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This game is amazing!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I played LOTR: The Two Towers for the first time today when my friend brought it to my house to show me. I couldn't get my eyes off the TV, and I couldn't get my hands off the controller (actually i could, but it had the built in air conditioning.) My favorite thing about this game is that you have the option to play each level as either Gimli, Aragorn, or Legolas. Each one of them has benefits, and things that aren't so great. The only drawback to this game is that there is absolutely no multiplayer function which makes for a great game if you have no friends. Halo's cooperative play was brilliant and this game would be even better if it had something like that. But hey, this is still a great game.

(one of the) best game eva!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed this liscensed title very much. The graphics were insanely good. The control scheme worked out okay (4 out of 5 stars). If you've watched the LOTR movies a billion times, then you'd probably get bored of the sound quickly, but if you haven't, then it sounds okay. Since the game is so swell, I'll throw in a few cheats.

Pause the game, hold the Left and Right triggers and press:

Y Down A Up/Restore Health

A Down Down Down/ Plus 1000 Points

A Down Y Up/Restore Arrows/Axes

X Y A B/Infinite Health (Game must be completed)

Note: Up and Down should be pressed with the D pad (it's right below the left joystick thingy).

towering game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

anyone who has a negative thing to say about this game is just impossible to please...with movie clips, actual actors voices from the movies, wonderful graphics, great extras, and constant action--this game proves that the makers of the game were serious about making it the best it could be. the only drawback at all was that you couldn't play as gandalf the white...but hopefully that will change with the return of the king game. any tolkien fan will be silly not to love it.

Impressive but it can get monotonous.,

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It's like being in the movie! The game uses scenes from both The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers movies to create scenarios in which Gimli, Aragorn, and Legolas fight through. There are 10 levels each can be played separately by the above 3 players. Once you've passed all 10 levels with each player, the game unlocks Isildur and gives you secret codes with which you can use to become invincible, make your enemies small, give yourself unlimited arrows (or throwing axes if you're playing as Gimli) and have super strength.

Enemies include Orks, Uruk kai, Trolls and the lake creature from the first movie in front of the door to the mines. Figuring out the pattern to defeating the "bosses" at the end of each level is fairly simple and doesn't require much thought unfortunately.

Each player has his own strengths and weaknesses. Gimli is the strongest, but also the slowest. Legolas is the quickest, but also the weakest (of the 3)... Aragorn is the happy medium between the two being faster than Gimli, but slower than Legolas, but stronger than Legolas, yet weaker than Gimli.

I enjoyed playing through the levels because the sound effects are awesome and the scenes are just like the movie. Orks crawl through the trees following you as you walk down a lonely trail through the forest in search of the missing halflings... wade through waist-deep water through a waterfall into a cave where there are more than just bats to scare you! Kick down the ladders as Uruk kai try to breach the wall at Helm's Deep in driving rain while flaming arrows wiz past your head! There's a lot of fun to have here!

After you pass each level you earn points which you can use to "purchase" (unlock) new combo moves that require patterned button sequences to use (like in Mortal Kombat series') and to "purchase" stronger shields and stronger arrows (or axes). After passing each level, you also unlock bonus material such as movie screenshots, character interviews with Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli, and secret levels where you have to fight beasts on every floor of the 20-story tower at Isengard!

My points of contention with the game... when you start a new game, you have to sit through a lot of movie scenes before you can start playing... it's really cool if it's your first time playing because it builds up to the game itself, but it gets annoying when you just want to turn on your Xbox and just start playing without having to wait before you can start pushing buttons! I also found the game to be a bit monotonous. Sure you have combo moves, but you know where each "bad guy" is and how to kill it... you expect everything. It's not like other games such as Ghost Recon where enemies are rarely in the same place each time you play and strategies change randomly. Basically, the game gets old quick because it offers little in the way of dynamicism in terms of strategy of play. Nevertheless, it is worth getting to play for the first time, and is still fun to play after you haven't played it for a few months and decide to break it out one more time!

Good game. Could have been better.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game has almost everything except for the one thing that would have made me buy it: multiplayer. According to the official Xbox site, we were expecting a two-player cooperative mode. It wasn't until the game had been released for a week before Xbox noticed and corrected their site. Mind you, there are great graphics and character models/animations. The game play moves fairly quickly. The real problem here was boasting what we didn't get.

