LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™

Game is amazingly fun and sticks to the lore well

LEGO's take on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy manages to juggle the LEGO games' trademark slapstick comedy and being a faithful adaptation of the material, as well as innovating in ways that would come to define the way later LEGO games work. Our plot here, of course, concerns Frodo Baggins, a young hobbit who finds the legendary One Ring forged by the Dark Lord Sauron in ages past. It contains all his power, so Frodo, aided by a motley crue of hobbits, men, an elf, a dwarf, and a wizard, sets off on a massive quest to destroy the Ring in the one place it can be: the volcano where it was forged, deep in the heart of Sauron's territory. Obviously you know all about LOTR, it's one of the fundamental baselines for fantasy, and Jackson's adaptation of it remain one of the greatest trilogies ever put to film. LEGO's adaptation of it follows those films pretty closely, with a few expected tweaks here and there for the sake of the game. If you like LOTR, this game is a sweet and often quite funny riff on it. The basic gameplay is the same action-platforming stuff as had been seen in prior LEGO games. Up to two players roam through levels beating up baddies and solving puzzles, not to mention smashing up a fortune in plastic clicky-bricks. As ever there's a ton of post-game content to dive into as well, ranging from hitting 100% completion in the levels to roaming what remains as one of the coolest open-world depictions of Middle-Earth ever, with a fully explorable map that stretches from Bag End to the far corners of the ashen wastelands in Mordor. My only gripe with it is the voice acting, which has clearly been ripped from the films, but the editing is jarring and doesn't often feel like it fits (it, in a sense, kind of aurally hovers a foot away from the mouth, if that makes any sense). Still a worthy part of the LEGO franchise over a decade on!

2011 2012 even till now lego games are great!!

I like the tension and the levels My favourite character is Legolas

Das Spiel ist extrem verbuggt. Während die kleinen Bugs nicht so sehr stören, ist der letzte der schlimmste. Ihr kämpft im Schicksalsberg gegen Gollum. Dort müsst ihr ihn von eurem Rückenwerfen, was nur klappt, wenn ihr eeeeeeeeewig die entsprechende Taste drückt. Irgendwann habt ihr ihn auf ein Herz runter, dann müsst ihr ganz Legolike, etwas aufbauen, was aber nicht geht, weil die Teile dazu nicht liegenbleiben. Sie landen, und fliegen wieder los. Ihr könnt das Spiel nicht abschließen. Es ist nur diese eine Stelle. Wenn ihr das, was da gebaut werden muss, bauen könntet, wäre das Spiel zu Ende. Alles wäre geschafft. Aber nö. Ihr könnt das Spiel nicht abschließen. Es geht einfach nicht.