Whoever said it earlier i second. DO NOT buy LOTR conquest. Dont even rent it (which i thank to god did). It was a terrible game. There is no immersion and i think iactually yawned about halfway through. There is no challenge whatsoever. Hell there isn't even any advantage between the factions. Imagine Stars Wars battlefront, now add swords and other archaic weapons, storyline characters that each have carbon copies on the other side, no special advantages between the two sides, a boring camapign, and no replay value. Oh and also take whatever image of it you have and halve that by two.

As to other games i personally believe that the LOTR total war mod is probably better than any game the CA would make (no offense CA there just aint anything like a game made by lovers of whatever its about)