The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers (PS2)

Some weeks ago now, I posted a review on the rather disappointing Fellowship of the Ring PS2 game. From my thoughts on the first Lord of the Rings game, I suppose you might well be wondering why I chose to spend more money on the second instalment, The Two Towers. Surely I would just be setting myself up for more disappointment? Well no, not entirely. The reasoning behind my decision to overlook my earlier disappointment was that the wise people at Tolkien Enterprises had realised how badly the Fellowship game had gone down, and decided to do things differently for part 2. The contract was awarded not to Black Label (who were responsible for the Fellowship game), ...  Read the complete review

Let's face it, film portrayals in games are usually pants. You know what I mean, you watch a film like Blade and you think to yourself, the game is bound to be just as good, because software producers aren't really just trying to cash in on the incredibly lucrative Film Merchandise market, they actually, genuinely, truthfully want to produce a game which is accurate to the film and that I'm really going to enjoy. Hmm. I've been disappointed time and time again by film portrayals, so I was understandably twitchy when stood in my local game shop with LOTR: TTT in hand hoping, no... praying that it would excite me as much as the film did. ...  Read the complete review

I bought the PS2 for my children (honest, not for me!) two months ago; I was very surprised at the time to see a licensed version of the ?Two Towers? already available, as the movie had not been released at the time. Electronic Arts have worked hard to create a game that captures the dark atmosphere of the movies while still trying to make an entertaining game. My first thoughts about the game are that the title is incorrect ? probably half of the game is based on the first movie, and therefore the title is misleading. <Game Play> Having played the ?LOTR:fellowship of the ring? by a different company, which is based on the book rather than the movie ...  Read the complete review

This Christmas I got a Playstation 2 and Lord Of The Rings: Two Towers was another game I bought with it. I haven't played the PS2 game for the first film but didn't think that really mattered. The game is very realistic and the characters really do look real, so do the settings. The whole point of this game is to begin from the top of the cliff where the ringwraiths were very close to completing their mission of retrieving the ring. Frodo was stabbed with an immortal blade. You then have to fight off the ringwraiths and are taken all the way to Helm's Deep. There are not many levels though. I bought this game and in about 3 weeks of playing completed this ...  Read the complete review

Lord of the Rings games are a little old now, however older games can sometimes represent value for money. The game begins with film footage and the first level you play as one of the characters and it seems impossible to die. Perhaps, this is to get you used to the controls. Speaking of the controls, there are some bizarre choices of which buttons do what. Nevermind, too much because the screen shows you what to do. There is a helpful controller on the loading screen highlighting which buttons may be relevant to a particular level. This doesn't help too much, when you must play as Aragon on the second level. Here you must defeat those ...  Read the complete review