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Excellent Addition to the LotR Franchise

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Ok, this game is terrific. I have been playing it for months, and am just now playing the last level. A word of warning level 11 will kill you!!! lol Anyways, this game is terrific, and in my opinion a better game than Return of the King, (which I beat a few times.) HIGHLY Reccomended.

decent for a beat 'em up, unplayable if you like lord of the rings

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

I bought these for my son, who likes them, but hasn't seen the films. Being a modest Lord of the Rings fan, who's seen the extended versions and the regular versions of the films many times apiece, who's read the Lord of the Rings, and read some essays and books about Tolkien; I was gravely disappointed.

I'll put up their flimsy defense first: EA had the license only from material from the films, not the books. Therefore all material used in the game could only be culled from the films or completely fabricated.

What they did do was take the material of the films, already edited and manipulated from the book and reduced and recyled even more, then added stunningly made up scenes that actually contradict what happens in its parent work. It's unbearable.

Examples:
* Many levels are complete fabrications that have no relevance to it's source material. The Rohan attack and the camp of Orcs in Fangorn come to mind.

* Dialog was created by the actors that simplifies the story. The Merry, Pippin, and Sam are seen in the video clips but not mentioned in the storyline. The remaining fellowship actively helps Frodo escape the attack of the Uruk-hai that killed that poor guy with the horn (Boromir, if you like the source material).

The game itself is similar to "Bad Dudes" or "Double Dragon." Graphically it's much better, but the premise, to kill everything, is the same. I can see it being a quick and easy way into the LOTR universe, for 10-13 year olds, but avoid it if you're a LOTR fan.

THE BEST GAME EVER ON EARTH

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: January 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

YOU MUST GET YHIS GAME BECAUSE IT IS FUN. IT MAY BE EASY BUT IT IS ALWAYS VERY VERY FUN. I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD OWN THIS VERY VERY FUN VIDEO GAME. GRAPHICS DON'T MATTER WHEN YOU ARE HAVING LOTS OF FUN.I THINK HAVING FUN IS MORE INPORTANT THAN GRAPHICS AND CONTROLS AND ALL THAT STUFF THAT PEOPLE JUDGE A GAME BY. A GAME IS MADE TO HAVE LOTS OF FUN.

Lord of the Rings: Two Towers

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you're not a LotR fan then DON'T buy this game. If you are an LotR fan than this is a MUST HAVE. Here's why:

PROS:
One word: storyline. What could be better than a nice LotR video game? The game can sometimes be addicting despite it's poor graphics. However, the game is FUN! Fight through TONS OF ORCS AND URUK-HAI, use Uruk-Hai explosives, and slay a few trolls. LotR Two Towers is begginer friendly, starting out with Isildur to introduce you to the game's controls and such. Getting bored with Two Towers is not a problem, until you've finished the game that is.
CONS:
Two Towers is hard to understand from an outsider's view. The graphics are HORRIBLE, and some of the levels are REALLY BORING! (Like Fangorn for instance). The game is short, nut same goes for RotK and Third Age so this is not a problem for most fans. Did I mention that the graphics were horrible? They could even give you a headache sometimes like after you fight in an area with NO LIGHT for a long time, and you CAN'T SEE AT ALL! Plus, you can only fight with THREE CHARACTERS.
HOW YOU SHOULD PLAY:
You can fight with Aragorn, Gimli, or Legolas. Aragorn and Legolas are probably the most addicting characters, but Legolas' has low health. Gimli is the strongest one, and Aragorn is a combination of each. If you are a begginer or want it easy than I reccomend you play as Aragorn. If you want a challenge play as Gimli, and if you are a FAN WANTING THE BEST FUN POSSIBLE, play as Legolas. I reccomend him as a fan and Aragorn as a gamer.
RATINGS
For fans: ****
For non-fans or people trying to get interested: ***

good but wayyyyy too dark!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: September 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

and i don't mean "dark" by being violent i mean too dark as in it was completely black and the person i was fighting as ran into a something slashing and bashing and making sarcastistic remarks and then for some reason i got a game over.i slashed,crashed and smashed my way for about oh say 3 minutes!! then i was stabbed from behind because the guy was saying something like "i'll make soup out of you yet!!!". *sigh* oh well it was still fun at least i didn't see blood.

Slash and hack in Middle Earth

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

LotR: The Two Towers is the video game tie-in from EA that spotlights the action sequences from the first two films in the series. Choose from Aragorn, Legolas and Gimili, and fight through locations like Balin's tomb, Fangorn Forest, Rohan, and Helm's Deep. EA managed to snag the original cast from the films, so not only will you be hearing their authentic voice-overs as you play, but you can also unlock movie clips where they discuss the recording process.

I actually played the Return of the King game before Two Towers, making for an interesting experience. Return of the King adds several enhancements to the graphics engine and fine-tunes the gameplay, not to mention allowing you to play as nearly the entire fellowship. Two Towers feels very limited in comparison, and many of the missions feel horribly short (you're in and out of Rohan before you know it). It's only the last three missions in Helm's Deep that offer any challenge, and coupled with the awesome graphical effects its clear that the designers based the game around this scenario. What Two Towers does right though, is moderate the difficulty level. The last few levels of Return of the King were kicking/screaming unfairly frustrating, whereas the challenge in Two Towers is high without losing the fun factor. I want to concentrate on killing the enemy, not worry about my teammates who can't take care of themselves.

Overall, Return of the King is technically the better game all around, with 2 player action, more characters, better graphics, etc. But both games are very well put together, and its worth the cash for Lord of the Rings fans to have both in their library.

Not so great

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: May 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm not too specific about graphics but there is one thing thats sudden death to a game. Proportion, I started the game as legalos and right away I wasn't impressed, c'mon the characters in this game look big and fat and their faces are not very good. And to top it off the game is short. All in all if you want to buy a hack and slash game buy the return of the king, it has great graphics and the people look really realistic, but like its prodessesor its pretty short too.

fun but hard

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game was really fun until you get to one of the levels ( the second to the last) In that level it takes at least a whole day to beat and gets boring after you play it over and over again. And all the other levels before the really hard one were really easy. Then all of a sudden you get to one you can't even beat. Other than that it's a fun game and some of the combats are just cool. So. either rent the game or buy the game and get cheats of the internet.

*sigh* Was expecting more

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: December 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well, I had beaten LOTR: The Return of the King which was incredibly fun and had a great set-up. So I decided to work my way backward through the games, starting with LOTR: The Two Towers. Wow! It was horrible, the graphics were much worse the LOTR: The Return of the King, I started and the intro where you learn how to fight was just sad. It was the same buttons as before but it took forever for it to explain them all, and it was dull, nowhere to go, so you had to just sit there waiting for Orcs. After what seemed like forever I moved onto the next scene. The fighting was horrible, I could have taken "The Nine" in LOTR: The Return of the King but the combat in this game wasnt any good so the moves that happened so quickly before were slowed down to an agonizing rate! I finnaly decided that if its going to be that bad now why sit here and deal with the whole game. I thought it would be much better than it was and I advise you to exclude this from your shopping list.

Very Fun, But Not As Fun As ROTK

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: August 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I purchased the Return of the King game several months ago and decided to get the Two Towers. The graphics aren't as good as ROTK, but then again, it's a couple of years older - so that can be looked beyond. The game play is very fun and the Helm's Deep levels are pretty intense. I found the Helm's Deep levels to be harder than any level on ROTK. The only disappointing things about this game is that it seemed short and there is no two-player play like ROTK. But, putting aside the graphics because of its age, it is a really fun game and it was worth the $20.

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