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Summary: Master Frodo hit me with a stick and it hurt. A lot.
Review: This game is great as far as dialogue and story is concerned(J. R. R. Tolkien wrote the story) and the acting isn't that bad. I have noticed serveral VO's from cartoons I watched as a kid, the cute lady hobbit(with the cutezy voice) in the Shire for one. Gandalf for another. I think most of these people were in The Gary Colman show and the smurfs or some such. Gandalf was the Snow guy from the Thundercats I think. The thing that annoys me is that even with the patch, EAX is horrid and non functional. If you are going to play a graphic adventure at least include decent EAX. Even an Audigy 2 doesn't work. That and the popping even when EAX is disabled is the sole reason I am cutting 2 stars off this bugged travesty of an otherwise good game.I like hitting my witless side-kicks with a stick and stone.:)=)
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Summary: Complete and utter crap
Review: I had high hopes for the whole LOTR Enterprise. Being a fan of the books for many years, I have high expectations for the films. I was hoping the the games would be a bit more than a hack & slash action game, there is no element of adventure in this game at all. Lord of the Rings game should always be a bit more involving than this load of total waste of hard drive space. This game is an complete insult to the whole Tolkien Enterprise. If you've bought this, wrap it up, send it to Vivendi expressing how crap you think it is. The control system is a joke, the gfx are ok, the gameplay element is non-existent, some of the bosses are easy, some of them are impossible. I've not bought the other games yet, but they had better be an improvement on this or I'll be sending a strongly worded letter to the game creators...
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Summary: Big Blow
Review: I've had LOR:The Fellowship of the Ring for PC since last Christmas and it blows.I was really disapointed. The gameplay was weak and there was little action till you got to Moria and even then it was weak. If you like fist pumping action I do not recommend this. The Two Towers is way better. I also forgot to mention it is based on the book, not movie.
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Summary: a 14 yr old
Review: i figured hey, its lord of the rings it cant be that bad. i was almost right. bad things are it takes a video card (which isnt all that cutting edge anymore) but still cost about $100. and with that video card the graphs. are still very choppy and not that good. also, although im not a very good gamer i think they should make it easy enough to get past the ringwraiths in hobbiton. but from what i did play it was ok.
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Summary: A very good play
Review: After reading the Fellowship book and seeing the movie I, of course, I had to get the game. Being a Lord of the Rings fanatic, this was a must-have for my collection. The game has its good and bad sides but overall I was very much pleased with this game. First of all, the graphics were amazing and splended. I would say that the high qaulity animation scenes were better than many of the Playstation2 graphics that I have scenes. Many of the battle sequences were rather slow and fuzzy, but the qaulity was still at a B average. When I first read the box I assumed by the description that you could use any of the playable characters (Frodo, Aragorn, and Gandalf) at any time. However I was rather dissapointed to find out that you can only use the characters at certain times. When you play Frodo you have several advantages on your side, being that Frodo is usualy played on the realitivly easy levels to beat. However when you have to escape the Nazgul, that did present a hard challenge which took me an hour and a half to get pass. Frodo's main weapon(s) were (as you advance) The Ring, Rocks and Sticks, Barrow Blade, and then Sting. He wasn't my favorite character to play, but I did enjoy throwing stones at the Nazgul and them not finding me due to Frodo's handy sneak action. The next character you play is Aragorn. He was my favorite character to play because he has many different uses and is played a lot more than Frodo and Gandalf. Natrually, his specialty is sword play, but he is also pretty good with using a bow and arrow. The bad thing about Aragorn is that his stealth isn't all that and a bag of chips. You have to get used to (and it takes a while) to his controls and the way he moves. Very shortly after you first start using Aragorn, you will have to battle all nine of the Nazgul at once durring the level at Weather Top. This part I found was very hard. It took me forever to finialy get past that round when all you are armed with is a tourch. Still Aragorn is (in my opinoin) one of the better characters. Finialy, there is Gandalf. He wasn't my favorite character to play either, but he has a lot more attacks than Frodo and much more stealth than Aragorn so in genral he is concidered the most powerful. Yet the bad thing is when you cast spells, many of them require that you reflect the magic from his staff to the Orc(or whatever he is fighting at the moment) and then click to enable the magic and getting the correct aim is very hard, and I eventually said 'the heck with it' and killed them with his sword. Gandalf's sword isn't very good either you have to play the game for a while to pull up the level of his sword. Also you played Gandalf the least and of course, he is killed in Moria. The music of the game was also very good. It was not the same tunes from the movie which was a very good change and the music would fit the atmosphere of the level. And when you were in a tight situation (or suspensful) there would be no music to keep the suspense up (that is not a fault of the game) Overall, the game is way too short and you get past each level very quickly. One dissapointment was that the Lothlorien stage was almost the shortest in the game (next to the Barrow Downs) and it dosen't take the time to go over all of what happened when the Fellowship entered the realm of Galadriel. Being my favorite part of the book and movie I was rather dissapointed. The game IS based mainly off of the novel version of the Fellowship of the Ring so you meet several characters that were not mentioned in the movie like Tom Bombadil, and Glorofindel. I did like the use of Boromir's arrogant attitude in the game which was very much like the one of the novels. Overall, The Fellowship of the Ring PC Game was very good and I enjoyed it a lot. Although it dose have it's downs it has its ups. So any Lord of the Rings fan will not be dissapointed with this game.
