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Summary: Best movie tie-in game ever!!!
Review: Well, first of all this game is one of the best games I have ever played(Except for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,which I also recomend). All the other reveiwers that said that said you had to have aquired a 32mb video card and that it took two days to install. They obviously have a Windows 98 or 95, DUH!!! Anyway, this game has extremely good graphics, aside from the every-once-in-a while glich. The camera angles aren't bad once you've played it for a while.
Overall, I gave this game five stars because, the movie tie-ins leave you to feel like your driving the movie, I like hack & slash games, I am a major fan of LOTR, and you actually use strategy unlike The Two Towers. I recomend this game to the casual and die-hard gamer alike!!!! Klacktoo Verada Nickto!!
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Summary: OK But not Great
Review: The game is ok if you like hack and slash, with little to no character development and no chance to create your own character. The clips are ok, but the movie was better. Go see the movie, if that's what you want, but don't get the game just for the clips. The DVD will be out soon enough.
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Summary: Not so good 4 a LOTR game
Review: This game has its good and bad points...
GOOD
-Very good and clear graphics
-Has co-op mode
BAD
-Frustratingly DIFFICULT!
-Extremely LONG cutscenes!
-Lousy camera angles!I expected this could be better than The Two Towers but it stayed as lousy as that EXCEPT that Return of the King is far more difficult. I'm WARNING U...THINK TWICE B4 BUYING THIS GAME!
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Summary: NEATO TORPEDO!
Review: If you have the juice to run this game, you'll be stunned by the graphics and sound. It's like a super-crispy high-res version of the film! The gameplay is just like that of EA's Two Towers game, which is to say it's a heavily tweaked, 3D version of the Sega oldie, "Golden Axe." You won't get through it the first time, which is a GOOD THING in my opinion. If you think it's too hard, there are "trainers" and cheat codes to help you through, but I prefer the difficultly right where it is, like a classic arcade game.
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Summary: this is awesome
Review: Buy it. Now. I don't care what the other people say. Ima showem, Ima showem. No one crisp as me. I'm a game ninja. I completed it in oh, say, 2 hours. Quite easy. I seriously reccomend this game to anyone with an IQ above 27.
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Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!!
Review: I won't get into a battle with words here. Let me kep it simple. PC GAMER magazine gave this game a rating of 58% out of 100%. That is bad!!!
Let me quote some lines from their review in the January 2004 issue.
" Frustrating camera controls, not enough diversity in character play styles, disappointing failure, stupidly difficult"
Need anyone say anything more? Don't listen to the reviews that gave this high marks. They are LOTR extremists - the same guys that go to Star Trek conventions all dressed up like Kirk or Picard!!! First of all, most of the guys that gave this game 5 stars wrote reviews before the game was even released!!!! Second, most of them admit they have not even played the game!!! They just love LOTR. Ok..so do I, but don't go suckering some people into blowing their hard earned dollars... Are the graphics good in this game...YES. They are truly outstanding and unbelievable!! That is all the nice things I have to say about this game. The game play is terrible. You have to fight in 360 degrees which means that the enemies are between you and your guy. You cannot even see what your doing!!! Oh by the way, you cannot quick save. You can only save at the end of the level! Generally this is fine by me, but since this game is so hard and camera angles constantly make your life miserable....you absolutely need to be able to Quick Save!!!! THE ABSOLUTE WORST THING OF ALL - THE CUT-SCENES!!!!!!
ELECTRONIC ARTS force you to watch all the cut-scenes. NO SKIPPING THEM!!!! And some of them are over 5 minutes long! Here is how the game starts - You have to go through all the production credits from EA Games, among others...get through the horrible THX ear blowing intro and about 3 other stupid intros...then the first cut scene happens - this one alone is about 5 minutes of scenes from the last movie. Then you get dumped into the game in the ehat of battle. Talk about confusing as all heck! Guess what...if you screw up the game or just want to start over...you have to sit through the credits and all of the games cut scenes all over again!!!!!! NO CHOICE!!!!!!!! Thanks a lot EA GAMES!!! You milked the MOH franchise to death and ruined what could have been great and now you are just out to milk money from the LOTR saga. I played this game through all the way. I normally would want to play a game all over again. Not this time!!!!!!! Borrow a copy from a friend or at the very least, download them demo and try it out before you buy!!!!!!!!!! Hey if you don't believe me...read the comments in some of the LOTR game forums out there! MANY, MANY other people that own this game will agree with me 100%!!! Send EAGAMES a message, send them some e-mail and tell them to allow skipping past cut scenes, send them a message and skip this game. Trust me, your money is better spent else where... Get Halo, GTA:Vice City, Medal of Honor, or BloodRayne which is a blast and sells for less.
