Simply working your way through the plot of all three movies will take you a good eight to 10 hours or so, but as in any Lego game completing the levels once is only the start. You’ll be complaining about the elves at Helm’s Deep next… After Mount Doom We could grumble that the camera view can make some jumps difficult, or that a handful of boss battles see you running out of bricks too fast, but these are really minor faults. It’s best enjoyed in the two-player, drop-in, drop-out split screen, and anyone who’s played a Lego game with kids will tell you that this is one of the best family games around, but it’s still just as engaging if you’re left playing it on your own for an hour or two. Lego The Lord of the Rings is always fun to play and a fan’s delight. There are satisfying, massive-scale Lego scraps at Helms Deep and Pellinor Fields, some brilliant cross-cutting sequences that flit between different heroes caught up in different situations, and it’s hard to think of a great moment from the movies that isn’t covered. For example, climbing the steps of Minas Morgul might involve Frodo using his elven light to light dark spaces so that Gollum can climb up a wall and push down some Lego rocks, which shatter so that Sam can build a ladder so that he and Frodo can make it up to the next ledge.īy the time you’ve hit the events of The Two Towers the game has hit its stride, and there are sequences featuring Legolas and Gimli – in this game, almost everyone can toss a dwarf – that will have you scratching your head before you chuckle and work out the solution.
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The gameplay isn’t a huge departure from previous Lego adaptations, with each level basically a series of obstacles that you can only get around by combining the abilities of your heroes.
If you know and love the films then you’ll love what’s been done with the material. There was some grumbling when Lego Batman 2 appeared with spoken dialogue that the wit of the Lego games was in the speechless mugging, but Lego The Lord of the Rings uses the earnest dialogue and sweeping soundtrack as a foil for all kinds of silly japes, whether Gollum’s gleeful so long to Sam on the steps above Minas Morgul or the brilliantly orchestrated horsemanship when Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli meet the Riders of Rohan. It’s almost needless to say that Lego The Lord of the Rings is funny. Throw in the original score and the original dialogue, and you have a game that for all its madcap wreck-and-build action, feels like the most authentic adaptation yet - certainly more authentic than the brain-dead brawlers EA was putting out around the original film releases. The game even goes so far as to split the different heroes where appropriate, and cleverly uses the gaze of Sauron as a means of pushing you to do the next bit with Sam and Frodo or Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli. Led by glowing Lego studs across a cleverly miniaturised Middle Earth, you’re cleverly taken through the story of each film in a way that no previous Lego adaptation has managed before. Warner Bros Lego The Lord Of The Rings (DS) at Amazon for £11.31.
The Hobbits, for example, have a range of useful fire-lighting, crawling and fishing skills, while Legolas has the sort of archery and acrobatic skills you might expect. The game features all the characters of the fellowship in playable form, not to mention the likes of Faramir, Eowyn, Theoden and Gollum, with each having some useful ability in classic Lego style. If you’ve ever wanted to know what the battle of Helms Deep or the flight through Moria would look like recreated in Lego form, this is your chance. Lego The Lord of the Rings takes practically every major sequence in the Peter Jackson film trilogy and transforms it into another sequence of silly Lego mayhem. We’ve seen Lego do epic before, but never quite this epic.