The larger creatures have the same blockiness (particularly the horse hooves), and this weakens Tolkien's somewhat humorless tone.
It also features the same 3/4ths perspective, same limited camera options, same cartoonish 3D graphics, and the characters even run with the same hoppy-skippy gait (though it's toned down a bit). War of the Ring seems to imitate Warcraft III, all the way down to the menu screens for each campaign. In fact, it looks almost too familiar it looks like Blizzard's best-selling Warcraft III and, unfortunately, it suffers a bit from the comparison. But that doesn't mean the game doesn't look very familiar. The voices don't sound like the movie characters, the weapons and architecture aren't what we've seen on the screen, and the orcs don't look like Peter Jackson's orcs. Vivendi managed to secure the book license to counter Electronic Arts' artful grab of the film license, and that's why you won't see anything from the movies in its new real-time strategy release, War of the Ring. Anyone who has read the books and/or seen the films knows all about that.
