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Great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

LOTR: Return of the King is a great and addictive game. The storyline is drawn directly from the movie and movie clips are used as cutscenes to smoothly transition from one scene to the next. The graphics are amazing and the controls are simple and easy to figure out. At times the game can be a bit challenging but never so frustrating that you throw the control across the room. This is probably the best game based on a movie that I have seen. Give it try, you won't be disappointed.

Best Ever

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Ok, THIS GAME ROCKS, realy sweet quick-hack-n-slash game-play, it bends the story line a little, like all of isingard is flooded by the time gandolf gets there in the book, but they change that in the game, it gives a good exuse for another fight though...
the graphics: ok, like Aragorn and all the main guys are great looking with alot of detail, but the orcs are pretty bad, with allmost no color.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is very good overall. The attack system is simple attack and defend, but there are about 50 buyable moves with each character. All the levels, about 10 are really challenging. Also, there is co-op which doubles the fun. The graphics are great and the controls are easy. The gameplay is fun. The cutscenses and game music are also great. You should buy this game

Great Game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best games I have ever played. The gameplay is fantastic and the graphics are above average for the xbox. I am a huge LOTR fan, and this game satisfies my hunger for an orc-smashing good time. I strongly recommend this game for any action game or LOTR fan.

Gave this as a gift and the kids still play them all the time

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Gave this as a gift and the kids still play them all the time. Im not a huge console game fan (I'm more of a PC FPS player) but my nephews love these and said to rate them four stars! I gave them the whole LOTR set along with the Hobbit.

Awesome!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is just great. The sounds are good, and the graphics are too. Some levels are too hard, though. I can't beat the Shelob part. Also, when you walk, you suddenly kind of change your view, which confuses people a lot until you get to understand all of that. They should have more blood in there, and more character levels. They should have more upgrades also...

Isn't this the same?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: April 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

One question? Isn't this the same game as the two towers. Besides the fact that there of course different missions and different characters, its practitally the same game as before.

Pros:
Good graphics
Good music
Lots of characters
Fun missions

Cons:
ITS THE SAME GAME AS TWO TOWERS.
THE SAME POINT AS TWO TOWERS.
PRACTICALLY THE SAME MOVES AS TWO TOWERS.
SAME MUSIC AS TWO TOWERS. (I still like it though)
THE LAST BOSS FIGHT WITH GOLEM SUCKS!

Overall, this game...is fun, but the the exact same as before.

A golden turd is still a turd

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: April 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

(...) This is an okay game as a matter of gameplay, (way too easy and way too short) but the graphics were horrible. The views made me want to puke. The visuals were way worse than the two towers game (which was way easy) but I actually enjoy. One thing- I LOVE GAMING BUT I ONLY PLAY TWO HOURS A WEEK- SERIOUSLY. THE FIRST TIME I PLAYED A VIDEO GAME WAS IN EARLY 2002. OMY GOD. GIVE ME A BREAK- THEY SHOULDN'T EVEN HAVE CHECKPOINTS THIS IS SOOO FRIGGIN EASY! BUY NINJA GAIDEN THE BEST GAME WITH HALO AND SOUL CALIBUR 2 (EASY AS HELL, BUT GREAT VS BATTLES)- HELL YEAH!

Awesome Game but.....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: September 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

.....This game rocks the setup and graphics are Great! Controls are Great too. But the game is sometimez hard even on easy mode! But overall it's Great!

Very scripted

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was seeking a solid fantasy multiplayer game for me and my wife to play and beat the winter blues. It started with me playing solo mode until the game was beat. The game is nothing to get worked up about.

Overall, the biggest diappointment is in how scripted the plot is. No surprise given that it's based on a movie, but it was a matter of laboriously going over all the hard parts, remembering which goblins to hack up, then making it to the end successfully. So: run, hack, finish, repeat.

For example, while playing Sam in Escape from Osgiliath, one cannot possibly kill all the orcs or else Frodo will get all loopy over the Nazgul. So one must figure out which orcs to kill and which ones to run past. Half the time you can't see anything because incoming catapult explosions hide the game from view. The other half is spent delivering the same three quick strikes to the same aggressive orcs. After about 7 times of playing the same drawn out scene over and over, I was able to complete the task.

At the Black Gate, there are different stages that one must accomplish. The first two are pretty straightforward: stand there and slice anything that moves, especially the big guys. The third stage is difficult. Failing there forces one to return to the beginning of that mission adding needless monotonous repetition that gets old quick.

If you're psycho about Lord of the Rings, you may as well get this game and get it out of your system. At least get it used! Otherwise, you're missing nothing by taking a pass.

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