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very complicated

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: January 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game was really very fun kids and adults will really enjoy this game. However this game is very complicated

Pretty fun for a guy who's not a big fan of RPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for one reason: I love Lord of the Rings. The books, movies, games, everything. So I bought this game thinking it was like the Return of the King video game only spanning the whole trilogy. In a way I was right, but it was an RPG and I really wasnt a big fan of em. But I grew to love it. Heres why

Pros:

Great graphics and scenery (its so cool when you recognize places from the movie)
Cool Weapons
Addicting gameplay (it useually doesn't get boring)
Long enough (not to short)
Spans all three movies perfectly

Cons:

Fighting can get annoying (especially if goblins keep popping up in Moria and all you need to fo is move into one room)

Besides that, everything is pretty cool. You basically follow in the footsteps of the Fellowship as your OWN Fellowship: A Gondorian, an Elf, Ranger, Dwarf, Rohan woman and Rohan soldier
You go places like Lothlorian, Moria, Rohan, Pelennor Fields and Minas Tirith. Overall a pretty good storyline with great cut scenes that make it feel like you know whats going on every minute of the game. For example, you begin to feel a strong relationship between the She-Elf and the Gondorian or the bonds of friendship between the Dwarf and Ranger.

Overall, buy this game, expecially if you love the Lord of the Rings. It will keep you addicted for hours. Enjoy!

Disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I rented this game hoping it would be like to Knights of the Old Republic...

I was dead wrong.

The weapons, spells, and whatnot look pretty cool, and the landscape look nice. The games weakest point is its storyline. From the view of an avid LOTR fan, its ludicrous. It begins okay, but around Helm's Deep and Osgiliath, the plot worsens until the end. The script is painful to hear.

Bpttom Line: RPG and LOTR fans might want to rent this, but anyone not wishing to see the most ridiculous final boss fight of all time night want to skip this.

LOTR fans and others must get this game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 18
Date: July 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Lord of The Rings the third age is going to be awesome!!!
althugh it's not out yet I have seen plenty of photos and read the article in a Gameinformer. The point of the game is that EA is letting us explore Middle Earth a little more. The game doesen't have a whole ot to do with the movies and books but it is very thrilling!

asom game!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: August 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is so awesome I got it for a graduating 6th grade present and I could not stop playing it. This game can get very difficult so if you don't like challenging games don't buy this game. The storyline was very good but the ending was pretty crummy. Overall this is a awesome game U HAV GOT 2 BUY THIS GAME

Lord of the rings: The crappy game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: April 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I knew that the lotr nerd would fall for this game. Boy were you wrong buddy! Boy were you wrong! THis game blows! Its a hard a frustrating rpg. you play as a bunch of losers who aren't even in the movie! It's very boring. Don't be fooled by this title! You lotr nerds can complain to me at ptalen@charter.net. and for the love of mary use spell-check...
PETER TALEN

Second hand RPG

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: July 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This RPG is great for people who are really into the movie trilogy, although I found it rather disappointing. The battling game play is something reminiscent of Final Fantasy and the story line seems to be desperately trying to sew itself into the original LOTR storyline.

First there's you, the hero, who travels just SLIGHTLY behind the original game characters. Every time you enter a place, it just so happens they JUST left. And then you meet up with an elf, then later on, a dwarf, then a human archer, and oh wait, is this group starting to sound familiar?

Overall the storyline and the painfully time consuming battling will leave many people scratching their heads.

uhg... turn based

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: April 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game drove me insane when I was playing it. (Thank god I rented it) I was hoping for a nice game where you actually fight, rather than a horrible turn based piece of crap! I gave it two hours (And wasted my saturday night) and it seemed to have no story and the worst fights in gaming I have ever seen. This game is incredibly depressing (and the format of the fighting parts of the game-the parts that most sane people look forward to-sickens me. It's like pokemon colloseum)
overal, this a big dissapointment. If you like games that arn't turn based, I advise that you stay away from this game, otherwise, go for it... I guess...

Great Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have this game and it's very fun. I spend hours playing it. The people who don't like it seem to have just picked it up without actually reading that it's an RPG! Anyway, I like how the game has new characters to play as. The new characters are: Berethor, Citadel Guard of Gondor; Idrial, Elf of Lothlorien; Elegost of the Dunedain; Hadhod, Dwarf of Fundin's clan; Morwen, Maiden of Rohan and Eoden of the Riddermark. All of the characters get better armor and weapons throughout the game. I like equipping the characters, and creating new armor combinations is fun. During some battles in the game you get to play as Gandalf (Grey & White), Legolas, Gimli, Aragorn, Faramir, Eowyn and an elf named Aranel. You get to visit lots of cool places from the movie, including Moria, Helm's Deep, Osgiliath, Minas Tirith and Pelennor Fields. While you play the game you select one of the new characters to walk around as and three of the new characters to fight as. The three characters you select can be traded for the other new characters during the battle. (When a movie character is in a battle you have four characters, including the one from the movie, and the movie character can't be traded.) You can usually tell when a battle is coming because either the Eye of Sauron or a Palantir will appear in the corner of the screen and get brighter as you get closer to the battle. You can use co-op mode for two players, but it's not that great. Only one person can have a walking character, which means the other person has to wait until a battle to be able to play. The game is still great, but it's better for one player at a time. If you like Lord of the Rings, this is an excellent game. I definetly reccomend buying it!

terrible game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 16
Date: January 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The Lord of the Rings The Third Age is a terrible game. Three attacks and you're dead. It puts you up against 3 enemies so hard they take 100 damage each off you when you only have 300 life points. It has the worst graphics of all the 21 games in my collection. Three of my friends agree that it is an absolutely terrible game. Don't waste $50, it's barely worth 5.

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