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Great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 17
Date: August 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Educatonal for LOTR fans because it tells you what happens before the hobbit and the movies.

This is not like any of the movie games at all!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 36
Date: November 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I got this game a couple days ago. I figured it would be like the 2 towers and return of the king. IT'S Not! You have to "select your move" and all that junk. The only reason I gave it one star was the graphics. And lastly to finish my angry review,this game has a bunch of non-trilogy characters.

BORING!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 37
Date: November 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I got this game thinking yes a new lord of the rings game. But it is nothing like the first to. In the first to you get to attack any bad guy when ever you want to. In this game you and the other people "Take Turns" attacking. And half the time your people miss. (...)

a missleading game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well, I guess I will start out with what I liked about this game. I found that I got into the game right away and that it was very entertaining. I liked that it had a more classic RPG fighting system where it is turned based. It is also quiet entertaining to watch the little movie clips and see how the game designers intergrated them into the game.

Now for the parts I didnt like. First off, after reading the box, I expected to either play on the side of good or the side of evil. By this I mean that I was wanting to play an RPG with the evil characters. After all that was the impression I got from the box. However, this is not the case. You must play the game on the side of good to unlock the Evil Mode Chapters. After you do this, you get to FIGHT, yes only FIGHT as the evil characters. There is no RPG for the evil side just fighting as them. To me this was BIG let down because I was expecting a great new take on the LOTR thing and I got let down big time. Also, I find that the game was made so that your party shouldnt get fully whiped out. For example, SPOILER , When in Moria Gandalf joins your party for one battle (im not going to say what battle but if you think hard enough you will guess right) and he is the character who basically wins that entire battle for you.

Overall. I would say the game is worth a try, but I would rent it first before buying it. It is a good game but it let me down with what I would classify as Misleading (or False) advertizing.

I don't see how people could hate this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Seriously people!!! Call me biased, since I'm pro-Tolkien and pro-video games, but to think that anybody could like two towers and return of the king more than the third age is absolutely ridiculous...the two towers and the return of the king (along with the fellowship of the ring) made great volumes of Tolkien's masterpiece, and they made great episodes of Jackson's (who no doubt was inspired by Tolkien) masterpiece), but they did not make great video games for EA Games...in fact, I would pick Vivendi's fellowship of the ring or the hobbit as the best middle-earth action game, since it was truer to Tolkien's Middle-Earth than the two towers or the return of the king (which, by the way isn't even all that close to the movie trilogy if u think about it)...I'm also pro-rpg, and I'll admit that the third age is simple, but that makes it attractive to newbies, and yet it provides enough to keep rpg veterans like myself playing it for all it's worth...people who complained about the rpg mechanics (other than the absence of shops or lack of interaction with NPCs, of course) are clearly picking on the lack of realism in the game since it wasn't what they expected, but if you wanted realism, why the hell are you playing an lotr game? I wouldn't buy the other two games (two towers and rotk) because it was so closely linked to the movie, just like I wouldn't buy the hobbit or fotr because it was closely linked to the books (but I did like 'em better than two towers and rotk, as I've already mentioned)...I was making plans to buy the third age the moment I heard it was a rpg, which not 1, but TWO players could play co-operatively (well, at least in combat)...and yes, some people were disappointed at the fact that we can only fight and do nothing else as the baddies in evil mode, but I personally wouldn't want to corrupt Middle-Earth (since both Tolkien and Jackson did an excellent job of emphasizing ugliness for the evil dudes while showing beauty and wonder; be it past or current, in the world of the good) so ur eyes would hurt from seeing too much grey and black the further you played an evil RPG, which is why it isn't there, but hey, at least u get to use the Nazghul and the Balrog, right?...as for the shops and NPCs, isn't it bad enough we've got chests all over the place, how many shops and friendlies whould we actually expect to run into in those battlefields...so in conclusion, this game rocks, and if you don't think so, I'm sorry but I think your video game experience should only be restricted to Tetris and (if you play computer games) Solitaire.

lacks a lot of RPG qualities

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game is kinda fun but gets dull after doing the same thing over and over. the game lacks buying and selling items. also you can only have 3 characters fighting at once. it's nice that it tells you when you are getting close to a fight but it takes away the fun of suddenly running into a fight unprepared. the story is really stupid and sort of ruins the movies. if you like RPG's don't play this game it will destroy your heart, I would recommend final fantasy games or morrowind.

Expecting more

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: December 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

While I agree with people that it is a good game, I was left wanting more. SPOILER:I didn't like the whole Gondorian likes Elf and Elf likes Gondorian, then party meets Thief, Elf is jealous of Thief, Elf get stolen, Gondorian saves, can't be together, so he falls for thief. It made me mad that I waited the whole time for that. And then by the second disk you find out that the Gondorian was stabbed by a Morgul blade and that Sauron was using him for an inside killer-that's not the bad part; the bad part is that they tell you over and over and over again, like we didn't hear it the first time. The battles took some time to get used to. There were quests, but most you had to do anyways because you went right through them. One of the funnier parts for me was at Helm's Deep before dusk. You got to explore Helm's Deep to find Legolas, Gimili, Aragorn, Theoden and other people from Rohan. I think it would have been a better game if could have started out at Rivendell - maybe after the fellowship already left and had them follow the tracks of the other group. Also I didn't mind the battle parts but come on, can't we do something else besides battling every creature in middle earth. So I think I was expecting too much. All in all it wasn't a bad game, just not the long awaited one I was hoping for.

READ THIS BEFORE YOU BUY IT!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: December 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First off I must say I don't really care for RPG games, but this one in particular was the worst I've ever seen. Even my friends who like RPG games hated this one. You play as less than reconizable characters from the book, which in fact has them in different places, not on a trip. Unlike The Two Towers, not an RPG, you run around without getting attacked, and when you are attacked the fight isn't determined by your swordsmanship, you have to attack in an orderly fashion, each person with there own turn, and the can't be hurt unless it's the other person's turn. You can't save unless you run long enough that you run into a "saving station". When you win a battle the heroes make stupid victory dances.

A COMPLETE WASTE OF MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: September 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game before I looked at the reviews, and now I regret buying it. It is the 2nd worst game I have ever played(1st being Finding Nemo). If this game sound cool to you don't buy it before renting it. If you don't rent it first, I am telling you, it is a waste of money!! I payed $20 on this when I could've spent it on a better game, now I wasted 20 bucks on that piece of junk! I lost valuable weapons on that game because I died but could'nt save at any time I wanted to. That is why you should rent it first or waste your money.

MIGHT AS WELL PLAY IN THE DARK

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 17
Date: November 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Lord of the rings......by far my favorite movie/game/music in the world. this game, has most of that. the graphics are really good. the attacking is kinda like final fantasy/pokemon stadium. BUT before you start saying "cool i want this game" you cant see a thing!!!! i rented this game and everthing is fine....until you get to the mines of moria. you cant see anything!!!!!! you have to look at the minimap 24/7. this is a really dissapointing game.

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