The plot largely follows the original trilogy, but reimagines and parodies the iconic fantasy saga. Together with the main characters will have to make a journey to destroy the magical ring of Sauron. In order to do so, the hobbit Frodo will have to leave the house. Each character has his own unique skills and characteristics. Multiplayer allows you to team up with friends or players from around the world. Everything is working, it's installed and ready to go, I run the Autorun file and click play and it says i have to install the play disc?
Maj Lue 4 points. Virago 0 point. Black screen on launch with windows Didn't find a way to bypass the problem. Any clue? Cat 1 point. Got it to work but only in english. Why there is no german option when selecting the language in the installation window.
Can someone help? Pestek -1 point. Hey, I need help. Gandalf 0 point. Strider 3 points. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information. My blisters burn at the memory. Adding to the chaos: The game doles out just enough health to keep you a few steps from death at all times--and then only if you rely on combo attacks and blocking moves rather than random button hammering.
It makes for a white-knuckle experience that can also lead to hairpulling frustration in a few levels that suffer from unclear objectives. Let me save you from some pain right now: If you get stuck during the siege of Minis Tirith, try using Gandalf's long-range magic attack. Trust me on this. While players will limp away from Return of the King with carpal-tunnel pain, they at least won't have much of the new movie spoiled.
The game actually contains little footage from the flick, although the environments themselves are modeled after the movie's locales. In fact, a few plot points and bosses will be lost on players who haven't read the books.
But the whole thing still hangs together as a high-gloss experience that'll make your Middle-earth move. Return of the King does a fantastic job of putting you into the world of the movie through its graphically stunning reproductions of the film's war-torn sets, smooth transitions from thrilling cinema clips into exciting gameplay, top-notch voice work by the trilogy's actors, and music drawn from the flick's epic soundtrack.
Once you the game, that's it: You've entered Middle-earth, or at least the one from the movie. Granted, that all was true of last year's Two Towers, too. So, what's changed? Return of the King's gameplay has much more variety because the Hobbits Sam and Frodo , the warriors Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas , and Gandalf all play distinctly different. You'd think that nothing could possibly compare to cleaving through almost Galaga-like droves of ores as Aragorn, but blasting them with Gandalf's magic staff and outwitting them using small-fry Sam's stealth and cunning is surprisingly just as much fun.
Each of the three group's stages are also dissimilar enough that--once you've beaten the game and gained the ability to play through levels as any character--you'll want to go back and see how, say, Aragorn fares defending the walls of Minas Tirith or how well Gandalf holds up at the Black Gate of Mordor. Does Return of the King have an Achilles' heel?
Sure: It's too frigging hard. The game can make you more irate than exhilarated on many stages, but its multiple unlockable features, co-op mode, and online gameplay for PS2, anyway make up for a lot of the frustration. At the danger of sounding like a broken record preferably a warped old 45 of Leonard Nimoy's 'Ballad of Bilbo Baggins' , I must admit that I agree with my fellow reviewers on just about all their points regarding Return of the King.
It bests last year's Two Towers game by adding more playable characters, a wider variety of level types, and much-needed two-player co-op action. Like the previous game, King offers an audiovisual orgy of Middle-earth splendors that accurately re-creates the film which, in turn, perfectly adapted the original books with terrifying reverence.
Massive armies battle in the background, siege weapons obliterate fortress walls, and Gollum's loincloth ripples tastefully in the breeze--videogames rarely look this polished and solid. Also, just as in last year's model, a bevy of impressive bonus features see Small Wonders on the previous page adds even more pizazz to the slick package, plus makes a make fine reward for plowing through those legions of ores.
Honestly, the gameplay doesn't quite live up to the presentation's absurd heights of grandeur, but, realistically, it's tough for a hack-n-slash game to offer voluminous depth. Light role-playing elements allow you to customize your characters' moves, upgrade your equipment, and increase your HP, but underneath it all, you're kinda playing Double Dragon with extra emphasis on the Dragon. Expect to plow through the entire multipath adventure in a weekend.
But oh, what a weekend it is. Well, we guess there must be one of you out there. Sword control is now on the right analog stick, and now you can swing on ropes, jump over gaps, kick boulders, throw objects, etc. Finally, as if that wasn't enough, we've added two-player co-op play. Criminey, Atari should have made Gauntlet LOTR characters to begin with--the cast is perfect for it warriors, magicians, even a dreamboat elf-boy, Legolas.
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