Gave this as a gift and the kids still play them all the time. Im not a huge console game fan (I'm more of a PC FPS player) but my nephews love these and said to rate them four stars! I gave them the whole LOTR set along with the Hobbit.

I ove being able to choose different characters and have special attacks. It challenging and fun. The controls are simple and the graphics are as good as one could expect. I really liked the cutscenes that were actually part of the movies.

This is the best game ever! You first start the game as Icealdor fighting
millions of Orcs and Goblins.After a couple minites the DARK LORD SAURON
will apear.Then you will notice Icealdor cutting SAURON in half.The saddest part in the game is that Icealdor refuses to destroy the ring
of evil.After SAURON is defeted you start going foward in time about
3000 years When the hobbit Frodo Baggins is given the ring so he can destroy it in the fires of Mount Doom.But the hobbit had one fear,
Naziguls. But help is near!And that is when you start the 2nd Level
as Aragorn saving Frodo`s [...] from the Ringrauth`s.I need to poop!

this game (...) rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!you can play it 3 times since you can take each character through the boards if you wish.the characters are the elf,dwarf and strider from the movie.as you advance levels you can get points for how effectively you killed the monsters.then you buy cool moves after each mission.an example move might be like "from a lying posistion spring up,swing hitting everyone in range then drive your sword into one guys guts killing him."its so cool!on some boards there are literaly hundreds of monsters coming after you.so all in all its like if someone took d and d,made mortal kombat like fighters with the characters then through them in to a star wars battlefront like situation.its totaly cool and definarely within the top 5 maybe 3 games ever invented!

If you are a huge LOTRs fan and will buy anything that has lord of the rings written on it then you should buy this especially if you like video games. I first bought this when I went on a shopping spree for Xbox games, and I thought, I like the books, movies, why not? It blew me away. (However, if you hated the movies go somewhere else because this game is based on the movies). You can play as either Aragorn, Legolas, or Gimli. There is a also a bonus level where you play as a bonus character, I haven't beaten the game yet so I don't know who it is. Now this is a cool game but it can get a little tough at parts because you get surrounded by orks, the only other thing that irked me about this game was that you really can't explore, if you go off the path you just run in place. And you really want to explore too because there is great graphics. Does anyone know who the bonus character is? I'm thinking it might be either Frodo or Gandalf. Have you ever been playing a game and the voices of the characters are really high pitched or just plain crappy? Well don't worry, they got the actors from the film for the voices, really cool. Plus as you go along as you beat levels they unlock interviews with the actors and makers of the game. Great game, except for a few things this is awesome, if you like LOTRs buy it.