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Great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I really enjoyed this game. While it has a set storyline, so do a lot of other games. the LOTR video games are also similar to this, except that this game has more dialogue and a storyline different from that of the movies.

Excellent

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was awesome. Definitely for the LOTR lovers. Action-filled and a great game

a biased opinion from a true lotr fan

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 29
Date: August 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

ok, now for you hardcore lotr fans, this game should be the best lotr game in the franchise. only a lotr rpg would get this title. for the hardcore fans, there really isn't anything better to do than just wander middle earth and observe the whole world someone's created. i mean, sure, the graphicks probly gonna kick butt, and the gameplay is probably going to be just like ffx, which is a good thing, but for myself, the best part of this game will be roaming middle earth, killing orcs, fighting with the fellowship, and the ability to be a dwarf, elf, and human. this will truly be the best lotr game yet

Beautiful graphics and great considering it's a turn-based game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I think this game has beautiful graphics, good character development, excelent narration and beautiful music from the movies. You travel through the game at the "age" that the Lord of The Rings movies take place, but you play characters from all over middle-earth.
The down side to this game is that it's nothing like a Morrowind RPG where there is freedom to to just about anything, it is pretty closed and doesn't give very many choices.

It has the option to play co-op (which I haven't done yet), travel mode (where you can go to any level after you have unlocked them) and evil mode (this is very fun and gets you special items that you can use in the "regular" mode of the game) Overall a very nice game.

My son thinks this game is great!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I received this game in perfect shape! I am very pleased with the seller and the game. The game was a gift to my son for Christmas and he plays it all the time!

This game is worthless!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First off, who thought up the marketing idea that continually interspersing scenes from the LOTR movies would be a great selling point? The scenes have nothing to do really with the game and it gets annoying after awhile. Second, I got totally frustrated at how I'd finish a battle then move on and then if I wanted to backtrack I'd have to fight the SAME BATTLE all over again - it can't be avoided! Other games, if you defeat and win in a battle it's done. You can go back over that same area and not have to fight the exact same battle over and over and over again. You can't choose the character you want to be which sucks and there's not really many treasures to find and they are mostly lame anyway. As a fan of LOTR, I found this game boring, frustrating and totally lacking in creativity. Don't waste your money.

Wow! This is really bad!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If I was one of the programmers of this game I would be embarrassed to have my name in the credits.

I've been a LOTR fan since I was a child and have been waiting for some decent games to transport me to that other world. I was really excited about this game but never bought it. I finally got around to renting is this weekend.

I've put about 15 hours into it...not because the game is any good, but because I paid $8 to rent it and I'm going to get my money's worth out of this.

The Pluses:
1. The graphics are good - not great...just good
2. The sound is really good

The Minuses:
1. You get a party of 6 characters but only three can be involved in any fighting ever
2. If you cast a group-based spell, only the characters on the screen get the benefits
3. There is no way to share weapons, armour, etc
4. There is no way to cast spells unless you are in combat
5. Game is so linear it's not even worth guessing where to go...it will tell you you must do A before you can go to B
6. It tries to tie into and parallel the FOTR by adding Gandalf and other characters that talk to you, but the discussion feels like you just walked into a conversation half-way through
7. You can't drop anything you have picked up...so at this point my dwarf is carrying 6 battleaxes and 1 warhammer, plus extra armor, etc
8. Stats mean virtually nothing...
---as your party increases its skills in strength, spirit (magic points), etc they become more powerful and do more damage...which you expect
---problem: some how the same monter that you could kill with a damage of 200 now takes 2600 points...what's the point of going up?
9. The box says 1-2 players...what this means is that player 1 or player two controls the one character that shows up on screen while moving around - the only time that the other player comes into the game is in battle when there are only 3 characters on screen
10. There is no interaction with the world around you...you just walk around, kill stuff and listen to Gandalf or other NPCs

I could go on but these are the big issues with the game. Overall, this game isn't even worth renting unless you like linear, unoriginal games that go nowhere and keep you there.

Where's the fun?

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

I had not played any LOR games and was disappointed with this one. I only played for about 30 minutes and found that I was forced to just follow the pre-determined path set by the developers. The game is really just 109 video clips from the movie, with a non-interesting path for you to follow to "unlock them". Someone called this Japanese RPG, I call it "10 year old RPG". If you are under 14 you'll love it. I would have given it 1 star, but I felt that the video clips were sort of fun. However, the Video clips don't even match the story! I wish I could return this game......

GREAT GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 28
Date: August 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is going to be the best LOTR game yet. You can play as both the good and bad guys to destroy the ring or conquer middle-earth. You should get this game as soon as it comes out!

repetitive and boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: November 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

sorry, this wont be a deep review. it doesn't deserve a minute more of my time. this game simply blows, it has no feel of tolkiens world or even peter Jackson's middle earth. game play is repetitive and boring. the graphics are no better than ea's other offerings and if you have them you are not seeing anything new. the "story" bored me in first 20 minutes. this game simply blows. rent it before thinking of buying.

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