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The Fellowship of the Ring Game isn't clear

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I found that this game isn't very easily understood. You have to search and scrabble for any answers that you may need. This game needs to have a page for others to view eachother's findings. That would be a help. I enjoyed the books and movies, but the game is very frustrating to understand.

endless fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

In my daughter's words (age 8.5): I think this is an awsome piece of artwork that Vivendi should be very proud of,though I realized that the 2'nd hall in Moria was very confusing. It took me 1 month to figure it out. And so my sister named it 'the icky place.'But the fun continued. Fighting the balrog, slaying orcs and wargs, this is a lot of hack and slash. Although it's also a lot of puzzles and figuring out where to go and how. The graphics are great, though the characters' hair is very un-realistic, especially Aragorns.

Decent game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I suppose its decent enough in itself. It follows the storyline of the books and doesn't have irritating cut-scenes from the films. But too many glitches and when i played it crashed my computer thousands of times.

Overall, it's worth a play but beware it may well disappoint!

J.R.R. Tolkiens masterpiece comes on your controller or keyboard!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Now I am a big Tolkien fan and having the special extended versions on DVD, I thought of getting the FOTR (Fellowship of the Ring) PC game. And I love this game! It really captures the spirit though you do have to do a few activities like helping Fatty Bulger (Sorry if I misspelled his name) make a pie, etc. But I played the Two Towers and Return of the King games by EA Games, I hated those two because it did not follow the spirit much. It was also based on the movies by adding spices to a brilliant masterpiece. With FOTR, the graphics are good, the landscape is good, and best of all, it is not based on the movies! They have more characters (Tom Bombadil, and a few characters not mentioned in the movies.) Although they did spice the game up a bit, it captures the spirit of the book.

Now for the good:

Excellent graphics

The old Tolkien spirit lives in this game

Landscape is more like Middle-Earth

Creepy orcs, trolls, and many more monsters

the characters are in order (first you play Frodo, then

Aragorn, and then Gandalf, etc.) Even though some of you people
don't like that, it pretty much follows the book

Bad:

the only one I could find was adding a few scenes to the game that wasn't really needed.

If any gamer likes Tolkien, buy this game, it is worth it!

Can't seem to start it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: October 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This was a gift and I finally got around to installing it. Or I should say tried. I tried to run it on a laptop and 3 computers but the game will not start. Just a black screen.

The one thing to be aware of is the fact that your monitor card has to be texture and lighting compliant. My nvidia quardo fx 1400 from some reason will not work.

Also, note that Black Isle is dead and Vivendi has a not that they will no longer support this game.

Do not buy it.

If I ever get it running I will come back and change this review.

Lost interest

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: September 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was too difficult and too slow to maintain my interest. The plus side is that it is fun just to explore Middle Earth. If you have read the books, you'll enjoy seeing the written story protrayed in 3D. However, if you get stuck on problem-solving then you'll just stay in one area and quickly lose interest in playing.

Perhaps different levels of play (easy, difficult, expert) would allow inexperienced players like myself to enjoy the game.

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.

More adventure than action, different from the other games

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: June 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I played the PC version but it's also available on the PS2 and XBOX.

The Fellowship of the Ring is a fun, if short, romp through the first book in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It is not related to either The Hobbit (by Sierra) or the Return of the King or The Two Towers (both by EA Games). It is a pretty straightforward action adventure with simple quests and relatively easy-to-defeat foes.

What to expect:
* On the "action to adventure" scale, this game is heavier on the adventure side with simple puzzles and quests. There is definitely some combat and stealth involved, but you will find nothing like the endless hordes of foes that you'd encounter in the other Rings titles. (I love those games, by the way, this is just a very different experience.)
* This is a 3D action adventure that uses typical navigation: Move the mouse to look around, click the mouse buttons to perform actions and fight, use the keyboard to move.
* You'll get to play as a number of different characters in sequences that more or less parallel the first book in the Rings trilogy.
* If you're familiar with Tolkien's books, you'll find that this game is often more faithful to the source material than the recent films, and you'll meet some characters that the film left out.

What's good:
* The general production of the game (graphics, music, acting, cutscenes) is rather high quality. Some of the environs are very pretty while still being stylistically distinct from the films. It was very cool to casually wander around Bag End and Hobbiton.
* While the diverse gameplay may be distressing to some, I rather enjoyed it. At one moment you might be doing a simple search-and-deliver quest, at another moment you might be attempting to sneak by enemies or neighbors unnoticed. The combat sequences present their own challenges, depending on which character you're playing, or the specific weaknesses of your foes.
* All dialog is voiced, and it's done pretty well.

What's bad:
* It's actually unfortunate that the levels in this game are so attractive and interesting, because there are a lot of "invisible barriers" that will keep you from exploring them very thoroughly. Usually you can only run down a specific path and are prevented from jumping fences or running through fields. I would have really loved to be able to roam more freely throughout the games various areas.
* Companion AI is somewhat spotty. There are different times when you are accompanied by important figures from the story, but your friends have a tendency to fall behind, and they don't always fight back when attacked.
* It's too short. It's funny, because when I think back about the game, there are a LOT of locations and neat things to do. I guess it was just so easy that it didn't take long to accomplish all the goals. So, the game doesn't take very long to play, but you'll do a whole lot of stuff along the way.
* There's a stealth sequence involving the Nazgul (the ringwraiths) that's easily the most difficult portion of the game- unfortunately, it happens very early on and might threaten to dissuade the casual gamer from continuing. My advice: Find a walkthrough perhaps, or just try a lot of different hiding spots- there are a number of ways to get past this part. It'll get easier and less frustrating soon after.

Difficulty (from Very Easy to Very Hard): Easy

My rating (from Very Bad to Very Good): Good

You will probably like this game if you liked these: The Hobbit, Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal

Difficult

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was quite difficult for me to solve. I think what this game lacks is a few clues (hints) to get through to the next stage of the quest. The Balrog scene, for example, is a complete mystery to me. How do you kill this creature??? I've tried everything ... all Gandalfs tricks, nothing works!!! I think a lot of people will get so frustrated and dispondent from this challenge that they'll just give up. Also, the treebeard scene with Tom Bomberdil, I think his name is, was very diffucult and frustrating. God, I almost through the towel in, but I thought I'd persevere a little longer and it was just by luck that I got through!!

Ok, could you please tell me how to get through to the next stage of the Balrog scene. Gandalf has run out of ideas and his friends on the side-line are getting tired ...

It could have been better

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have played other LOTR games before, including The Hobbit for Gamecube, but I couldn't enjoy this game.
The first disadvantage is when you first start the game. A long ctscene plays, and every two to three seconds, the screen flashes white, which causes splitting headaches for people with eye problems.
You also must use a keyboard to play, which is extremely difficult; I can't even get out of Hobbiton without falling off a bridge. The game doesn't support gamepads (special controllers that you can plug in to your computer to play a game), and if it had, the gaming experience would be easier.
The graphics are choppy, which also tend to hurt your eyes occasionally. Sometimes, when you're walking around, it's hard to tell where you're going as trees and such sort of flash by.
There are two advantages, however, for this game. One is that it doesn't take as long as other PC/Mac games to install, and the other is that this game is purely based on the LOTR books, not the movies, so that you feel like you are playing the original adventure.
Overrall, get this game if you are a die-hard Tolkien fan, but keep in mind that there are more disadvantages than advantages to playing it.

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