From Hobbiton to Mirkwood,this game is really fun. The graphics are great,the music is great, and the quests are outstanding. However, the game doesn't follow the story all the time. The wepons you get are Sting,Stick, and rocks. The enviroments are amazing.

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I love this game. the only problems are that you can only save at specific points, and those points are not well placed. for instance, when you are fighting the spiders, when you get to the only save point, there is a giant spider about to kill you. also, the cutscenes get annoying after a while, and there are only 2 or 3 that you can skip. it takes a while to get used to fighting, but once you do, you can get past anything. what i really didn't like, though, was that the Ring has a meter, and once the meter runs out, you have to take the Ring off and wait for it to charge. when you are in the elven palace, it gets really annoying. overall, it is an awesome game, and i highly reccomend it.

What the company did here is paid big bucks to get the movie name and rights to the characters, then no follow through. Not trusting the company is the reason for a demo. More demo's please. Recall the game, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"? Is was a beta for this game. Now they have better rendering on the characters, but they forgot to put color on the ground and walls. Everything is black. Super annoying. One player. "How do I get up there?" If you hate jumping games, you'll hate jumping games more that they don't finish making. Keyboard - Extra long jump Left-Ctrl key+direction key+jump key+you can't see because they didn't render the ground or the walls in act 2...it's black. Major design flaw (act1) with invisible barriers - If you push the butter churn to the fence near the hay stacks, standing on it to jump over, you can't jump back. You can physcially jump higher than the fence, but they never thought you'd do that and were using an invisible vertical barrier, so you couldn't get there in the first place. If you liked the book, don't purchase this game or you'll even find the book frustrating.

I've been playing this game with my six-year-old son. He loves it. He does need a little help sometimes. First, some of the puzzles are impossible for a child to figure out (and even adults, if you're not an experienced gamer.) Second, it can be difficult to know what to do at each level to get through it. What I did was to search the Web for a "walkthrough" -- a step-by-step guide for playing the game. Cheating? Maybe, but my son enjoys it more this way -- we get to be able to finish the game, and he can concentrate on the parts he can do well.

WOW! I am in no way a big PC game person. I prefer to play solitaire or go on cartoonnetwork.com. But when my younger brothers brought this home, I was definitely intrigued by the things you had to do in the game.

As soon as I got to play it, I was immediatly hooked. As an amateur, my brothers had to help me at several points, but I was able to figure most of it out on my own. I'm not a Tolkein freak, I just enjoyed the movies, so I can't complain about the storyline, because there definitely is one in this game. There is no bad language nor is there blood, which was a plus for me, as I am a female and I just don't enjoy those things. Of course you have to defeat villians, but it's not gross.

The graphics are awesome, too. There are excellent details and lots of movement. The look and feel of the levels all vary thus far, which makes it so the game doesn't get boring.

I highly recommend this game to anyone- even if you don't like PC games.