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RPG? Must stand for "Really Pathetic Game"

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: October 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the biggest waste of time. You'd have to be a HUGE RPG fan to appreciate this game. You traipse around aimlessly with blocky Frodo, looking for mushrooms and a bunch of other crap. The graphics that everyone raves about are not that great. I mean, who cares if a bunch of leaves move when you walk through them? I certainly don't. Maybe I am really missing something but this game is just a disappointment and not even worth the rental fee.

Hobbit sized

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game has excellent gameplay, graphics, storyline it follow the book its an all around good game Right? Almost it has many good features but it also has a bad one it is small its very short.

alright, but not for everyone

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this is great game, but i havent beaten it yet. the controls are quite easy to learn, but the game can get very boring. its "do this, then do this", a game where u dont get to do much besides what they tell u to do. u have to do stupid missions(chores) in the shire, and the game can get really easy sometimes. but i like the game overall. gandalf is cool, so is aragorn, but i think if u want a really fun game, go get the two towers. that has the fellowship and the 2 towersin the game. if u like to do missions/chores and also to do some fighting, then u might like this game, but if u like to hack and slash while being able to follow the story line, get the 2 towers, as mentioned above.

FUN FUN FUN!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Yeah....I'm a huge fan of the movies Lord of the rings..so i went ahead and bought this game, even though i had never read the books. But i found this game very fun and informative about the books. I might just be a moron, but i've played this game for 3 hours and still haven't beat it yet, actually i'm only to the prancing pony. Not comparing to the book or movie, the game overall was very entertaining..ha..and i think that's the purpose of video games:)

Lacks Excitement

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I rented this game for a week. It follows the book closer than the movie, but the task and objectives in the game are boring and sometimes tedious.

Yet another licensed let down

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: April 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It's bad enough that Electronic Arts let me down so much with its license "Two Towers" game. The graphics were poor, considering the standards set by many graphical feats like Resident Evil, Silent Hill 3, and even the Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. The sound could have been better, and the game was very short, but was still fun to play. But to get a game based on the book that is such a tremendous let down? Good thing I got this game out of a bargain bin.
I will say that I personally feel that this games graphics were light years better than Two Towers, however, I prefer the artistic direction of the film and its licenses over the somewhat cheesy look of this video game. I must also comment that its hard for me to have to look at this games interpretations of the characters and not wish that Elijah Wood, and the other actors from the film were portraying these characters... but where this game is really going to get torn apart by me is its presentation of the story. As a long time fan of Lord of the Rings I am insulted by such a savage butchery of the story. I'm sorry but its true. Here's THE GAME that could have easily outshined the movie, it was licensed from the book, meaning they could have translated ever last detail of the novel to the book, but they didn't. The skipped past a lot of important events in the beginning, probably assuming that it would be too difficult to handle the big birthday bash... but you know what? A lot of RPG fans play for the story as well as the game play. Xenogears anyone? We sat through hours of text, and very few (that I know of) complained. This game had voice acting!
The game boasted that it would have all these intricate details (like Frodo beginning his quest on his birthday) that the movie forgot, how nice that they managed to forget a ton of important details themselves. The Council at Rivendale scene was so shorted and dumbed down it was pathetic. Its like the whole game was made just to toss Tom Bombadale out into the open... and even that was butchered. It seems to me that the experts working on the film trilogy did a much better job of making a visual interpretation of Tolkein's masterpiece than Vivindi Universal did.
Over I think I may like this game better than the Two Towers video game but only from the standpoint of being a fan of Action RPGs. On the other hand neither of the Lord of the Rings games light a candle to the book, or film that they are based on.
I sincerely hope that someday a developer will come a long who will take the license seriously, rather than just slapping a product together, slapping the popular label of Lord of the Rings on it and using it as an attempted cash cow. I am severely offended that the producers of this game spent so much time attacking the movies, yet managed to produce a product that is the biggest (...) job of a Lord of the Rings product since the cartoon Lord of the Rings from the 1970s. The movie did a much much better job. If you're a fan looking for a visual interpretation of the book, stick with the films. If I hadn't gotten this game out of a bargain bin I'd be really mad at myself for buying this game. Thankfully I paid so little for it that I might actually make a small profit were I to trade it in... But I won't because of its title.

Don't waste your money!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: October 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Seriously. Do yourself a huge favor, rent the game first, and then realize that it must be made by the same people who made the "Noah and the Ark" Nintendo game that my father gave me for Cristmas one sad, sad year.

XBox Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: November 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a great XBox game. I never got tired of playing this game , and I am about to beat it a third time. The Lord Of The Rings : The Fellowship Of The Ring is a great game that easily succeeds in having five stars.

This Game Rocks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: November 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have been waiting for five months for The Lord Of The Rings : The Fellowship Of The Ring to come out on the XBox. And now that it has I can only say that this game is brilliant. I highly recommend this great game to any one who read The Lord Of The Rings books by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Good

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is actually a good game for the XBox. It is the ultimate action/adventure game this year. I have beaten The Lord Of The Rings : The Fellowship Of The Ring only once. But now I am about to play it a second time. The graphics are amazing on this game. The storyline is very excellent also. I think this game deservse five stars.

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