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Engaging to the end.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Lord of the Rings: Third Age is the tale of the Third Age of Middle-Earth where the evil forces of Sauron and Saruman seek to plunder and burn Middle-Earth into submission for the taking. There are few that stand in its defence and they must be rallied together. Drawing swords alongside famous Lord of the Rings characters such as Gimli, Aragorn and Gandalf, your party must defend the helpless.

Progressing your party of two (elf and man) from the beginning, you meet up with a ranger, dwarf and Rohirric rider as well as a stout Gondorian woman over the 50-hour game. You will defend all the major battle locations including Osgiliath and the fields of Pelennor on your march into Mordor to vanquish the eye of Sauron. These battles are where characters' magic abilities are pronounced, and cunning is necessary.

Key turn-based fights are the Helms Deep battles and in the Pelennor fields against the elephantine Mumakil, along with a consortium of wargs along the way. Orc, Goblin and Uruk-hai are the main battle groups throughout the entire game, although there is grand variety, from the Orc Shadow Chieftain through to the lowly Orc Archer Rabble. The plot follows the original LOTR, in the footsteps of the fellowship with similar conflicts and love interests along the way, from the Elven beginnings to the Mordor finale battle with Sauron. Interestingly, your party isn't complete until halfway through the game and immediately before Helms Deep. Closely entwined with the movie trilogy and given voice-over from Gandulf's actor, this game spans all three EA LOTR games in a role-playing game that is engaging to the end.

Why don't you pay attention? This game is really fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: December 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you'll notice that other people who tried this game came at it as an action game (a thought surely inspired by Two Towers and Return of the King). However what they did not notice was that this game was marketed as an RPG(role playing game). It has said that in commercials and on the game cases itself! I got this game recently. I and my good friend love it. The graphics are beautiful! This runs on a familiar engine typical to most if not all RPGs. The character runs around trying to achieve one goal or another. I noticed that one person thought that monsters appeared out of nowhere. Usually this occurs in RPGs. Seldomlly you'll come across enemies in the field, but these battles have been planed and don't count as a random fight. I love the Final Fantasy series and Wild Arms (two favorite RPG titles). I looked at this as what it claims to be, am RPG, and was able to have agreat time playing it (though, I do agree with others on wanting shops and incounters with NPCs that aren't in the movie and that it is a little on the short side). I would suggest renting it if you're still not sure. After all this is just my opinion.

The Third Age

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 27
Date: August 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

*Whistles* Wow! This game is going to be gooooood! This game takes place through the trilogy in which your team of Men, Elves, Dwarves, (and hopefully Hobbits), track the footsteps of the Fellowship. Sometimes in the game, you actually get to fight with the Fellowship! This also isn't what you recognize as the hack-and-slash games from TT and ROTK. This is a Roleplaying game (Like Final Fantasy.). This will be my first RPG but I'm still dying to get it! You get to choose which side you want, the good...or evil. I can't wait for this game! A must-have for Tolkien fans and RPG fans. Once you start, you can't stop!

INCREDIBLE

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is such an incredible game. Its so addicting. Its even better when you do Co-Op mode with a friend. BUY THIS IF YOU LIKE FINAL FANTASY OR OTHER TURN BASED RPG GAMES

Fantastic Adventure!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game holds true to form to the movie, yet you play a parallel characters alongside the main plot. It works very well doing this, and the GIANT selection of cinematics is breathtaking!

The graphics on this are showcase for any system, and are stunning by all accounts. In addition, there are bonus evil campaigns, where you can fight as the mighty watcher or Balrog, and other things.

Fantastic game, and the GameCube version is much better than the other incarnations.

the game is incredible

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

the third age is one of the best lord of the rings game of all time. the graphics in this game are some of the best I have ever seen. it is like you are actually inside the movie. The landscapes are excellent how cool is it to actually be able to walk through helms deep. An be able to walk through Minas Tirth and moria. The stoy line is great you dont have to follow the reguler stoyline here you get your own story line. The story is really about Berethor trying to overcome sauron and the evil of mordor. With a litte bit of a love story. But overall the game is a classic and lord of the rings fans well love it.

