The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age

THE GOOD:
At least the battle system isn't done wrongly; the way to gain new skills, while it feels ripped off from another game (can't recall the name), is at least different from leveling up to get new skills; visuals are bloody amazing and so detailed; soundtrack, while being recycled from the movies, is basically an eargasm.

THE BAD:
Rips off Final Fantasy X's battle system; literally no character development; in fact, literally no story except "save such and such"; hardly any of the original Lord Of The Rings characters make a decent appearance (oh, just one or three fights? OH JOY!); doesn't even have the basic RPG elements (currecy, town) aside from battling; needs more hobbits; drab, monotomous voice acting; lacks FMVs; and let's be honest, this doesn't even feel like an RPG, so why EA marketed this as one is beyond me... Oh, and extras are pointless filler.

SUMMARY:
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Story/Concept
EA Games really slacked off in this department. Rather than start another game that simply followed the quest of the Fellowship, EA came up with a new idea: Lord of the Rings JV Squad. This game features six characters including Berethor the Gondorian, Idrial the Elf, Elegost the Ranger, Hadhod the Dwarf, and others. The latter two, Elegost and Hadhod, bear strange likeness to the household favorite ranger, Aragorn, and the dwarf of the fellowship, Gimli, respectively. Gandalf steers you through the entire plot of the game. Players see much of the movies through cut-scenes called "Epic Scenes." There are 109 of these available, but if you've seen the movie plenty of times these become quite old after a while.

So the first question one should ask himself when playing this game is why didn't Gandalf introduce his apparently not-so-cool friends in the movie? This JV Squad (as I...

THE GOOD:
The good is that it's the original voice-act from the "known characters", over half a million different weapons, the (FFX) battlesystem and that it has good graphics.

THE BAD:
The only bad thing is that it's short!
I finished the game in three days, with 99%.

SUMMARY:
Well, I love RPG-games, so when LOTR;TTA came out I bought it right a way.
And I loved the game, until i finished it.
After you finish it, it has NO replay value AT ALL!!!
Sure you can level up, but there's no point.
And it is impossible to get 100%, 'cause you can't save at the end of the game.
Nontheless, I do think the game is really good.
I would recomend to rent it, not buy it, unless you are a BIG LOTR-fan like me.
But a really cool thing is that you can be for excample...