
We welcome to you to Fate of the Ring, a open world Lord of The Rings's roleplay discord set in the 3rd age, after the battle of Helm's deep and before the battle of Minas-Tirith. Heck, the game still boots with a warning that the servers aren't live despite going live late last night.Mae Govannen friend. This is more than likely an issue with the servers that just went live, meaning the game heavily relies on a server connection for something as simple as a poorly-built kingdom builder. Screen transitions are jolted and jarring, not to mention often delayed, leaving the player to tap on the screen waiting for something to happen. It also seems odd that NetEase would splash out on this license to then cheap out on the game's development, and I assure you, this game is cheap in the worst ways. What's odd is that NetEase assuredly spent a sizeable chunk of change on the rights to offer the likenesses and lore from the movies, although it didn't splurge on actor voices, and so you have this vast disconnect where the characters look as they should, but sound nothing like the actors in the movies. The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War is a lazy branded cash-grab. In the end, the $109.99 in-app purchases listed on the Play Store explain all.


Clearly, NetEase doesn't want anyone to know what the game offers until a large amount of time has been wasted invested. It's an extremely lackluster kingdom builder that's filled with multiple currencies, loot boxes, a stamina system, a painful forced tutorial, and you're locked out of the game's settings and store until you complete the first chapter. You can watch the latest trailer for The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War above, but it does its best to avoid showing any gameplay, and for a good reason, this game stinks.
