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Ew. Keep away.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: January 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Bad. Very bad. Slow as the books, without any of the interesting dialogue or plot development...instead, one is treated to the wild thrills and spills of wandering about collecting items for hours and being subjected to horribly done RPG battles. It takes over an hour to get OUT of the Shire--and what do you do in that time? Meandering at approximately 0.3 mph through dull, washed-out backgrounds, collecting tools for gardeners and seeds and fruits. Whee. Frodo the Errand-Boy.

Then it gets better. You meet Tom Bombadil. And what does the singing spirit of nature ask of you? Why, of course, to wander about collecting things. Boy howdy. I'm having a blast here. Apparantly Vivendi's idea of a "puzzle" is "let's hide an item, make them wander for 15 minutes finding it with no action whatsoever, then we'll hide another one and make them start over!"

But you get past Tom Bombadil, and into the great, wide world of Middle-Earth, and what do you do?

Become engaged in what is undeniably the most boring RPG ever to hit the GBA. Walk around. Get involved in pointless, NON-EXPERIENCE-POINT-GIVING battles! That's right! You get NO REWARD for the excruciatingly slow battles whatsoever! I cannot deny, though, that the game gets much deeper once pointless-battling augments pointless-walking. I found myself forcing myself to play just to see if the next line of dialogue actually came from the books. That's never a good sign.

Oh, and then we get to Moria. That's a bit better. Except for the fact that 1-in-80 cartridges has a critical error that prevents you from CONTINUING PAST THE STAGE! Really. ... I have no idea what Amon Hen is like. Maybe it gets better. I don't know. This game is a disgrace.

I am a Tolkien nut. I am an RPG fan. I enjoyed Golden Sun, Tactics Ogre, and the pair of Breath of Fire games immensely. I love the books to death and thought the movies were sheer magic. This, on the other hand, offends me on two fronts. It's a mediocre RPG and a poor translation of Tolkien.

I cannot imagine ANYONE who is in the slightest demanding about their RPGs (or games in general) enjoying this game. The only redeeming fact about this game is that it is Lord of the Rings. I admit it was somewhat less aggrivating when I saw familiar locations. Not fun, mind you, but it did lessen the frustration.

Bottom line:
If you really want Tolkien, buy the Extended DVD of Fellowship of the Ring, the LoTR trilogy, the Hobbit, Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales etc.

If you really want a GBA RPG, buy one of the excellent titles mentioned above, or one of the Mega Man Battle Network games.

If you want a video game adaptation of the movie, buy EA's The Two Towers.

If you want to be disappointed, buy this.

Great...If you can find one without glitches

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is good if you are lucky enough to find a newer copy. I have twice bought the game, several months apart, and both times got games with glitches. I read the strategy guide to see what I was missing, and am dissapointed that I never got to see Lorien -- or even get out of the Mines of Moria. If you are lucky to get one of the newer games, count your lucky stars, and enjoy it!

why oh why does anyone play this

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Yes this has good graphics, Yes it has a kind of Zelda theme. But really if your looking for a game that fits the Lord of the rings best then get the Two Towers. Once you are used to that then get the The Return of the King. That is the best game of them all. Ive played all three and the Fellowship is by far the worst game i have ! Please Gameboy dont let Vivendi Universal (the makers of this game) ever make a game based on a film ever again. They wasted away all the good parts of the books and if you want to fight on this game then good luck to you. DO NOT BUY THIS ITS A WASTE OF MONEY !!!!

Fun, to bad it doesn't work!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

At first when I bought this game I thought it was preety cool, but boy was I wrong. I always read the instructions for a game before I turn it on, and half the stuff in the booklet wern't in the game. The graphics aren't as good as they could have been, considering what the GBA is capable of. After a time the music also starts to get on your nerves, so I would just recomend turning it off. The gameplay is slow and tiresome, I can't believe how slow the charachters walk. More often then not the came crashes, which means more dull work getting back to were you were before it crashed. Three-Fourths of the way through you enter the mines of Moria, and your just about to get out when the game freezes. I called the jerks at Nintendo, who told me to try a combination of buttons to fix the problem, but it didn't work! So I asked for a refund or a trade in for a different game, but I had had it for more than 6 months. I take really good care of all my games and they knew they game barfed because they made a stupid glitch in the system, what a rip off. Even if you like the books and movie, you probably won't like this game. I was really dissapointed when I got this game. Don't wast your money on this! I would recommend the next 2 LOTR, Lunar Legend, Final Fantasy, Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hand or the two Golden Sun games if you like midevil adventure\RPG games. (Lunar Legend is the best, check it out)