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Summary: waste of money.... stupid EA games
Review: Spent 40 dollars on this game. Get it home, wait a HALF AN HOUR for it to install itself... only to get an error message. Even though on the back of the box, it said you should have a 32 MB graphics card, which I have, it turns out my card isn't good enough, and the jerks at EA games want me to shell out a hundred bucks for a new one. Would have been nice if they warned me BEFORE I spent all the time and money on it. To be fair, there were some types of cards listed below the 32 meg requirement, but I figured they were just examples, and the 32 meg was what mattered. STUPID EA GAMES! DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY ON THIS GARBAGE! EVEN IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE A PRETTY DESCENT COMPUTER, THERE IS A GOOD POSSABILITY THIS TRASH WON'T WORK! thank you.
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Summary: Great movie tie-in, but VERY difficult and hard to control
Review: I'd think twice about getting this one for younger kids (unless they're game ninjas) due to its high difficulty. Though I can ususally tear right through games on normal difficulty, I was quickly humbled by this one and soon found myself struggling even on the Easy setting. The game requires proficiency with combo moves that quickly take down enemies, but these are very difficult to execute on the PC. In the later stages of the game you have to know button combos AND have the correct strategy to beat the levels. We're way past button mashing here, even on Easy. I think EA has serioulsy limited it's playership by not including an easier difficulty setting. Along with difficult controls, the camera angles can be incredibly confusing. Often you can be holding a key down to go one direction but when the camera view shifts you're suddenly running the opposite direction while holding the same key. So you then have to extrapolate which way to go based on a screen you're seeing for the first time. Confusing? Oh yeah. Plus many of the camera agles are too low--like ankle level. I suspect the programmers were more concerned with showing off their stunning environments than with game play. I was constantly "willing" the camera up to a three quarter view so I could see what was going on (unfortunately, there is no "willing" key). So with all these problems why would I still recommend it? Because it ties into the movie so beautifully. This IS the way games based on movies should be done (albeit without the above mentioned flaws). The game paintakingly transforms from full res movie footage, to polygonal game cinematic, to actual player control. This required Electronic Arts to rebuild complex scenes from the movie in lower polygon game graphics--a whole lot of effort for a two second transition. But the result is a very immersive "you're playing the movie" gaming experience. EA gets playful with these transformations, sometimes faking you out that your suddenly controlling the characters you were just watching on film. I've played plenty of movie games, but none that attempted anything like this. So for breaking new ground I say this game's worth it. I just hope other developers take note, keep what works and fix the control issues for future movie-based games.
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Summary: The idea is good, but...
Review: Just to set it straight, I've only played the demo of this game. The character animations seemed good, but even on a relatively high end system (2.66 ghz, 512 MB, 64 MB mobile Athalon Radeon) I had a bit of choppiness. The fighting was good and relatively seamless. My biggest problem is the controls. Like the other reviewers said, it looks as if this game was originally made for a console and then converted to pc. While this could work, the controls are impossible. The point of view they chose, which is much like the view in Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast when the lightsaber is used, would work if, like Jedi, there was a crosshair to point and attack with. However, they chose to model the controls after a console game controller. By this, I mean that in order to attack something on top of the screen from you, you have to push "w," to attack something below, you push "d," and so forth. The mouse does no good in aiming, rather it interferes because to move it side to side changes the direction you face. All in all, I don't think I could play the game because the controls are so difficult.
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Summary: FRUSTRATED
Review: I was really looking forward to this game, and it has some great features, but also some disappointments. I enjoyed playing the different characters, plus the music and graphics are great. You get to play six different characters. If you complete the game, you can unlock three more hidden characters. The actual actors from the movies did the voices and it adds to the enjoyment of the game. There are also interviews with some of the actors and other extras that you can access as you conquer different levels.
I have a new computer with the latest video and sound cards, so I have had no problems with installation or the game freezing up. On the other hand, like other reviewers have pointed out, controlling the characters is awkward with the pc version. Perhaps that is why it is way too hard to win some of the levels. I finally gave up and gave the game to my son to play. He's an expert, but even he has struggled to win the entire game, and he doesn't like the controls for the pc either.
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