Lego The Lord of the Rings

Lego The Lord of the Rings is a Lego-themed action-adventure video game developed by Traveller's Tales, that was released on Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows, Wii, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 in November 2012. The macOS version of the game, published by Feral Interactive, was released on 21 February 2013.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Great voice acting taken directly from the films.
 * 2) There are lots of collectables to uncover.
 * 3) The game tells the story of all three The Lord of the Rings films in a satisfying way.
 * 4) The exploration is encouraged and fun.
 * 5) Great boss battles and set pieces, many of them unique and surprisingly ambitious.
 * 6) A dynamic stud trail guides you as to where you have to go to continue the story.
 * 7) The areas in the game really come to life such as roaring waterfalls lining the face of distant cliffs. Also, birds take flight and flap their way across the sky.
 * 8) Great co-op mode.
 * 9) The inventory items are very cool.
 * 10) The game does an awesome job with a few sequences that do a nice job of turning events from the fiction into entertaining challenges.
 * 11) Huge explorable open-world environments.
 * 12) It's easy to warp directly to places you have previously visited, or to consult a map and set helpful waypoints.
 * 13) Beautiful visuals.
 * 14) Great playable characters.
 * 15) The game has a compelling mixture of cooperative gameplay, secrets galore, and a story that remains one of the most fantastic that Hollywood has ever captured on film.
 * 16) You can bring new characters to familiar environments to find secrets that you couldn't get beforehand.
 * 17) The game uses the original soundtrack from The Lord of the Rings films composed by Howard Shore.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The only thing you get for 100% is the final cutscene which completes the plot for Return of the King.
 * 2) Due to the game being delisted from most online services, DLC is also no longer available.
 * 3) The handheld ports suffer from framerate drops and ugly graphics.
 * 4) The Infamous Whack-a-Mole Silver Brick in Amon Hen where it keeps infinitely respawning on the map. Luckilly, there are solutions to this problem.

Reception
Lego The Lord of the Rings has received generally positive reviews from critics, mostly praising the story, humor and visuals based on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. GameRankings gave it a score of 82% based on 12 reviews.

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