I never got too deep into it, but I enjoyed ~10 hours of it before getting distracted by other games. It felt more like a park business simulator like Roller Coaster Tycoon, rather than an elaborate park and ride designer like Planet Coaster.

It's totally worth $15 if you want to scratch that itch.

There's a fantastic LotR total conversion mod for TW: Rome. It was also ported to RW: Rome Remastered, so very easy to play even on modern hardware.

EDIT: Search for Lord of the Rings: Total War (Remastered) for the most recent version of the mod.

That's not Darth Maul, that's Master Ima-Gun Di (pronounced "I'mma gon' die"). His one and only appearance is on a episode of Clone Wars, and at the end of the episode he and his clones are overwhelmed by enemy droids and he dies.

Yes, his name is just a play on "I'm going to die", because he was created with the explicit purpose of getting killed on screen.