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Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I think this game is pretty cool overall.

First off, the bads. The water is sometimes there and sometimes not. You can't be Legolas or Gimli. The faces and bodies of the characters look weird. Gandalf sucks with his sword when you first get him. The game is way too short.

Now for the goods. The weapons are pretty cool and the orcs, Uruk-hai, and trolls are cool too. The graphics aren't bad at all. You get to fight trolls, orcs, Uruk-hai, a barrow-wight, a Balrog, the Nazgul (Black Riders), Men, spiders, wolves, and wargs in a bunch of different environments that are pretty detailed.

The bosses in this game are sometimes easy, sometimes really tough. The only real big problem with this game is that it is too short. Overall the Fellowship is a pretty good game.

Dont Waste your time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: February 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is a mockery of the LOTR image that we have all come to love. By exagerating miniscule details to try and tell a story, you are lost in a lump of hard to see and just plain stupid puzzles and games. You would be better off watching paint dry then playing this game. Do yourself a favor, get Two towers or return of the king, you will not be unhappy with those purchases. This game is seriously making Tolkien roll over in his grave.

Point of view

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun, and is faithful to the book It is great to actually play as a character in Middle Earth, and wander in the Shire, etc. This is really the first PC game I have ever bought with the exception of Age of Mythology, and Buck Rogers about a million years ago on a PC in the Age of The Dinosaurs, so it is fun learning to play. I do have several problems with this game. The first is the white flashing when it starts, and also in the "movies" that occur from time to time. I do not like that you cannot choose which character you play, and are limited to Frodo, Aragorn, and Gandalf. I also have problems with the point of view of the character that you are playing. Sometimes it is impossible to see what is going on, or the character gets "stuck" in a wall or something. Movement is often limited down a predetermined path. This gets quite annoying at times. I am not finished playing ( I am to Moria) so I will see how the rest of the game goes, but all in all it has been fun so far.

AHHHHHHHHHH.......Dementia

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 38
Date: December 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Ges I don't really play that many games but I'm not that bad at it. The only thing this game has suceeded in is wrecking my head, I think I may need some serious help after it....What's the story, there are way too many boundries and hey if Froda can't run up a bloody hill then how in God's name is he going to get the ring destroyed. And what about that bloody TREE, I feel like putting my hand through the screen and killing OLD MAN WILLOW myself cos Froda has no hope.... Overall the worst game I've ever tried to play

No way! One reviewer must be playing a different game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

... I've just got to say, avoid this game. Short and buggy gameplay. Definately needs a patch and 10-15 expansion packs to be a reasonable game... ... i think i'll just drop the game.

what the....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game was not what i suspected and that was a bad thing. Game is like nothing of the book and or movie. this game almost put me a sleep. Only good thing mentioning is the graphics there good but everything els could and should be remade or fixed. For god shakes put legolas in!

different angle

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Just to let users know. I have the XBoX version of this game. It's pretty challenging and fun. It's a shame many PC users are having problems running it. A colleague of mine has the PC version and is not experiencing any problems running the game. Escaping the Nazgul in the Shire is another matter entirely. The game is more based on the Peter Jackson film with adjustments, storywise. If you love LOTR load up and enjoy. Takes a while though to finish. Whew.

Better than expected

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Let me preface this by saying that this is my first PS2 game ever, so my perspective is limited.

After reading horrible reviews I was actually pleasantly surprised by this game. It follows the book more closely than the P. Jackson movie, but still veers from the book's plot on occasion (especially at the end). It was fun to see Tom Bombadil and other episodes left out of the movie. I thought the landscapes were quite stunning at times, and I often wished I had more time to just look around and enjoy the view. But, unlike the book, the game throws endless hordes of spiders, orcs, and other beasties at our heroes in order to keep things exciting. In some places I thought the game did an even better job than the movie in its recreation of Middle-earth. I particularly liked the Mines of Moria and Lothlorien. The game also included singing, which is an essential part of the book that the movie ignores. On the other hand, the tunes to which the songs were sung were arguably worse than the sad attempts at music my own brain makes when reading the book.

Playing the three characters (Frodo, Aragorn, and Gandalf) provided variety. Frodo has to sneak around a lot (or run like hell). He can whack things with a walking stick (and eventually with Sting) and throw rocks, but he's not very powerful in combat (as expected). He does have the ring, however. I actually found it useful once or twice, although it can't be worn for very long.

Aragorn is pure combat. He fights with a sword or a bow (and once with a torch), and can also kick. I found it sort of pathetic when the heir of Isildur kept getting killed by some ruffians in Bree. Eventually, however, I honed my button-tapping skills and was able to defeat (at the expense of my carpal tunnel) two trolls, three wolves and some orcs who had cornered me near the end.

Gandalf was the most fun to play. He can fight with both his sword and with magic. He also uses his staff to go in for the kill. He is certainly the most powerful of the three (again as expected -- he is a Maiar, for heaven's sake!). His battle with the Balrog is probably the most challenging part of the game.

(One gripe I had was with the various cliffs and bridges. Some you can fall off and die, others you can't. There's no way to know this except experimentation. Gandalf's fight with the Balrog found me tiptoeing around the bridge trying to evade fireballs and get close to the beast. I only realized after a good long while that he couldn't fall off even if he tried.)

In the end, this game is worth playing if you like Tolkien (but aren't a die-hard purist) and third-person action games. Once again, it was my first PS2 game, so I probably enjoyed it more than an experienced and jaded gamer.

Big Blow

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I've had LOR:The Fellowship of the Ring for PC since last Christmas and it blows.I was really disapointed. The gameplay was weak and there was little action till you got to Moria and even then it was weak. If you like fist pumping action I do not recommend this. The Two Towers is way better. I also forgot to mention it is based on the book, not movie.

One game the suckest of them all.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: December 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I am a realy big fan of the lord of the rings, but I found the game to be borring and hard to controle. I did not like ANYTHING about this Game.

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