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Great Story, Graphics, etc...but no gameplay = NO FUN

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: January 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was one of those people who saw and loved "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring!", the classic movie. I thought the video game would be much of the same. Fun, great story, good graphics and overall just something to spend time playing. Well, I was wrong. This game is nothing like the movie, and in my opinion was a very over-hyped game. "Why?"

1. The gameplay: It's just boring. You start off spending an hour in the Shire, trying to do various tasks, which are rewarded very lightly. For example, you have to give the lady who's buying your house a letter, which takes 15 minutes to find (usually more). There is no map of the Shire, no hints of what to do. Everything has to be figured out by yourself. So after you find the little paper or letter, you walk back to give it to her. But nooooooooo wait, you have to find another item without any help and ring a bell because she believe there are "Wolves" in the shire. That's another 15 minutes if your lucky, 30-45 minutes if your not. You also have to complete close to a dozen tasks to get your "Corruption" rating up. If you become to corrupted (it's a second bar above your health), you just die. I had to start over several times because of that. So say that somehow you do get all this done, get stocked with supplies, talk to everyone, and are ready to go in less than 2 hours, you must escape the black riders. I did this, and it is extremely difficult, and yet in parts so easy it's stupid. There is always a certain area you can go where the black riders can't get u. And yet at the end, u must make a run for it. No where to go, no where to hide. And the black rider you must at the end escape from, is on a horse. Well, if you get past all that in 3 hours, without dieing, your lucky. Most people don't. And the whole process is just boring. No excitement, no real rewards. I hated the first part.

Well, once your out of the Shire, you head into a forest. The forest is full of creatures, which are all so easy to kill. You must find your 3 companions who came with u, who somehow get lost in 4 different parts of the forest. This alone took another hour, and if your not lucky, you'll get lost forever (literally). Once past that, you are caught by a willow tree, when u are suddenly saved by a fat, short man named "Tom Bambaldi" or something like that. You must then find 15 lilies, which takes another 30 minutes. At this point, I had died 5 times, had not found anything I liked, was bored, and was just sick of the repetitiveness of the game. That was my wonderful experience playing this game (luckily I rented, and returned the next day).

Graphics: This would get probably 4 stars. The graphics are pretty goood, but are PS2 graphics. It wasn't what it could have been. For example: The black riders are in total 3D, and look really cool. But their capes for some reason are flat and are in 2D. Very dumb. You can't go in the water, which once again, looks very bad. The leaves you can quote "Run through" you can only run through once. And they are very rare, only a few for each part of the level. But in many aspects, the game was good. You can break many things, and that's always fun as they fully destruct. The Shire is brought to life well, and in many ways, this game was fun to look at. But with the horrible gameplay, this game could not be saved.

3. Sound / Lasting Appeal: Well, the voice acting was fantastic, and the one point where this game was 5 stars. It was always fun to listen to people talk, and the cut scenes are very well done. Unfortunantly, this was the only fun part of the game. As for the lasting appeal, none. It takes 5 hours just to get a chapter into the story, and the whole thing, I'm afraid, just bored me.

If you think you can stand all this, then this is the game for u. Persounally, I think a game should start out easy and become challenging later on, and let u do something cool and interesting within the first hour. Some may like this game, but I sure didn't. Over-hyped, and over-bought, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring for the XBOX, PS2, and PC was a disapointment in my mind.

Hope this helped, and I prevented those who would have hated this game from making a VERY tragic decision.

Thx!

A MAJOR Disappointment!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: November 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well, having finished the game, I thought it only right that I share my opinion with those who might be ready to buy it. I am THOROUGHLY disappointed. I have completed the game in it's entirety in less than 3 hours of gameplay! The graphics are decent, but not that good and certainly not cutting edge. The cinematics are ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE. It's hard to describe it, but they look almost foggy, as if someone smeared virtual vaseline on the virtual lens that was shooting them. I didn't have any high expectations for this game because I thought it would be like most movie-based games --really, really bad. Well, I have to say that it sinks even below those expectations. I can't believe I paid [money]for this game. I feel dirty.

