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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.

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.

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

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.

Sword action

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

lots of fun as you learn to use combinations of buttons to make your attacks more lethal against hordes of beasts. After beating the game there are bonus missions where the only goal is to kill as many enemies as possible.

Beyond awesome!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I played this game before I saw Return of the King.I had seen the first two.It's awesome!You can play as a multitude of characters,from Frodo to Sam to Gandalf,to Aragorn,Legolas,and Gimili.After completing the game,you can unlock Faramir,Merry,and Pippin as alternate characters.You can fight at such places as the Dimholt mountain,the Southern Gate,the Pelenor Fields.Shelob's lair and much more.The game is all in all awesome and I love to play it.It is a complete rendition of the film.Get this game,if possible!

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.

Camera angles - arrghhh!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm still trying to understand the game designers' intent with this one. You play one of several of the major characters in the LOTR series: Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Sam, Frodo. I've tried both solo and "co-op" with my son (i.e., multiplayer on the the same box with 2 controllers. In this case, there is no split screen, so you can never part ways). There is a 'mission tree' that you have to 'climb' - essentially it chronologically sequences the events/missions to match the movie/book. For some missions, you can play solo, but not co-op, or vice versa. And for the most part, the missions presume to fill in gaps in the movie sequence, e.g. battling your way through the Halls of the Dead with Legolas, Aragorn, and Gimli - lots of undead to kill, pathfinding through the caves, etc. Or battling as Gandalf on the parapets of Minas Tirith. You advance levels, get to select special attacks (higher level = greater attacks and selection), and hack through missions.

The cut scenes and visuals are not bad as is the voice-over acting. Generally, the strength of this game is the replication of the major characters and many of the scenarios: the situation setup and familiarity draw you into the game as they provide continuity from mission to mission and most folks have seen the movie.

It's the camera angles that became frustrating on several occasions. Here's how the work: just like a movie. "What's that mean" you say? It means that your watching the game as if it were viewed from static, pre-staged, 3rd person cameras. Sometimes your looking straight down, from the side, or even into the faces of the charactes and there's nothing you can do to change the viewpoint! Occasionally, you can't tell where to go next or some object screens your field of view. Example: Gandalf's running right-to-left across the parapet's of Minas Tirith, close-in shot (say, 40 feet away), perpendicular to his travel, and you can't tell what's further down the parapet as the 'camera' neither pivots, follows your character, or changes to another 'shot' even when you've got a bunch of orcs running in from 'stage left' and off camera! Use ranged weapons? Plan for 10 orcs bearing down on you? Nope, can't even see them coming. When you do, it's too late (although with the right powers, it's not really impossible, just annoying).

I suppose the camera technique is supposed to enhance the cinematic effect - but playing it as a video game, I found myself often trying to peer around the inside to the left and right (and top and bottom) of my TV screen to 'look into the wings' of the stage to see the offstage badguys comin' at me.

Get it cheap and if you're a LOTR fan. Otherwise, you won't be to thrilled.

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.

Awesome Game!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: February 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome. It has great grafics, and cool levels. Trust me you will love it.

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