The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age

THE GOOD:
Unique perspective in Tolkien's world
Decent skill system
Ability to go back to previous chapters

THE BAD:
Disappointing Evil Mode
Too reliant on the movies (use more of the books!)

SUMMARY:
EA games comes out with an other RPG adventure based on the Lord of the Rings movies. Notice how I say movies and not books. This is not a bad attempt, but it certainly could be better.

Graphics: I like how different equipment will show up on your character during battles, walking around, and in various cut scenes. Some of the spells are cool and others (especially light and shadowcrafting) are forgetable. The fellowship looks like their movie counterparts. I don't like how the scenary changes abrubtly throughout the game (3.5/5.0)

Gameplay: Battles are random and turn based which I'm used to having considering I'm a big fan of the GBA Golden Sun series. But those of you who like Gauntlet will probably find this a...

THE GOOD:
Don't go there girlfriend!

THE BAD:
A lot. Just read the review.

SUMMARY:
Oh man, this is the worst Lord of the Rings game to grace Middle Earth, Our Earth, and maybe even another Earth! Worst of all is that EA made this game. How could they give us such utter crap!? This game has no characterization, no plot, no originality, changes the LoTR parts!

The "Story" begins with you playing Berethor who is a guard of the Citidal. The game says he was sent by Denethor to look for Boromir but they don't say why. Denethor sent Boromir to Rivendell for the council meeting about the ring, why would he send some guard after him? Berethor gets attacked by two Ring Wraiths who should be after Frodo. Berethor can't fight however and gets owned but he is suddenly saved by a large nosed elf chick with summon skills. Now I can't remember why she saves you but they won't go into detail why she does, you suddenly have her in your party....