Customer Reviews

The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (DVD-ROM)

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The game follows the plot of the Lord of The Rings: Return of the King, where you can follow the plot line of Gandalf, who starts off fighting his way through Orcs to Isengard, Frodo and Sam as they escape from Osgilliath, or as Aragorn, Legolas or Gimili as they run through the Paths of the Dead.

True to the films, all the charachters fight with differnt weapons and have slightly different abilities.

The control for the game (I play without a controller on PC) was a little much for just a mouse, but after a few tries it gets pretty easy.

Moving though the game can be a little difficult. You can only save a checkpoints, for most of the game its pretty much just a hack and slash. Albeit it was a very beautifully rendered with excellent sound and voices (done by the film actors), its still remains a pretty standard hack and slash.

I found the game a little absurdly hard. Just when you think you are done with a level, it just continues, and you kill more things that you think are possible. Also it seems that the spawn points for bad guys dont really go dry. So, for me at least, progress was kind of slow.

The only real saving grace is that included with the game, are some behind the scenes stuff, little movies etc, which are unlocked as you move higher in the tree.

I think this game is a overall awesome game.The only bad thigs about this game is that when start a level you have to wait about 3 minutes for the cutscene to end. I was playing 2player with a friend and on last level with frodo and sam when you launch the missle at the tower and "try" to go over the bridge 1 person goes over unschythed but the other one falls of when the bridge breaks.

It's a solid game... gameplay is difficult, but not impossible or so tough it's not fun.