Let down

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: November 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Gameplay was fun. But it was short. I was thinking about getting the two towers version of this. Now i'm not. I felt like they watched the movie, picked out THREE key parts, made those into levels and that was about it! You've got, get out of the shire, get through moria, and then the game basically ends after you kill some orcs. NOT worth the money. I feel like this game played on the fact that there are tons of tolkien fans out there who would like to play a LOTR game. They capitalized on it, and were just out to make money. Should have rented it and beat it I guess. So what game play there was, was good. It was way to short. You don't even get to use legolas gimli boromir, or anyone else. What would have been cool is something more along the lines of zelda(freedom to travel around) and having some sort of team battle, where you could switch who you wanted to control. The computer takes over for the others. I was disappointed in this game. I will be looking at other peoples reviews on the next two... So sad.

Pretty good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I thought this is a pretty good game. They did a good job of re-creating the characters, and the scenery. It's not that long of a game, but it's challenging. You could spend an hour trying to figure out how to get past something that could only take two minutes. It's more based on the book than the movie, which is why Tom Bombadil is in it. If you're a Lord of the Rings fan, you'll love it.

Not for the light hearted - but excellent!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

... I've been on it all day, and still havn't got bored of it! The graphics are brilliant, the story line is almost exactly the same as the JRR Tolkien books which I thought was immpresive. You start off as Frodo Baggins and explore the Shire, making friends and running errands - this sounds tedious, but I assure you tis fun. This is the basic get to know the controls part of the adventure, but it starts to get more exciting when you meet the Nazgul. Sneeking past them and meeting up with Sam, Merry and Pippin in farmer Maggots garden.
After you go through the Shire, you have to find your way through a labirynth of forests and other such things. The only thing I wasnt too happy about was the fact that the characters didn't look or sound like the people in the film...but it was based on the book not the film, so I suppose its not a problem.
When you meet Aragorn, I found that the fun really began! You get to kill tonnsa orcs n wargs n collect things as you go. I was the edge of my seat all the way through, the tension is high! Its not that bloody, but the sounds the orcs make are impressive, lol, ok, i just like seeing them die! *evil cackle*
I'm actually stuck in Moria so I'm gonna go back and play the game now, but I HIGHLY reccomend it, and the budding LOTR fans will not be disappointed!

Too easy, too quick to the end and not worth the cost!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I do not play RPG's that often. In point of fact, this game was the first I have bought in almost 2 years. Anyway, I got through it in about 5 hours total playing time. It was fun for the Tolkien fan in me while it lasted, but I was shocked when the credits started to roll. Honestly, I started on a Friday night, played about 5 hours total though the weekend an finished with the Nazgul duel on the top of the mountain at 1:00pm Sunday! Not worth the price! Although Moria and the Balrog battle was kinda cool. I did enjoy being Gandalf and using the spells on people. And, if you are having trouble getting out of the Shire, just keep trying! Hint: rocks are good decoys for the dump wraiths in this game!

Don't Waste your time buying this!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Great when I had an Atari. Playability poor, Graphics OK, Spend your money on something else. With all the high quality games out there I was very disapointed in this product.

Dont waste your time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Vivendi Universal should hang it up with making PC games, ever since they took over Sierra they have been turning out bad games, this one is one of them. the graphics are medicore, the sound is awful, and game play is boring, I would rather watch TV or surf the web than to play this.

This game can't get better

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME. There are a lot of [people] out there who think the game is to short or boring. Well I got news for them this is the best adventure game out there along with Jedi Outcast 11.
Graphics:10
Gameplay:10+
Controls:9+
Hardness:10++

Thats what I give this game the hardest most fun game out there. And for all those wimps who can't get past the black riders listen to this. When the Nazgul is going to Bags End run like hell down the road and hide behind the mill. Does that help? Hope so. All the characters are fun but I personally love playing Frodo even though he has weak weapons. Moria took me 3 days it is so hard. ... BUY THIS GAME PEOPLE IT SO COOL!

VERY ENJOYABLE

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

SO WHAT IF THERE IS A LOT OF NEGATIVE REVIEWS ABOUT 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING' PC GAME. I ENJOYED PLAYING IT A LOT. IT JUST HAS SO MUCH FUN AND GAME PLAY TO OFFER.

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