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If there are any other wargames like this that are WW2 or something similar, I'd like to hear about some of them though.
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Another great game in the Axis & Allies tradition is "Fortress America" which came out at around the same time that A&A came out. It's part of the same series. It just got a re-release too.
It's basically "Red Dawn" the war game. It's a hypothetical Russian/Mexican invasion of the United States. It's a fantastic game and is WELL WORTH picking up.
And don't knock "War of the Ring". It's one of the most strategic and well built war games I've ever played. The cool thing about it is that the good guys have a very limited amount of troops that they can recruit. Once you've recruited them all, there's no more. The bad guys, on the other hand have an UNLIMITED amount of troops to recruit and drop on the board. So you get a definite steamroller effect with the good guys just doing their best to hang on and take small victories when they can. I've fought some EPIC crushing fights in that game. The other thing that makes it difficult for the good guys is that there's a political mechanic. Most of the good guy factions have to be convinced to go to war (otherwise, they can't recruit). The only way to do this is to either have them get attacked by the bad guys, or to get one of the main story characters to one of their cities. This sounds REALLY heavily weigted toward the bad guys, but, believe it or not, there's great balance in this game. The good guys have advantages and tricks they can pull that make up for their lack of troops, like sneaking the ring-bearer to the "Crack of Doom" behind the bad guy's backs, etc..
I have a friend who's not a fantasy or Tolkein fan who still loves the hell out of this game.