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This game is [bad]

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 19
Date: January 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is [bad], it fun for the first 5 minutes until you complete the game in less then 5, 6 hours. Also the game itself is [bad], it follows EXACTLY like the movie, you can only move, and play in the areas you see in the game. No freedom to do anything that the game doesn't want you to do. While you get ganged up on by 10 guys you can't move to fight, the mechanics and collision detection needs a lot of work. But read the other reviews they were put on here before the game was released. The could have made this a great game but blew it BIG TIME. nice work EA

Really BIG Disapointment...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: December 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am a really big LOTR fan!!:) I have read all the books including the Hobbit. Trust Me they are definately LORD OF THE BOOKS!! I was excited that finally New Line Cinima made a movie of the books and somebody made a video game of them, so I thought... THESE GAMES STINK!!!! ALL YOU DO IS KILL ORCS, ALL THE TIME!!!!!:( THEY ADD STUPID KILLING PARTS THAT AREN'T EVEN IN THE MOVIE!!!!!:( WHY THE HECK WOULD SOMEONE RIP UP A WONDERFUL BOOK AND MAKE SUCH A DUMB GAME!!!!!:( Sorry about my frustration, but that is my feeling!! I perfer a storyline not some dumb game where you are running around killing people!! Some levels you just stay in one room or place and kill people!! If you like games where just kill people constantly than this game is for you!! For those of you who thinks this game stinks as much as I do there is a new type of game based on the books that I liked much better than this junky game!! You journey through the book!!:) Much better, trust me!!:) I gave this game a one star because there are better LOTR games out there and this game overall is just plain Stupid with a capital s. (Wait it already has one, OH well!) Have a great day and DON'T BUY THIS GAME UNLESS THE NEXT THINGS QUALIFY FOR YOU...

*You love killing people (or in this case orcs) continually

*You want to see a great book ripped apart and made into a really dumb game

*You hate the other brand of LOTR game I told you of

*YOU JUST WANT ANOTHER STUPID GAME TO LAY AROUND YOUR HOUSE THAT YOU WILL NOT PLAY AGAIN!!!!

Trust me!! don't buy this game you will thank me later!!
Buy the Hobbit and Felowship of the Ring instead!! Again Have a GREAT day!!:)

Lord of the Rings Freak!!:) signing off ('sup?)

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.

Awful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: April 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

One of the worst games I've ever played. It's less of a game really than just thinly-veiled "movie marketing". Anyone who is fooled by this over-priced advertisment deserves to have their $ taken from them. Rent it and see for yourself, but please don't buy it. Save your money for something less exploitive and more fun. There are dozens of better choices out there.

One of the worst games I've played

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If I want to watch the movie, I'll watch the movie. This game spends so much time forcing you to see scenes from the film. The only movements are along certain paths with single camera angles; very limited. I felt confined to just moving certain places and doing certain thing. The fight scenes are rediculous; I didn't feel like I was really doing anything. There are no creative ways to move around or do anything in this game. A very poor excuse for a game.

Five Stars for Frustration

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: July 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I deeply regret purchasing The Two Towers based on people's good reviews. Will never trust the reviewers again. Taught me a good lesson that I should always rent the game to check it out beforehand rather than blindly going by what majority of the reviewers said. I played less than a full 30 minutes of the game before I gave up on it. Nice graphics and great sound but frustratingly limiting and absolutely no incentive for me to get to the next level.

Did not enjot it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm not fond of video games that are fashioned after movies/books. It takes away from the mystery that video games otherwise offer. The thrill of not knowing what is going to happen and what you are going to meet next isn't fullfilled. The outline is already mapped out and the suprise factor is gone. LOTR Two Towers feels like the game has too much control over me. There are too many cut scenes that you can't button through (can be frustrating).

I didn't give the game a chance to play repeatedly so I may have missed out on some important things (like how to skip the cut scenes) but I found the game play boring. If you're into pure hack and slash then this is the game for you. I found it pretty bland.

On a brighter side, the game looks and sounds decent.

Not involved at all

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game has no story at all. If the movie wasn't so good no one would ever buy the game. What about the exciting three customizable characters you say? They are basicly the exact same. The moves you can buy for each one are the same just with different names. The game is almost too easy. It took all of 3 or 4 hours of game play to beat the main story line and the secret level. It also gets very repetive. Every level is the same fight except for the background.

