LOTR: War in the North and Stronghold 3

I just realize Stronghold comes out tomorrow while the new LOTR game comes out in a week. I guess they are getting over shadowed from the other big titles coming out. Anyone getting these games? LOTR looks like a hack and slash that you can play with two other friends online. Gamespot has an hour of gameplay footage on the front page. Stronghold 3 I'm not so sure about. I never played the first two and I read the 2nd game in the series wasn't very good and very buggy. I think I'll pass on both until I read some reveiws. Skyrim is too close and I'm too set on playing that game to try anything else out.

i still dont get wat the lotr game is . is it a rpg or hack and slash game. a year ago they said it was a rpg but now it just seems like a hack and slash were u go place to place. im defs picking up stronghold 3 down the line thou

LOTR is bizarre in the purchasing sense. Greenman has it available as Steam game. It's been mentioned it will use Steam with Steam achievements etc.
Only a week to go and no mention of it at all on Steam itself.

War in the North looks... like crap tbh

ill be getting Stronghold 3 though