burned 3 times!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this for my daughter last Christmas. She was so excited she started playing right away. Shortly after she said there was a glitch. 2 Frodo's would suddenly appear on the screen. I took it back, and since you can only exchange the item for the same item we did. Again the glitches. During battle the players would split and you'd have 2 Frodo's or Aragorn etc.. on screen. We threw it out. Later we found several on a discount rack, Spiro's, race cars and LOTR's. So I figure what the heck, third times the charm right? WRONG. The third one had glitches also. MAJOR DISAPPOINTMENT. Especially because it wasn't an all battle game. It has action and puzzle solving too. It just should have had the glitches worked out before it was marketed.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" is not the best nor worst video game that I have played for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. Here are the good things about this game: the storyline is great, the graphics and sound are well done, and the game play is O.K. You can play as all the characters in the fellowship and that's pretty cool (as some of the characters have awesome, weapons, to choose from). There is a lot of fun and adventure in this game; but, do not hope for too much action. Now here are the bad things about this game: there are not enough battle scenes with orcs, trolls, huge spiders, and more enemies that fight against the fellowship. The battle scenes in this game are terribly slow but can be a little fun at times. I just don't understand why the battle scenes have to be so slow, the company that made this game should have equipped it with better and faster battle scenes. But the biggest problem this game has is glitches. The game froze up in the Old Forest level. But that wasn't much of a problem as I got past that glitch by resetting the game and not going back to the part where there is a glitch in that level. But the glitches did not end. There was one glitch, which froze the game like the other glitch, in the Moria level that almost prevented me from beating the game. But, thankfully, I got through the glitch in Moria by finding out how to get past it in a video game magazine. It had some news about this game called "Problems with Universals Rings"? There it stated that there have been many complaints, from customers who owned the game, about "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" video game for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance having some glitches in it. Luckily, the video game magazine stated how to get through the glitch in Moria and move freely without any other problems in the game. If you do not want to buy this game then that is fine. But if you do: BEWARE OF GLITCHES!!! Always remember to look into Nintendo video game magazines or go on the internet and look up "Problems with Universals Rings". That will give you some help on avoiding the glitch in the Moria level. But all in all this is not a bad RPG game. It just could have been better. I give "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" video game for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance an average three out of five stars.

Horrible!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Man this game is horrible! I mean, the graphics are pretty good, but the fighting mode is terrible. First Frodo attacks and most likely misses! And in the Mines of Moria, there is a huge glitch. I got past it, but there is another one! This game stinks!!

Terrible game, very disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I wrote this review only to bring the average rating more in line with reality. I would definitely recommend playing this game before buying it. The story is fine and the graphics are nice, but the gameplay is so [weak]that it will bore your socks off. I used to play way too many hours of MUDs and other text-based adventure games, so I have a high tolerance for bad interface, but this game is potentially the worst I have ever seen. In fact, the game would be much better if they had replicated the character interface from "rogue/moria" and put it on the GBA ;)

One and a half stars

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is super slow, the battles are weak and I just happened to be the unlucky one who got the bad cartridge and was stuck in moria. First I thought it was a game defect so I went back to the place I bought it and returned it (after spending almost a month just getting to moria) then I played my new game and found the same problem. I went to the website and found that Black Label has had many complaints about this and it tells you how get to through it. It is complicated and took me many tries but I finally got it to work. The trouble I had to go through just with this defect was enough to make me say you should not buy this game. This game is OK - but you really have to be a Tolkien fan to like it - not just a fan of the movie. If you are considering buying this game then I recommend you don't - you should buy LOTR Two Towers though....now that is a great game! READ KATIE KELLY'S REVIEW (Jan 14, 2003) - that was a perfect review of this game. I just had to put in my 2 cents about the defect.

A Great Game For The GameBoy Advance

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: October 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The Lord Of The Rings : The Fellowship Of The Ring is an awsome RPG video game for the GameBoy Advance. The storyline is excellant and relates to J.R.R. Tolkiens first book of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy ( The Fellowship Of The Ring.) Therefor this video game does not relate to Peter Jacksons first great trilogy movie of The Lord Of The Rings but relates to J.R.R. Tolkiens first book of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy The Fellowship Of The Ring. Gildor the wise elf , Tom Bombadil of The Old Forest ( which means The Old Forest will of coarse be in this game ) , and Glorfindel the elf will be in "The Fellowship Of The Ring" game as they were in the book not the movie. But you can't play as those characters. It has fine graphics for the GameBoy Advance and battle scenes are slow but you have to admit that battle scenes are fun to play and get faster as you get used to the gmae. The movement of the characters you play as in "The Fellowship Of The Ring" video game are not hard at all to control. You get to play as Frodo the hobbit , Gandalf the wizard , Aragorn the mortal , but noble man , and more. There are many enemies in the game who are servants of the Dark Lord Sauron who seeks the one ring that Frodo the hobbit bravely bears and journeys to Mordor to destroy the one ring Sauron made in the fires Mount Doom. Ringwraiths , orcs , trolls , and the balrog demon in the mines of Moria will be the servants of Sauron The Dark Lord Of Mordor. There are enemies in this game who know nothing of Sauron that just wants to kill you. Wolves , giant spiders , and poisonous plants slow down your journey in this great game. I gave The Lord Of The Rings : The Fellowship Of The Ring video game for GameBoy Advance five stars because it goes along well with the book and because it is fun and adventurous. I am proud to be a Lord Of The Rings fan! The books are great , The movie trilogies are awsome , and this game Rocks!

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