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This is a waste of time money and effort

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: June 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am a big fan of the two towers xbox game which had acceptable graphics acceptable cheats such as restore health and acceptable short cutscenes.
This game has many faults here are some

*The cutscenes are to long if I wanted to see that long of cutscenes i would just watch the movie. i bought the game to play not to spectate.
*lack of cheats.. im not saying all of them but at least have the restore health cheat. what they have now is crappy to say the least you'd think they could make just one standard code for all the characters and not a whole book full like for instance the combo code for gandalf is diffrent from the one for frodo, and they dont let you have invicibillity or stuff like that till after you've beaten the game i mean why would you need cheats if not to beat the game , in mean why would u even bother replaying those frusterating levels. they are all summed up like this one: start game, two:load level 30 minutes of waiting for cutscene to play through no way around it, second frusterating levels combined with bad camera angles make this game crap!! I would give it 0 stars if i could my freind an me both hate it and eventually just gave up and throught it away i just wouldn't feel right donating a game gthat sucked so bad to charity i mean come on the easy setting is really hard and the cheats dont help u . so in recap dint buy this game it brings shame on the name lord of the rings. do the programers play this game or take into consideration the difficulty's and frusteration that comes with playing it! two thumbs way down......
All in all buy this game if u like the lord of the rings but this is one of those games you play just to say you beat it and then dont play again because the levels are so outrageously hard and frusterating, such as one that has you run back and forth much like the helms deep battle in the two towers.

easiest game ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: March 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game is so easy I beat it right when i got it.the graphics are ok but my Aragorn is level 11 and now he is useless i mean whats the point of buying an upgrade to someone that is level 11.legolas is level 1 and when i beat a long level with him he got to level 4.do not buy it you can rent it and on saturday or sunday you will beat the game.and also the last level the crack of doom you have to make gollum fall like over 10 times well don't buy it thats all i have to say

This game is HARD!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: January 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the hardest games I've ever played! And I've played a lot of similar games. I'm surprised that EA didn't realize that this game would appeal to non-gamers and hard core gamers alike. This game is simply too hard for most people. Don't buy this game, because you may find yourself frustrated by the third level. Rent it, DON'T BUY!!!

I wanted to really like it but...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: December 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Yes, the graphics are pretty neat
Yes, its cool that you get to be all these different characters on their different paths through the game.
I really really wanted to like this game but there are some serious flaws with the game.
SINGLE PLAYER
(1) The checkpoints throughout the levels are few and far between. You typically have to redo your last 15 mins over and over again only to get to the same part that you've had trouble with. As much as I've seen you're lucky if you get more than 1 checkpoint per level.
(2) The camera is on drugs. They want to really give you a sense that you're really part of the lotr by giving you the very cool camera angles and movements. However some things that work in films do NOT work in video games. I kinda liked it at first, but started likingit less when I couldn't a few enemies.
(3) You can not skip the cinematics til you've watched them at least once. I know this may seem petty but trust me, if you're playing this game you've most likely seen the movies and these cinematics are NOT short at all.

MULTIPLAYER (same complaints as single player plus...)
(1) Camera angles suck even more. Camera angles are slightly different in multiplayer to give you and your friend more space on the screen except that you can't see cause everything is further away in a lot of cases.
(2) No checkpoints, only a limited number of respawnings. Its proven to have been extremely anticlimatic...extremely. Again, NO checkpoints in multiplayer.

I had a lot of hopes for this and there a lot of very cool things in this game if you're a fan of LOTR but as for a game its more frustrating than any of my take-home exams this semester.

Good game...... but.........

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: January 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The Lord of thr Rings the Return of the King video game is a good game, but it has one problem.... the checkpoints are to far appart! Way to far apart! It is really anoying because I spent about one hour playing the game. I was doing really good but then I had to face this cave troll, unfortunatly it had alot of armor so it was hard to kill. So then I died and I went all the way back to my last checkpoint, and quess what, I got that chectpoint about one hour before I died so it was like that entire hour never happened. So I sugest you never get this game. Of course you can use the game for nice firewood. Yeah thats it the game will make exillent firewood. If you want a good game I sugest Metal Arms, Halo, Halo 2 (when it comes out), or PGR2 (Project Gothem Racing 2). Any of those games are fine, but don't get The Return of the King video game unless you want good firewood.

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.

Great Game that is alot of fun!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm not a wonderfully skilled video game player. I rented this game before I bought it. To many bad video game purchases and to much buyers remorse. This won't be the case with this game. Exciting from beginning to end. I would highly recommend it. It has something from the beginer to something for the more advance player. There is great effects and awesome Graphics and background. I would defiently think it is worth taking a chance on.

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.

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!

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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