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Merely a Poor Console Conversion to make a buck

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: November 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

What the company did here is paid big bucks to get the movie name and rights to the characters, then no follow through. Not trusting the company is the reason for a demo. More demo's please. Recall the game, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"? Is was a beta for this game. Now they have better rendering on the characters, but they forgot to put color on the ground and walls. Everything is black. Super annoying. One player. "How do I get up there?" If you hate jumping games, you'll hate jumping games more that they don't finish making. Keyboard - Extra long jump Left-Ctrl key+direction key+jump key+you can't see because they didn't render the ground or the walls in act 2...it's black. Major design flaw (act1) with invisible barriers - If you push the butter churn to the fence near the hay stacks, standing on it to jump over, you can't jump back. You can physcially jump higher than the fence, but they never thought you'd do that and were using an invisible vertical barrier, so you couldn't get there in the first place. If you liked the book, don't purchase this game or you'll even find the book frustrating.

hated it!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 17
Date: April 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Perhaps it's because I had just finished "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" and was looking for more of the same...but I hated this game.

First I had to install and uninstall it three times to get it to work. That alone was terribly annoying. My system is NOT ancient, but this was ridiculous.

I will admit that I didn't get very far into it. I got immediately bored picking up jewels on the road. I disliked my character's movement. I disliked the environment and what you have to do to move ahead.

I'm not an expert gamer, but this was too much work for so little fun. If I have to sweat, sure would like some decent results.

My advice? Buy Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, instead.

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I think that this game had pretty good graphics, a great story, great aventure, and a good system of controls.

Great game to say the least

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game is awsome. I just bought it and in 2 days im in riddles in the dark. I am a huge hobbit fan and although they may have complicated some things it's fairly true to the book! all in all a great game

This little game is a whole lot of fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game for everyone! Lots to do, many places to go, items to gather, and powers to use. This game is worth far more that you pay for it. Buy it today!

patience makes perfect

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the first PC game I've bought for myself, usually I buy kiddie-level games for my 5-year old. Being an avid Tolkien fan, I thought it would be fun to try. In a word, I really enjoy this game a lot. It has a good mix of hack and slash plus puzzle-solving. But, let me warn you, there are times you have to die many dozens of times before figuring out how to get through, around, or just plain run away from some baddie. My daughter has watched me play and gets frustrated at me for dying so much, but I think it's a good lesson for her in patience when she sees me eventually figure it out.

Pretty Good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I think that the game is pretty good. The graphics are nice and it is entertaining. But I can't seem to figure out how to get past the bloody trolls. If someone could tell me how or where to get good cheat codes, it would really help out. But it is a pretty good game.

The Hobbit is Awesome!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It was really challenging to win it. Another great part was that it wasn't one of those games that you beat in a day and you really have to use your head to win it. I had a great time beating it. Also the levels are awesome because they are very creative and hard to figure out. It's an awesome game and I would recommend it to anybody that is a gamer.

Yuck!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: December 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Platform-specific comments:

The controls for the PC version of this game are extremely cumbersome.

If you must get this game, get it for gamecube or xbox.

Non-platform-specific comments:

The game is only very loosely based on the book.

There are no meaningful decisions in the game. Basically, every time one plays through the game, it will be pretty much the same. There's hardly any development or customization of the main character. Also, there is pretty much only one path through any given level. The player is not presented with choices but rather may as well go watch a movie.

Really great game, but Bilbo is treated unfairly

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Bilbo is treated really unfairly. I mean a hit from the skull dead dudes takes 2 life bubbles away, and a slime thing that the dead purple skeleton thing throws at you takes 3 lives away, and if you hit them it just takes a coulple of liquid from the blood. And you cannot hit them repeatedly or block an attack. And the rocks that you throw are like crap, it barely even hurts the enemy. Eveything has more blood than you and you don't get shields or anything. Really unfair, but other wise, the graphics are amazing! You cannot believe how something like this can work on your comptuer. It is fun to play too, sometimes.

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