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Remember a few posts ago where I said that I had too many games lined up to play and I was going to get ruthless with the RTS games? Well, I went on the first date with both Lords of the Realm 2 and Total Annihilation: Kingdoms, and both ended with, "it's a school night, I'd better get home." Although, I did tell TAK that we could be friends.

LOTR 2 just didn't seem to have enough hook to make up for being so dry and homely. The turn-based side of the coin probably could've held water, but the real-time combat was just too simplistic. Kudos to Impressions, though, for what I think is one of the first attempts to marry turn-based strategy with real-time combat.

TAK, on the other hand, didn't show me any innovations in the seven missions that I gave it, and simply thrashed around in its own mediocrity. Gorgeous graphics, though, and it certainly sported a more engaging single player campaign than its big brother, Total Annihilation.