Okay but not the best

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The games overall okay but but it has a few bad things, such as on evil mode you cant move all you do is fight over and over and the heroes do stuff you cant do yet. Its also stupid when youre sorrunded by 6 enimies on hero mode and you have 6 guys but you can only use three and the enimies are all attacking twice. It also horribly diffrent from the movie when you do stuff like help eowyn kill the witch king(yah id like to see that in the movie) and help gandolf kill the balrog in moria. It does have a few good things though like customizing your guys( even through its not really customizing like they say you can, its just sticking on new armor). And it has decent graphics and you get to go someplaces the fellowship goes. But overall if you didnt like the lotr movies or games stay away.But personally even if you do like lotr its still not worth your time.

Not a masterpiece, but how can you hate it?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm a hardcore Lord of the Rings fan, and I'm not one of those morons who just got into it because "Dude, you know the part in that movie where Legaluss killed that orc? That was sweet!" I read and enjoy the books periodically. I love the writing, the story, and the characters. I own the movies and consider them all masterpieces. But to call me an "lotr nerd" is imbecelic in a big way. The people who say this... could it be they don't comprehend what the films, and more importantly the books are truly about?

Anyway, about the game. I enjoy the game. The story is, admittedly, somewhat lacking, but the characters are not as bland as some people say. Honestly, my biggest complaint about the characters is the fact that Hadhod looks almost exactly like Gimli.

I don't get the people who hate the movie clips. It's not like they're the highlight of the game, and personally, I enjoy them. And oh, here's an idea! You can always not watch them!!

The gameplay is not the best, and that is my biggest issue with this game. The fights would be a lot more exciting and engaging if they were more like Final Fantasy VII's real-time turn-based system. Hard to explain. Play Final Fantasy VII if you want to know what I mean. Something like the limit break system from that game would be nice too.

This is no masterpiece, and it could be better, but I don't understand how people can hate it or give it one star.(...)

Experience the Trilogy, through RPG

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First of all, RPGs are one of my favourite type of game, especially Final Fantasy's. And to hear that the greatest movie of all time is coming out in RPG style, I was astonished about the idea. The only thing was that this was an EA game. Dont get me wrong, I think EA are great for games. Just not familiar to RPGs. But I thought to my self, if I havent seen any RPG under EA games then I cant complain just yet.

The game is based upon the entire LOTRs trilogy. You play as an all-new character cast, interacting with the heroes of the movie trilogy through certain events from the main story.

With the first ten minutes of this game I could see that EA has done an excellent job. With its graphics and sound, 'LOTRs:the third age' really gives a brilliant impression of the movie. The music and atmosphere are spot on and sound effects of the enemies really gives you the impression that you are actually watching the movie. The best thing within these effects are noticed within the battle scene. But the best has still to come when you reach Balrog himself. As you fight alongside Gandalf you will notice how the animation of Balrog is so fluid. While containing stunning visuals and sound effects within the Balrog battle this is one of the most dramatic experiences through RPG battles.

It also contains a massive amount of cut scenes of the actual movie that are found throughout the game so people will not miss out on their favourite scenes.

The thing about 'LOTR:the third age' is that as you continue on your adventure you will notice how things differs in many ways to most large epic RPGs. There are no shops to purchase items or weapons. These must be found through the land of middle earth in battles and treasure chests. As an RPG, it also seems a bit linear, making this feel like of a 3D adventure with an RPG twist. After a Major quest is complete, there is no going back. This may be a problem for big epic hard core-RPG fans. But this can also be a good thing. Even though this is an Adventure/RPG game, even non-RPG fans may find this entertaining and a fun experience to play.

I have noticed that many critics have made bad comments on this one. I feel that this one has been totally underrated, big time. So it may not be the perfect RPG or entirely an RPG epic, but EA has still provided us with a great RPG, nonetheless, for everyone and not just for the fans.

finally,lord of the rings and freedom come together!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 19
Date: August 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

a great idea for lord of the rings. a whole backstory is what fans of the trilogy need.a neat and tidy combat system,over the edge graphics,a great game.

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