level of game play set up that really needs to be appreciated. Guardians of Middle-Earth is a third person game and the gameplay here is quite simple, destroy the enemy’s tower before they destroy yours. Most of their games used to be first person shooters with an emphasis on a story. Guardians of Middle-Earth is a little different from their titles previously mentioned. Monolith has clearly shown that they can be faithful to the content of the tie-in but also expand to make an enjoyable experience. If you have not played any of these games, you’re truly missing out on some great games with a strong element of storytelling.


Back in the day they were responsible for Tron 2.0, The Matrix Online, as well as their own IP No One Lives Forever. If you’re going to select one company for tie-in games, you really should look no further than Monolith Productions.

For the most part, Lord of the Ring games have been fairly entertaining, especially The Two Towers, but it has been quite some time since then, and even the MMO version wasn’t nearly as popular as it could have been. Guardians of Middle-Earth is being released to coincide with the release of the new Hobbit movies to the theaters.
