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• Games: Video Games: Action-Adventure: Lord of the Rings Series, The: Reviews and Previews  (0)

The Armchair Empire - - "Big-time Tolkien fans that can tolerate the generally poor gameplay features in order to get a interactive romp through Middle-earth may want to give LotR a rental, but absolutely don't consider this for a gaming buy unless it can be had around the holidays for under 20 bucks." Review by Lee Cieniawa with overall score [5.1/10] and screenshots.

Cincinnati.Com - - "The game suffers from some repetitive missions with a lot of "fetch this and find that," plus many of the camera angles are finicky." Review by Marc Saltzman with screen shots and score [4.5/5].

ign.com - - "Did I have high expectations for the game? Sure, but even if you were to strip the license away, the games lack of focus, sub-par AI, and unbalanced gameplay make the game mediocre at best." Review by Kaiser Hwang with overall score [6.7] and screen shots.

TechTV - - "The heavily flawed combat drags this title down to a great degree, effectively making about half the game into more a chore than anything else." Review by Matt Keil with screen shots and overall rating [3/5].

GameOver - - "There is an initial rush and glimpse of Tolkien's novel in the early going. The ensuing action lacks punch and never arcs to a point to make any of the combat substantial." Review by Fwiffo with overall rating [60%] and screen shots. (December 2, 2002)

GameSpot - - "The Fellowship of the Ring is ultimately an average game at its best and a frustrating and boring one at its worst." Review by Brad Shoemaker with score [5.5] and screen shots. (October 23, 2002)

PlanetXbox - - "The die-hard Tolkien will get a kick out of slugging and spell-casting their way through the first book of the Rings trilogy, but the casual gamer will only be disappointed by an otherwise generic action / adventure title." Review by Steve Steinberg with score [68] and screen shots. (October 20, 2002)

The Electric Playground - - "The game is also pretty short--somewhere in the neighborhood of 8-12 hours to finish, and your desire to replay it will likely be minimal." Review by Bonnie. (October 8, 2002)

GameZone.com - - "For gameplayers, linear is not good. Though a game sports a variety of puzzles, they should change up a bit for the sake of diversity, something that this game doesn't appear able to do. The enemy AI is suspect." Review by Michael Lafferty with overall score [8.0] and screen shots. (October 8, 2002)