Retro Review: War of the Ring (2004)
The Legend There are licensed games, and then there are games that make people shut up, lean over the board, and start speaking in full Tolkien narrator voice by hour two. War of the Ring is one of the rare ones. The kind where a licensed property stopped being a ceiling and became a launchpad. When Nexus Editrice released the first edition in 2004, nobody expected it to become a stone-cold all-time classic. Most licensed games of that era were competent at best — pretty boxes, middling gameplay, shelf filler. This one was different. ...
