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| Game Details | Released
05 November 2004 | | Format
PS2, XBox, GameBoy Advance, Nintendo DS | | Developer
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The Lord Of The Rings: The Third Age
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While fans of the frenetic action in Peter Jackson’s trilogy were happily twatting
Orcs in last year’s console spin-off, Rings aficionados were miffed that Tolkien’s epic
had been reduced to a hack ’n’ slasher.
Thankfully, things are a little different this time.
A traditional roleplaying game in the Final Fantasy mould, The Third Age sees players commanding a group of warriors as they cross Middle-earth, slaughtering monsters in turn-based battles, solving puzzles and evolving their heroes from rookie fighters into Balrog-bashing bad boys.
The game follows a new gang of heroes, including a human citadel guard, a moody ranger and the obligatory sexy Elf. However, players
will find themselves crossing paths with Frodo’s mob at several points during the quest; when exploring the mines of Moria, for example, you’ll hear Gandalf scolding Pippin for knocking the armour down the shaft.
All the locations from the movies have been recreated in loving detail — as have all the Wargs, Trolls and Nazgűl you’d expect to meet on your travels — but as this latest Rings effort is still more focused on combat than exploration and puzzle-solving, it loses that fifth star.
Reviewer: David McComb
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Average user rating for The Lord Of The Rings: The Third Age
| This 4 stars and Return of the King only 3 stars? | | | How can you give a higher mark to this game than you did for Return of the King?
The graphics are and nice and the music is great but the game is far to linear to be an RPG, it offers virtually no sidequests, no exploration and whilst the basic concept of turn based random battles is fine, that's basically all it is from start to finish - it's mind numbingly repetetive!
Return of the King tries to be a hack and slash game, nothing more, and it succeds admirably with its fine visuals and solid... Read More
| | | jomo999 About me | | 03:10, 08 March 2008 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: I HATE THIS | | Well it is a pretty hard game through and through really. I dont remember the Witch King in all honesty though. ... Read More
| | | Daniel Kelly About me | | 13:35, 10 February 2007 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: I HATE THIS | | took me ages 2 kill the witch king in the pellanor fields.i thought he was hard ... Read More
| | | dr_finklestein About me | | 18:31, 06 February 2007 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: I HATE THIS | | It's that one level at Helm's Deep with the 3 Uruks (which respawn, so basically there are 6) and the Cave Troll. That's the hardest level. ... Read More
| | | AgentGoth About me | | 18:12, 06 February 2007 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: I HATE THIS | | | the balrog is easy, mumaks are hard ... Read More
| | | dr_finklestein About me | | 08:58, 05 February 2007 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: I HATE THIS | | L: AgentGoth
When you're actually playing as the Balrog, it's so easy to defeat everybody. Made me wonder how we actually managed to defeat it during the gameplay.ote] ]
Took me an age to beat it if I remember rightly though.....well 2 or 3 days anyway ... Read More
| | | Daniel Kelly About me | | 13:08, 04 February 2007 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: I HATE THIS | | | a dacent game but the way you learn moves is a begining of suicidal tendances
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| | | dr_finklestein About me | | 20:01, 02 February 2007 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: I HATE THIS | | When you're actually playing as the Balrog, it's so easy to defeat everybody. Made me wonder how we actually managed to defeat it during the gameplay. ... Read More
| | | AgentGoth About me | | 18:24, 16 June 2006 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: I HATE THIS | | I was dissapointed by those but fighting against the Balrog is pretty fun ... Read More
| | | Daniel Kelly About me | | 17:28, 16 June 2006 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: I HATE THIS | | I just want to play as the Balrog again. I think that was the only reason we carried on playing, just so we could unlock the dark missions. ... Read More
| | | AgentGoth About me | | 08:22, 16 June 2006 | Report This Post | |
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