Huh? Why all the hype? This game is too limited.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I just spent 6 hours in frustration. I think this game came out too fast, in a rush to beat the release of "Return of the King." The graphics were very good, but...

First off, I had trouble with being forced to watch the movie clip at the begining of the game. You can't stop it or skip through it. If you try - you merely go back to the begining of the clip and watch it all over again. After the real movie footage there is EA's computer generated movie footage. You can't skip that either. Then the game starts off with no warning. You are Isildur and you must start right in the thick of battle. Again, you can't stop or change settings or anything. If you try, you can only restart and then have to watch the movie clips all over again without being able to skip it. That is truly cheesy. The movie wasn't that great. They ought not be so proud of it.

Next, more movie footage and more computer generated movie footage. You can't skip through it either. You are Aragorn. No choice in the matter. You are stuck on the hilltop, battling Ringwraiths, protecting Frodo - you cannot leave the tiny little circle. You must defeat the Wraiths to move on. Next, you can decide if you want to be Aragorn, Legolas or Gimli. Don't get your hopes up. More movie footage that you can't skip and more computer generated footage that you can't skip. This is the case every time to move to another area. Only after you defeat the level and go back to replay as a different character can you skip the movie footage. You can never skip EA's computer generated movie footage. That alone is cheesy enough to make me give this game 2 stars. But that ain't all...

The action area is always way too small. You are woefully limited in how far you can move around. The character moves are very hard to get control of - even in the easy mode expect to die a lot. I was able to get pretty far, but the frustration and contempt proved to be too much. I quit the game at Balin's tomb and returned it to Target for a different game. The furious attempts at getting the character to move around properly and face the right direction almost completely destroyed one of my Xbox controllers. It is now in very poor shape and needs to be replaced. This happened in less than 6 hours of play. I've played Halo for days and days and did not experience this sort of difficulty. I play Halo in the "Heroic" mode and can kick butt and move around like a screaming demon. "The Two Towers" proved to be too frustrating. I mastered the moves, but often times the character failed to recognize the commands from the controller. The transition between melee weapon and range weapon was too poor. You cannot aim range weapons either. You have to face in the general area of the monster and just hope your weapon hits. Often times the monster can hit you, but you can't hit it. Again, frustrating. It's very hard to block an incoming arrow then fire off a ranged weapon. Gimli is especially slow with equiping and firing ranged weapons!

That's not all. Every few minutes of gameplay is interrupted by EA's computer generated movie sequences. Frustrating and annoying. You can't move 50 paces or fight for 5 minutes (oftentimes less than that) without the game interrupting you for some more uninterruptable footage. God, that got very old.

When you finally get to Balin's tomb, you are stuck in the tiny room where the Fellowship battled the cave troll. You cannot leave. You cannot wander around. You are stuck there. After battling orcs for a few minutes, the cave troll comes in. Here the transition between EA's computer generated movie and the action is very jerky, with gaps in the video and sound. The game actually pauses several times during this. You fight the troll for a very short time, get in a few hits, then another interruption and poor transition into CG movie footage.

Now it's time for the game to stick you up on a short and narrow ledge where you have to run back and forth and avoid the troll's chain. Very hard to do and fight back. Very boring. Very limited. I don't know what happens after that. I kept getting killed because of the before mentioned trouble with using the ranged weapons. I had had enough. I yanked the game out and put it into its case and took it back to where I got it.

I should have rented this game first, but I trusted the EA name on the box. Big fat no-no. I don't know if the game is even available for rent yet or not. If not, please wait and rent it before buying it. This game keeps getting great reviews, but I can't understand why. I bought Halo and that game rocks! The Two Towers comes no where near the freedom that you have in most games. And that's what it really comes down to. The Two Towers gives you very little opportunity to move around on your own, to make your own decisions. Limited. Frustrating. EA should have made a game about the First Age of Tolkien's Middle Earth. That way they would have been able to give gamers more lee-way and options. That, and they should have avoided all the game-play interruptions.

After only 6 hours, I will NEVER play this game again.

Gary
Florida

great for a while

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: October 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is one of those you watch the movie and your ready to play a lord of the rings game but after the sheer novelty wears off it becomes verry repetative and it's soo short Iwould not reccomend this game.

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