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Summary: Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring
Review: I think this game is pretty cool overall. First off, the bads. The water is sometimes there and sometimes not. You can't be Legolas or Gimli. The faces and bodies of the characters look weird. Gandalf sucks with his sword when you first get him. The game is way too short. Now for the goods. The weapons are pretty cool and the orcs, Uruk-hai, and trolls are cool too. The graphics aren't bad at all. You get to fight trolls, orcs, Uruk-hai, a barrow-wight, a Balrog, the Nazgul (Black Riders), Men, spiders, wolves, and wargs in a bunch of different environments that are pretty detailed.
The bosses in this game are sometimes easy, sometimes really tough. The only real big problem with this game is that it is too short. Overall the Fellowship is a pretty good game.
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Summary: NO GOOD!!!!
Review: THIS GAME LOCKS UP--ALWAYS!! I HAVE TRIED TO GET HELP TO MAKE IT PLAY CORRECTLY BUT NO ONE SEEMED INTERESTED IN HELPING ME! IT MIGHT BE A GOOD GAME IF IT WORKED BUT IT DOES NOT!!
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Summary: cool graphics crummy game
Review: this game has really cool graphics but it always freezes at a certain point and you have to start over unless you saved it. i really wish i had read the reviews before i bought it.
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Summary: Let's Be Fair
Review: "Surrender the ring!" That's the last thing I heard as I packed it away. This was a super deal. The $50 cost, a year later was down to $10, and a $10 rebate = free. Here we have to be cautous (you get what you pay for). It reminded me of a pre-UT, and even a pre-Fallen. Serious Sam runs smoother. Giants: Citizen Kabuto is better and not for the reaons you'd think. The technology is at least 3 years old. It is Tomb Raider without the action. It is a chess like Baldur's Gate w/out the pause button. They should have let the Black Isle Studio's people handle this (reference Neverwinter Nights). Why do they have to mess up some of the best opportunities? I'm sure there was a struggle for the rights to the game after the movie. I heard at the last minute they pulled this from the company Sierra (One of the top 3 gaming companies) and gave it to Surreal. I'm thinking they went low ball all the way, but I have a bias. I like Tolken. I enjoy good games. What's wrong w/me? :) This is a 1st person or Doom-style game. I've tried out a couple 3-D engines. I want to give this 3 stars just because it is Tolken Enterpises, but I have to be fair. I wouldn't recommend it. Again, it is a crying shame too. Maybe after you re-assign the buttons, take the default inverted Y-axis movement off, and have a couple beers it will get better. But, I can still see straight. Errors in installing as well. I just heard something! What was that? Oh, Tolken just rolled over in his grave. Okay, if you want to sit through a Nintendo-style "get the thing", "see the person", and hit an invisible wall as you walk through a field because the programmers didn't have time to figure that part out . . . 2 stars. For the rest of us, go read the book to your kids. You'll get more out of it.
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Summary: THIS GAME WAS AMAZING
Review: The 3rd person view and list of diferent characatures makes this a kick ass game. I got a snowday from school the day after I bought it and beat the whole game then. Buy it!
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