LEGO Lord of the Rings for PlayStation 3 Reviews by Gamers

The title says it all. If you aren't quite yet tired of the tried and true formula for Lego games, then definitely this will be one you want to get. But if you think they are getting a little stale, and you don't have particular affinity for Lord of the Rings, then you may find this to be more of the same. There are obviously some differences and some novel things added, but I could write pages on what is the same and writing what is different would take all of a few sentences. Of course, I will qualify this by saying, I don't count as "different" the coloring of red bricks silver (mithril bricks) and crafting them into mithril items that give character abilities that previous titles gave through the "red brick" vehicle.

I did like this game, but it wasn't really that fresh, to be completely honest. I found mithril brick gathering a little tedious. I found it extremely annoying that there were two types of things that were needed to open certain things. For example, the mithril fireworks wand only exploded some silver obstacles, leaving me wondering how to get past other of the same thing. It turns out there is one character you have to buy who can explode ALL silver objects. Grrrrr. That was very frustrating. Similarly for the boxing gloves. The mithril boxing gloves are good enough to open most orange pull handles (strong character doors), but not one in the overland map. You had to find a true strong character to open that one pull handle. Again, grrrrr.

I thought the overland map was neat and well done....however, it did make for a bunch of extra traveling to get to places and hunt mithril bricks. Other lego titles didn't have quite as much "traveling" in the overworld areas. Perhaps Clone Wars was a close second in this regard.

Overall well done, perhaps a bit buggy, but about what I expected.

Only completed the 1st part of the trilogy and the gameplay is really good. Finally get to see some actual spoken words rather than mutterings as experienced in the Batman and Harry Potter series.

Looking forward to the next parts...

Had a few game crashes (PS3) version where I got certain characters stuck in dark caves or behind rocks. In each case I had to abort the game play and revert to a saved position...

I enjoyed playing this game, there are alot of side missions that will keep you busy for hours.

Overall, I had enjoyed the game. However there were a few objectives that were clearly poorly made and lead to great frustration. However the big one was one of the bricks is glitched to being useless. To find out 30 hrs. of my life have been wasted and that a game is unbeatable at 99.5 precent is a source of major dissapointment for me. This is going to taint my desire to get their games from here on out.

Typical Lego Game. Very solid, good fun if you are a fan of those other games. This one send you on quests to find blueprints and mitril to forge the special items you need in freeplay.

Not bad,

Take anything epic make it into a video game and you have a hit. Take Legos and add them into the soup and it gets even better. No exception when it comes to this game just as it does any other. Its a good pick up if you liked any other Lego game in there franchise.

My wife and I enjoyed playing this game up until the last mithril block was glitched and would never allow us to collect it, and thus never get 100%. I wish Traveller's Tales would take a little more time on their games because they are fun and about the only co-op that doesn't involve the internet. Some seem to have been able to complete it, so it may have just been our disc. All in all, especially if you liked the other LEGO games, check this one out. I hope you have better luck than we did with your copy!

This is the first Lego Game I ever played, and it was extremely enjoyable. The combat is not that great, nor is the platforming, but what makes the game so much fun, is the creative way Lego used it's licensing rights. It told the story of the entire Lord of The Ring saga, with it's own twists , using real clips from the movie(s). The game was fantastic and creative. I will definatly check out more games created by Lego !! .. and very kid friendly as well

hands down the best yet. scenes from the movies with voices. pretty time consuming getting the platinum trophy but the game is fresh and not too repeatative. the next legos title is marvel heroes i cant wait.

This is a very good game,probably the best lego game yet with many different abillities and characters.If you liked all the other lego games you will love this game.