Very True to the movie, and one of the best adventure games!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

...ever! This game rocks. Even though it is only one player, the game play is absolutley amazeing. And also; the combat is great too. The cutscenes are kind of choppy,(the in game ones), but the game is still great. I'd have to recommend this for any gamer. This is much better than the Fellow Ship of the ring game for XBOX. You can be three(four including the bonus)characters in this game, Gimmili, Argorn, and Legolas. All are great. Everything about this game is excellent. The game provides good graphics quality and a decent smooth frame rate...I recommend this game! Just buy it! :)

Not what I expected

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: August 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game used for under ten bucks...thankfully. It is basically mortal kombat with movie cutscenes, too many movie cutscences. The sound and graphics are decent, but I was hoping for an RPG game not a mortal kombat fight game. If you like the mortal kombat style fight games, then this game is for you..if not, avoid it like the plague. Oh and by the way, the camera in this game is alomost as bad as silent hill 2.

Great Game, A must have

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the best. With its connection to the movie and the book. This game is great but I have to admit Halo is better. In this one player game you can play as either the quick legolas, the all around warrior stridder(aka:arogoan), and the work horse gimli. They all have thier own induvidual moves and weaknesses. I had a rare chance to play this game on Xbox before it came out. Well let me tell u it was just great. One thing about the game is it goes through the two movies. Also it only lets you play the best parts. You dont have to go through the boring. There is many unlockbales to. Charctars and levels. EA did a wonderful job with this game. Maybe one of its best games ever. I am not lien this is a great game. This is a most have for top gamers.

EA Tries to Go Retro and Misses the Mark

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Remember the not-so-golden days of yesteryear, when games had only one camera angle and a fixed path to follow on each level. Level bosses would repeat the same moves over and over again and it would be up to us to find some lame secret to beat them. While I have to admit there was a certain simple satisfation to the run here, jump there, press A and then press B sort of scenario, it just doesn't hold water nowadays. Maybe an extremely polished game with some fun surprises could pull it off, but The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is not that game.

LOTR: The Two Towers reminds me just how far games have come in the last few years culmniating with brilliant games like GTA: Vice City, Splinter Cell, and Neverwinter Nights. These games have magnificently large game worlds, complete 360 degree camera movement, freedom to move around anywhere on each level, freedom to beat those levels in different fashions, boundary-pushing A.I.s lending to more realistic enemies, and excellent graphics, sound, and storyline to boot.

Electronic Arts decided to go in the opposite direction and attempt to create a more classic style game. Bad idea jeans. The game is quickly won in 12 fairly short levels (+ 4 secret levels). The level bosses are simple and repetitive. Best the biggest, baddest Warg in all of Middle-Earth like he's a scared little Koopa at the end of a Mario level. The camera angles are even more frustrating because they actually help you get killed. Need to run down a hall to avoid a cave troll? Sorry, you can't see down the hall. Don't worry, you'll just run into the wall instead and let him smash you with his chain.

Polish, a solid story, and superb sound could have saved this game. LOTR: The Two Towers disappoints on two out of three. The story is so choppy and discombobulated that only those who have seen the movies at least twice will have any idea of what's happening. Even those die hard fans might get confused now and then with all the cuts and jumps. One minute you're fighting Ringwraiths on Weathertop, the next you're on the plains of Rohan defening the Riddermark. It blew me away that Peter Jackson was able to distill the material into 6 hours and 2 movies. EA fails miserably in trying to cut it down to a few minutes of intros. Not to mention having to watch those same intros over and over, in a game where you'll need to play the levels multiple times to beat them, is just annoying. The polish just wasn't there either. No motion capture was used at all in a game that screames for it. Instead, the game relied solely on the intuition of their programmers (contrast with Enter the Matrix, coming out mid-year).

Out of three possible saving graces, only the sound delivers in LOTR: The Two Towers. The sound bytes are clean and well-placed from clanging swords to screams of death. The music is dark and energetic. The voices are all well performed by the movie actors who have some fun one-liners created just for the game.

Bottom line, if you're looking for a few hours of old school gaming fun with good sound, save the [$$] and fire up your old NES, playstation, or PC emulator.

Orc, after orc, after orc, after.....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

All you do in the game basiclly is fight orcs. thats it! its stupid. the music is well betrayed and the graphics were well done. But still, all you do is fight orcs. it gets so old very fast. Except for fighting the boss of a level which would be after literatly 30, 40 orcs than you fight something different. My advice, do NOT get this game. it was very poorly made!

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