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A Must Buy For All Tolkien Fans!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 65
Date: September 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've been following this game closely ever since I heard it was being made. It looks like it will be an EXCELLENT game for any Lord of the Rings fan. The game is based on the book, as opposed to the movie - so you'll be able to play parts of the book that weren't included in the film. You'll be able to have control of Frodo, Aragorn, and Gandalf in certain parts of the game. Bottom line: The people at Universal Interactive have been working their butts off making this an incredible game, faithful to the book, but also action-packed. I can't wait until it comes out. Pre-order this game today!

The same game??

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 33 / 45
Date: December 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have to wonder if I am playing the same game as the people who are tearing it apart on here. I have had no trouble whatsoever running it on my HP Pavillion 1 gig processor w/256 megs of RAM and Nvidia Tnt 2 pro card.. I guess you people who are complaining about problems running it must not have a quality computer in the first place. But anyway, I am trying to make sense of the harsh reviews on here. I have only played the demo so far, but hope to get the actual game soon. But contrary to the bad reviews on here, so far it's a truly incredible game. The voices are the actual cast members from the movie I believe so they are done very well. The graphics are cutting edge in this game cutscenes and otherwise. As far as movement, it's a new engine and takes getting used to but in first person mode, the movement is fine. But Middle Earth Comes to life in this game and it's a must have for TRUE FPS fans and especially LOTR fans. As for people saying they finished it in 4 hours, they had to be cheating their butts off to do so. You people need to think before you write such bad reviews for games, because apparently none of the people who rated this game badly have an inkling of what a truly good game is. One last thing, I read a review where someone actually said the movie was bad? NOT!! The movie was phenominal and was robbed of the best picture oscar it truly deserved by the bias of the academy of films against Sci-fi genre movies, the same reason StarWars didn't win the year it came out. Enjoy the game folks, it''s well worth the money so far. Don't take these harsh reviews to heart before actually trying the game itself. You'll find the harsh reviews don't hold water in the end.

Great game for TRUE Tolkien fans!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 23
Date: January 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I love RPGs and this is a great one! All the people complaining about camera angles have nothing to complain about because the gamer controls the camera angles.In addition, anyone who is mad about the story or the voices not being the same as the movie shouldn't have bought the game thinking it was going to be the same. The package said nothing about being "based on the movie." Overall I was very impressed with the graphics, especially the Shire which was beautiful. I also had no problems installing or playing the game on XP. So, those of us who knew Tolkien before Peter Jackson, buy this game! It lets you walk through the Fellowhship as Tolkien wrote it (WITH Tom Bompadil!). Then for those people who only want blood, gore, and big scary monsters; go rent the DVD.

good game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 21
Date: October 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I would have to say that this is probably the best game i've ever played. however, i am a HUGE fan of lotr, so i ignored some things with this game. if you are a lotr fan, then get this game. i finished the game w/in 4 days of buying, i spent probably a grand total of probably 10 hours on it, so the game is not that long. it is challenging at times though, especially in the shire getting past the ringwraiths (that took me about 3 hours.) graphically its awesome. you want remember the soundtrack. don't expect to see characters resembling the movie characters. my biggest complaints were: when there are a lot of people on the screen and there is a lot of action going on it would skip. also, while fighting the zombie creature in the wright barrow house and the ringwraith at the end of the game, they both disappered causing me to restart. be sure you save your game after you do things. i would get real far in the game and then die, causing me to start way back at the beginning, cause i would forget to save. i highly recommend this game, but i think i might go buy EA's 'The Two Towers' when its released.

WARNING!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: June 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

DON'T BUY "THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING" PC GAME IF YOUR PC DOES NOT HAVE THESE SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS LISTED ON THE BOTTOM:

1. Windows 98/2k/me/xp
2. 600 Mhz Processor
128 MB RAM
3. DirectX 8.1b Complient Video Card (32Meg with single pass, multi-texturing and T&L)
4. DirectX 8 Complient Sound Card
5. 4X CD ROM Drive
6. 800 MB Hard Drive Space

IF YOU DON'T HAVE THOSE SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR YOUR PC THEN DON'Y BUY THIS GAME BECAUSE IT WON'T WORK (INSTALL) FOR YOUR PC. BUT IF YOU DO HAVE THOSE SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ON YOUR PC THEN YOU ARE VERY LUCKY. "THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING" PC GAME SHOULD INTSTALL INTO IT. THIS GAME HAS GREAT GRAPHICS AND SOUND. THE STORY LINE AND GAME PLAY ARE WELL-DONE FOR THIS GREAT GAME. ITS WORTH EVERY PENNY (IF IT IS CAPABLE OF BEING INSTALLED INTO YOUR PC THAT IS).

Lord of the Rings

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 84
Date: September 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well, it's the Lord of the the Rings... what can we say not good about him/it ? ;)

THIS ROCKS AND ROLLS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: February 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

THIS IS AWSOME. I LOVED IT BECAUSE THE CHALLENGING CONTROLS AND THE AMAZING GRAPHICS. INSANELY AWSOMENESS. AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING. JUST REMEMBER TO SAVE FROM TIME TO TIME OR YOU HAVE TO START THE GAME OVER IF YOU FAIL WHICH IS ONE DRAWBACK BUT IS MADE UP FOR WITH THE CHARACTERS AND ENEMYS AND THE ENVIROMENTS ARE AMAZING AND YOU CAN EXPLORE INTO SECERET SPACES AND FIND HIDDEN STUFF ITS REALLY COOL. BUY IT

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!

This is going to be a good game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 19
Date: October 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Hey, we all have to admit the movie was at least kind of good. So,with this game following the book's storyline even more, it has to be better. I mean, come on, yo can play as Frodo, ARAGORN (in all caps because he is tied for coolest with Legolas), or Gandalf. This has to be tight. With Gandalf you could cast spells while slashing up orcs with Glamdring (his sword). With Frodo you should have the option of putting on the Ring and becoming Almighty in power. Then you can use Sting to chop up people and orcs and stuff. CHOP CHOP CHOP! Did I scare you? I'm sorry. Anyway, with Aragorn you should (you notice I put SHOULD instead of CAN.)be able to have the option of using the re-forged sword Narsil or use a bow and arrow like in Moria in the movie. You should battle orcs, Uruk-Hai (stronger orcs), the cave troll, the Balrog, the Black Riders, and have the option of chopping up the rest of the Fellowship. Ha ha ha. That would be funny. I can just imagine Sam saying, "What do we do now?" in Bree then I use Sting (even though Frodo does not have Sting at Bree) to chop his head off. Ooo, how that would be funny. Anyway, this should be a very good game since it's follwing the book even more than the movie and you get the coolest(tied) person to play, and you get to see Tom Bombadil who wasn't in the movie. I wonder what he's going to look like. This is going to be an awesome game for the PC.

Stupid people

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is great. You people who dont like it cuz it doesent follow the movie are STUPID. It CANT follow the movie cuz they DONT have the movie licence. EA got that licence and THEY make the movie game. Vivendi got the licence for the BOOKS, so THEY make the BOOKS game. That is the reason for the characters not to look like those in the movies. And those of you who says it's bad can TRY to get a bit further before you open your mouth. THIS GAME IS GREAT IF YOU HAVE ENOUGH BRAINS TO PLAY IT

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