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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.

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.

Worst Game Ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When i bought this game, I thought Wow! I get to play Lord of the Rings! After a week I was bored with it. THIS IS THE WORST GAME EVER MADE!!!!!!!!! The combat is very slow and tedious, and the game freezes up to much. Do not under any circumstances buy this game. I gave it one star because it is Lord of the Rings.

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.

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.

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!!!!!!!

They forgot to quality test! This game is bugged!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: October 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

First of all, the movement of characters is odd. It's not something you get used to. They dont turn when you want them to. They seem to go at odd angles causing serious frustration and tedium.

Half the stuff in the instructions was not implemented in game. You get a little card saying "spell scrolls don't exist, instead just use gandalf's staff to cast the same spell" and "many items in game have been replaced with other items."

The box says non-linear roleplaying game. What you get instead are parts in the game (without warning) where you just can't go back. You begin a quest then can't complete it because you walked to far left... suddenly you can't return to the quest giver. If you'd even call them quests.

Characters seem to level up at random. Battles ARE slow. Imagine fighting a spider that attacks you, then steps back 50 feet. Then steps forward 50 feet to attack again. Etc until you fall asleep. And the battles are few and far between. I got 14hrs into the 20 hrs of gameplay before freezing and only fought maybe 25 battles?

Now onto the bugs. This company must have done no testing for this game at all. One bug takes you beneath the world, you simply disapear. One part in Moria, the game freezes and you simply can't go on. And I've read posts of other spots (Rivendel for one). Black Label tech support will offer you a solution worthy of the meanest multy button mortal combat combo. I think I'll take a refund instead.

Now onto other things. You only get maybe 3 armor upgrades per character in this game. Merchants dont have much to sell. The game is short. Character developement is shameful for a so-called RPG.

Black Label should have at least tried to copy Golden Sun. If you want an excellent RPG that offers a true non-linear game where char developement takes time, battles are plentiful, spells are actuallly in the game, with better graphics and spell effects, and normal character movement, then get Golden Sun. FOTR for GBA is a joke. I will never buy a Black Label or Vevindi game again. They should have put 1/1000th the effort that was put in the books at least to make a nameworthy game. Instead they released an incomplete, untested mess.

What a piece of ...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: October 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This had such potential to be a great game. Unfortunately, the lack of a decent fighting system and the overabundance of bugs ruined it. I am a true fan of the LoTR series, and I can barely stand this game. The battle system is way too slow. You have to wait for each character to walk over to the enemy, make their attack, then walk back. This becomes extremely annoying after a while. The fact that you don't even gain experience from the battles is a further bother. It seems to level you up at set points in the game for each character. The bugs in this game are overwhelming. You can't even get thru the mines of Moria without running into a game stopping bug. The company has provided a way around it by saving before you enter, but it is still a bother. That is not the extent of the bugs either, they are all over the place. This game was obviously rushed and distributed to make an extra buck, and not to produce a high quality game. It is not worth what I payed for it at all. Other reviews say that only true fans of the series can enjoy this game, which is not true. I consider myself a true fan, and this is a terrible game.

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