LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™

zajebiste

i just love lego and im a big fan LOTR and THE HOBBIT, soooo why not play the games :D im very happy with them

Ranges from obvious signs where to go and what exactly to do, to head scratching moments of no help from the game and wondering around not having any idea what to do. Its LOTR so its good, its a silly compacted version of the movies and for people who like collectables and other extra content this game as that

Great classic lego game still to this day, i have completely finished the game without any issue except for a small mithril brick that took me a long time to get in mordor.

i like that you can explore all of middle earth

I (like most people born in the late 90s) have a big soft spot for the Lego games of the 6th and 7th gen. Fun and simple collectathon adventures with IPs that appeal to me. Lego Lord of the Rings has one of the better campaigns in a Lego game but does have some issues. The big two I ran into is the spoken audio sounds really compressed. It was just ripped out of the movies and that doesn't really work well here. The second issue though is much more annoying. Going for 100% in this game is a huge pain with all the tiny little bugs in the overworld. How are you gonna have jumping puzzles and not realize the collision boxes are gonna cause players to have to figure out workarounds to do the actual puzzle? How does a block getting moved cause it to shoot up into the sky? The main missions themselves are mostly bug free but once you get to exploring things slowly start to break. It's not happening all the time but enough to be an annoyance and bring this down to a 7/10 for me and lower than some of the other lego games. Still, I do enjoy it and its one of only a few Lord of the Ring games that lets you play through the whole trilogy. Oh and got the 100% achievements but 6 of them were bugged. 4 eventually popped over time and 2 I did have to pop manually. What I thought would be a breeze to 100% ended up being quite annoying.

I like the game and I would recommend it. We had a lot of good time with my son playing it. However, saying that, there are aspects that I absolutely hate about these games in terms of bugs and the number of quirks that you will encounter when playing it. Not seeing things that you should see when you're in local co-op because the camera is just working in such a way that things are impossible to see. Controls at times are playing really bad so you need to try to do things many times before actually getting it right, and it's not because of lack of experience or skill; it's because of bugs. Bugs that you can find when things do not trigger as they should and you need to restart the level. In essence, what I really like is the open map where you can explore the world and there is a lot of game in already. You have like two layers of the game: one layer is the open map where you can explore the world, and then the second layer where you have the missions, which is the essence of the game and the story. We really enjoy both, but the bugs take a lot out of it when you actually encounter them. We spent a little over 40 hours playing in local co-op with my son. Would recommend it, yes I would recommend it, but get ready to get really frustrated at times.