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Best "trilogy" ever, but a poorly made game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: June 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The "Return of the King" is an average beat-em-up at best. The only thing going for this game is the Lord of the Rings license. If not for the movie license this game would have vanished into the abyss that bad beat-em-ups call home. The problem with this game can be put simply: FRUSTRATING. Not because of the game's difficulty (I say this as an avid PS2 Shinobi fan), but because of bad game design. The biggest and most aggravating flaw in the game is the camera. There were countless times in the game that I received a cheap hit or could not attack an enemy at a critical moment because I could NOT SEE the enemy (if you played the game and tried using pikes you know what I'm talking about). This kind of flaw is inexcusable for a game at this point in the game industry. Also in certain levels the camera is fixed and will only move except by rotating or zooming. However unless your character stays close to the camera you will quickly lose site of him as orcs or other enemies block your view making combos excruciatingly difficult. I could go on about other flaws (such as the controls) but the camera alone really hurts the game. If your a die hard LOTR fan who can tolerate a frustrating and mediocre brawler you may like this game but if your looking for quality in a beat-em-up game I would pass on "Return of the King".

CRAPNESS thy name is the lord of the rings

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 28
Date: March 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

People who think that anything to do with the Lord of the Rings is good are twats. This is the crappest trilogy of books and films ever created. J.R.R Tolkien is an idiot to create such a pathetic set of books, and Peter Jackson is a fat wanker to create such a crap set of films. I urge anyone who feels strongly about the Lord of the Rings to e-mail me at jackd999@hotmail.com with their opinions. Up with crap, down with the Lord of the Rings

gollum

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: January 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you like "The Lord of the Rings" book and movie-trilogy then you shouldn't play this game. "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" has a poorly designed look of Middle-earth and for some reason it doesn't even seem to follow the plot of the movie that well at all.

Just another Stupid Hack and Slash withannoying objectives

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 18
Date: March 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Theres not much to say about this game its a hackin slash which means run around and press A and wack everyone.which I fine stupid It takes no skill to be good at this game all you need is to now were The A butun is and press that like crazy.

Another annoying part is your always haveing to protect someone or something Protect the Gate,Dont let the wall get overwhelmed save Eowyn and merry by running catapult to catapul and firing at the big mean elephant and lizard thing.Its so stupid the crumy objectives they have you doing.They should of made it like star wars battle front with a mini tirth map or plenar fields map or something like that.Not this now dont get me wrong Im a big Lord of the Rings fan its just all the games have sucked.

Being a lord of the rings fan wont ensure the liking of this game.
People with weak minds and loike pressing the A buttun would love this game though

do not buy this game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: January 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

There are many good "movie-moments" that die-hard fans will enjoy but this game is far from perfect. Even the most talented gamers will find themelves staring at their TV screens as it displays "you've failed the mission" after failing a mission for the 5th time wondering why they should even bother playing the game any more. The first 2 or 3 missions are realtively easy, you'll probably only have to try them twice. As the game progresses it gets alot more challenging. In one of the missions you have to fight the king of the dead and then escape from his cave as it collapses on top of you. The boss fight is going to take several tries to figure out the technique. After you do manage to kill the king escaping from the cave is extremely tedious and annoying, giant rocks you cant even see kill you instantly even if you have full health. All the levels are annoying, tedious, and repetetive. The combat is extremely repetetive. The attack combos are hard to get right and even if you do they dont do much damage anyway. I would strongly suggest renting this game before buying it. Unless you are very patient and dont mind restarting levels over and over again then this game is not for you. Basically, this game is just fancy graphics with fancy backgrounds and explosions. The combat is the most important part of the game and it's boring and repetetive.
Keep the $50 and go watch the movie 10 times.

it could've been so good......why..........why cruel world!?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: January 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is worse than its predecessor "The Two Towers". Besides the addition of new playable characters, this game hasn't grown the way a good sequel should. The battle system is identical to the two towers and the level design is just as straight forward as before. The in-game lighting is much improved but thats a minute detail compared to the serious graphics design flaw that the heads up displays are barely legible from any significant distance if you're using a TV smaller than 25". not everyone has a 50" plasma screen in their game room thank you very much. This combined with primitive CGI animations and the sheer fact that the game has no variety should be enough to make the game not worth buying. but seriously, all the levels are too similar, i can only imagine the chief designer saying,"Gee, i think ill spice this level up by putting a kill counter in the corner of the screen" i mean the game is just lame at times. only buy this game if you're a hardcore lord of the rings fan and you can look past the technical flaws and have fun with it, simply because you get to jump around as frodo baggins!

Too hard, not enough save points

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed the gameplay, graphics etc. of this game. However it is unreasonably difficult. That plus the fact there are no save points within the levels makes it a thumbs down for me. I enjoy my PS2 but am not interested in making playing this (or any) game into a full time job. These guys who say they finished the game in a few days must me either professional gamers or have A LOT of free time.

this is a fantastic game but

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: November 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is the best lotr game yet it has lots of fun and exiting levels and ie is a game you can play with a friend like in co-op the levels are very good taking your characters through the game and when you finish you get rewarded with new and interesting people who arevery fun to play with if you like any of the lotr games i am almost certain youwill like this one go out and buy it.

Sloppy, Annoying Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: January 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I rented this game and thought it was simply awful. Characters are very hard to follow, with fighting scenes often seeming very cluttered. The challenges are tedious...often seems like you're doing the same thing with different characters for the whole game.

Rent or buy the Two Towers game, which I think is much better.

this is the worst game ever made

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: January 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game is good for the first 4 or 5 levels but then it strikes with very hard levels and it is not easy believe me it is not. this game should be rated m for toughness this is so hard this game i cant stand having it and not playing it. dont waist ure money. i have it and i dont even play it, it is like an empty case.

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