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Gorgeous when it runs

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 19 / 19
Date: May 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Game Boy Advance players get a treat with The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The game is gorgeous. That is, when it runs properly.

By now, anyone who doesn't know at least the basic story of Lord of the Rings must be living in a cave. Hobbits. A Ring. A Quest to Take the Ring to Safety. Evil Riders. This game has them all.

The graphics are really pretty stunning. The little Hobbiton village, the forests, it all gives you a real sense that you're in Tolkein's world, interacting with the characters. Combat is simple turn-based stuff. You do a lot of message-delivering and mushroom-gathering.

Now, for the bad part. First, the game is very directional. You must get Item A from Spot 1 to Spot 2. Receive a coin. Take a message over to Person C. Get a cabbage. You gather a few coins by raiding your friends' homes and then steal their crops! Not very nice.

And when you've found these few items, you're stuck. There's no way to find more. If you want a third dagger for your party, sorry, the vendor only had 1. If you want to kill more Big Dogs to get your characters better at fighting, nope, you killed the only Dogs in Town. You roam the area looking for more things to do, but you are forced to trudge along to the next area.

Which leads to the REALLY bad part. Just about every single person I've talked to about this game has complained of severe crashing problems. The Mines of Moria are particularly notorious for crashing a lot, but crashes happen elsewhere as well. A crash can easily destroy hours of very tedious back-and-forth plodding.

A good game to borrow from a friend to see if it's your type of game, but be prepared to save early, save often as you get into it a bit.

Don't believe any hype

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 17
Date: October 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

First off, those stating how great this GBA game is obviously haven't played it or they find happiness in torture; this GBA version of Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring is one of the absolute worst games I've ever played and is a prime example of a licensed video game gone awry. You play as Frodo and you go through just about all the areas described in the original book while interacting with villagers and performing favors to get special items while also taking place in turn based battles with enemies. While this sounds good on paper (and like some old 16-bit RPG's that will remain nameless) there are so many glitches, bugs, and control issues (not to mention the battles take such an excruciating long time your head will spin in agony) that the overall feel of the game seems unfinished. All in all, this game will disappoint even the most hardcore fans of the Lord of the Rings series and they, along with any self respecting GBA owner, should avoid this at all costs.

Do not buy this game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 17 / 20
Date: October 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Being an avid video gamer and Lord of the Rings fan, I was excited when this game finally came to GBA as an RPG. But I was extremely dissapointed when I bought it. First of all, my first game froze every single time I got to a certain point in the Mines of Moria. So I returned it and got another. This game froze too, but at an earlier point. I avoided the place where it froze on me and kept going, but then I got stuck in Rivendell, and the elves didn't give me the right item I needed. I have restarted this game and tried to beat it 6 times now. It is not worth the time or frustration. The battles are sickening and mundane, and your characters only hit your enemy 20% of the time, which means the entire fellowship occasionally loses a fight to a band of two or three orcs. You are better off to read the books and imagine yourself in them than buy this game. It could make even J.R.R. Tolkien himself clench his teeth in frustration.

Glitches, Glitches and did I mention Glitches?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 16 / 19
Date: October 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well, the game is ok, as long as you don't want to finish it. Most of the game is just wandering around pointlessly to find things and getting lost a lot. The major problem is that at one point Gimli is invisible when you need to talk to him and the fact that every single game freezes up when you try to leave Moria. Other than that it's well.... ok for being Lord of the Rings merchandise.

Slow, buggy, and awful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 19
Date: October 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I had high hopes for this game since I'm a big Tolkien fan and really like good GBA RPGs. Boy, was I disappointed! First off the game is horribly slow. Combat takes forever, and is boring since your character miss all the time. You'll spend hours walking around looking for mundane items like flowers or Pippen.

Add to that fact that the game is horribly buggy. Gimli turns invisible in one quest, sometimes the elves don't give you items you need, and I've yet to meet anyone online who found a way out of Moria without the game crashing.

Don't buy this waste of a game. Save your money and either wait for one of the other Lord of the Rings games coming out this Christmas (The Two Towers) or buy Golden Sun or Castlevania instead. This is a prime example of a great license going to waste.

Beware this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: November 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

There's a reason Gamespot gave this game a 2.1 out of 10.

This game should never have gotten through Nintendo quality assurance. It's buggy -- you can't even get through Moria without the game freezing. And that doesn't mention all the problems with item cloning, invisible characters, music cutting out, and impossible quests.

Even if the game was bugfree, it's awful. Combats take forever (and aren't any fun, since your characters never hit), and the best parts of the book are skipped over, like Weathertop and Amon Hen. Moving your character on screen is like steering a drunk elephant. Seriously.

If you're looking for a good Lord of the Rings experience, buy the PS2 Fellowship version (skip the Xbox one), or EA's Two Towers games (either GBA or PS2).

A Slow Game with Terrible Glitches

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: December 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is more based on the book then any other lotr game. But the battles are terribly slow, some items don't work, things that the game promised are taken out, the graphics are awful, and there are some terrible glitches in the game, especially the Moria Glitch which made me go out buy another one (I thought the first one was a defect) and go through the same glitch again. Even if you are a huge lotr fan you should probably stay away from this game.

battle weary

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: October 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is horrible. The battles are so... long, slow and unexciting. The scenery is cute, but alittle dark for GBA.
Don't waste your money.

DONT WASE YOUR TIME AND MONEY!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When I first started this game I was pretty impressed. The people were ok, and the scenery was awesome - thats the only reason I gave the game just ONE star. But that was as good as it got. From the beginning, it didn't tell you how to find things, or what to do, or how to fight, the creators just threw you out there. So after many confusing and repetative little missions, you get to the old forest, and even more confusing and frustrating part of the game. No one helps you - Tom Bombadil just says: "Find the willow withies" and thats that. Plus, the battle sequences a very slow boring, and your people hardly ever hit their targets.

The game is extremely buggy, many times my characters would get stuck between obstacles or just going up the stairs. Sometimes they even walked off the screen and I couldn't get them back. And then, to top it all off, the game froze right as I left the Mines of Moria after I'd spent HOURS wandering through them.

Don't get this game. Its glitchy, confusing, frustrating, and overall a waste of time and money. Judging from the other reviews, I'm not the only one who thinks so. Buy THE TWO TOWERS for Game Boy Advance. It looks much more promising.

This game really sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: October 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I wish I could give this game negative five stars! Whoever gives this game five stars is a complete loser who doesn't have any good games. This game is not really fun and it has major glitches in it. Why get this game when there are games like Super Mario World, Metroid Fusion, Advance Wars 2, or a Pokemon game! And I am not biased against Lord of the Rings games or anything like that because I enjoyed playing the Two Towers and Return of the King for the Gamecube. This game is fun for the first 15-30 minutes though. My final words are DON'T GET THIS GAME!!!!!!!

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