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Boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: July 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is slow and boring, specialy during battles. I just want to say that i got this game and I just want to trow it in the garbage and get my money back.

Another crappy game from Easy -Arithmetic= EA Games

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: August 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Once again a game with no imagination from Easy-Arithmetic. EA is notorious for usings and raping really good stories: such as The Lord of the Rings. The storyline of this game is no where near finished and creative like what J R.R. Tokien would have liked. The graphics in this game are the worst in all the LOTR games that EA has ever come out with. EA is really running the Lord of the Ring's franchise thin. I mean really thin! If they keep coming out with these mediocre games, I'm not buying! And I recommend you don't either. This game does serious injustice.

where have all the real characters gone?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: September 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i did not like it at all. almost no relation to movies or book. no characters from the book and bad story. and, instead of running down the road into a band of orcs, a big green thing will apper, and you'll be in a fight. highly disrecomend it.

This SUCKED

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: September 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I finally rented this game after waiting about a month. I thought it would be like the Return of the King with the original characters and everything, but it wasn't. You would fight like the Pokemon games on Gameboy, and you wouldn't even start with the original characters like Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, and all the other ones. I played it for two minutes then shut the game off. It was so stupid. I would never in my life recommend this game. Don't even rent it like I did. What a hunk of junk!

boring

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: October 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i was really exited when I rented this game, thinking it was going to be yet another fun Lord of the Rings games.But I was sadly mistaken.I waasn't expecting it to be an RPG game,so after 10 minutes of playing it,I was bored to death.If your collecting the Lord of the Rings games, I suggest that you don't include this one.the reason i gave it 3 stars is because it was fun for about 5 minutes, but then it became stupid.I'm just sticking to the other Lord of the Rings games because those are actually fun.

Not like other Lord of the Rings

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: November 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you have played Lord of the rings 1,2, or 3 this game is completely different, you dont attack and parry or anything! you just take turns killing the other guy and him killing you so this game is really boring because its more strategy than action and adventure

Worst Lord of the Rings game ever - piece of RPG junk!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: December 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the worst possible lord of the rings game ever. It can't get any worse. I hate RPG games personally, but some people do like RPG. if you like RPG, its a good game, BUT I HATE IT. I bought it from a store for $20, played it, and called back to see if I could return it. I couldn't, so it's sitting in my game cabinet right now collecting dust.

I gave it 1 star for good graphics - that's it

Hello, it's a Gamecube LOTRs/RPG thing!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Listen guys, I just got the Third Age today and frankly, IT's A PRETTY GOOD GAME! Now, everyone knows the term RPG means role playing game. Incase you havn't played the none-RPG Lord of the Rings stuff let me explain. Both the Two Towers and the Return of the King were platform fighters via: hacking orcs, running down stairs etc. Now for those who're more indeepth gamers let me point something out. If the LOTR game makers took two popular sword play games and made the third an all out RPG with characters saying," My good sir, I have some chicken feathers, I'm willing to sale", the intire LOTR game system would sink into a hole. Take a look at the companys that made the games, compair The Return of the King with The Third age and watch the Two Tower's game interview.

Reminiscent of Final Fantasy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I don't often take the time to write a review on a game, but this game warrants it, I think. Okay, the game doesn't obtain greatness or anything (like Final Fantasy or Silent Hill), but it IS above-average overall. The term, "out-of-the-ordinary" applies, in my opinion.

The game has a fairly easy-to-understand combat system, a relatively interesting story line, above-average graphics, and a good character development system. I'll admit, the combat system reminds me a lot of the PS/PS2 Final Fantasy combat engines, which is both its' strength and its' weakness. I'm willing to bet of lot of the basic concepts used by the developers of this game came from Final Fantasy.

It's not as good as FF's combat system, but it makes a valiant attempt. I found myself actually having fun leveling up the characters' skills. I enjoyed the fact that two people can play at the same time, at least during combat. There are up to 6 character slots, with each player controlling up to three during combat. When combat is done, one person controls the exploration of the other characters, represented by a single character on-screen (and this character can be swapped out, as well).

The story line is not just a copy of the movie's, but has the characters following a new story that (sort of) parallels the original movie's. From time to time, you interact with the original movie story line (a little), too. For instance, I thought fighting the Balrog with Gandalf was interesting, although it was a bit too easy.

The parallel story line was a bit forced and stilted at times, but the designers did a decent job, considering the circumstances. I'm glad they didn't just re-hash the same story line from the movie. That's pretty much what the previous PS2 versions of LTR did, and I found those to be pretty dull.

There WAS one scene where Gandalf runs up and says "I'm here to warn you of orcs!" Then he runs away, and then you get a regular encounter with orcs that's the same as the 50 other random orc encounters you've already had! That WAS pretty lame, I'll admit. The rest of the story has been pretty good so far, however.

Let me say the graphics are good, but not awe-inspiring. They're a lot better than some of the other games I've seen out there lately, though. Remember, it's only a PS2...

I haven't actually finished the game. I've played 30% of it, but that's taken me 18 hours. At that rate, I should probably get 60-80 hours of game-play time before I finish. Plus, the game claims additional playability after you're done (don't they all, though?) I admit, I've dragged out the game's playing time a bit. I've done a lot of putting monsters to sleep with my sleep arrows, then casting lame spells just to build up my characters' action points so they can get their next level of abilities (a minor weakness of the game).

Overall, I give the game a rating of 4 out of 5. The bottom line: I bought the game...and I'm glad I did. If you loved the PS2 Final Fantasy series, you'll probably like this game. If you're a hard-core LTR fan, then I can see where you might not like the "unauthorized" additions to the original story. If you want something that tries to mirror the movie itself, then buy the earlier PS2 versions of LTR. You might like those better, although I thought they were a bit dull, myself...

A Bit Long...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love all things Lord Of The Rings. This game is great, if a bit hard at the start. The graphics are some of the best and most realistic I've seen on Nintendo in a long time. The only thing that bugs me is that you have to switch discs halfway through the game. I know that this is because of the intensive graphics and sound effects, but it's still annoying. All in all, this is an amazing game and probably one of the top two LOTR games I've ever played !

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