LEGO The Lord of the Rings: The Video Game | |
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LEGO The Lord of the Rings: The Video Game is a Video Game that was released on November 13, 2012 in the U.S., and November 23 2012 in Europe. [3]
The Mac OS X version was published by Feral Interactive and was released on February 21st, 2013.[1]
Gameplay
The gameplay in The Lord of the Rings is slightly different than other LEGO games developed by TT Games. In the first sections, players move similarly to other games like LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game, running, jumping, fighting, and tagging. Then new mechanics are added, such as jumping to avoid attacks (in a manner similar to Super Mario Galaxy) and slow movement and rolls when sneaking past Nazgûl. In addition, in between levels are open world spaces that players run through, and beginning with The Two Towers, a path of players can be chosen before a level (i.e. Frodo, Gollum and Sam on one adventure and Aragorn and the rest of the Fellowship on another. Players also control larger characters (with other characters "piloting" them, such as a cave troll or Treebeard).
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File:Broom.png |
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File:Bucket Pippin.png |
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File:Carrot.png |
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File:Red and Gold Sword.png |
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File:Elven Rope.png |
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File:Light of Earendil.png |
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File:Bow of the Galadhrim.png |
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File:Horn of Gondor.png |
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File:The One Ring.jpg | |
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File:Pan.png |
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File:Anduril.png |
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File:Sting, not glowing.png |
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File:Sting, glowing.png |
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File:Banana in Bow.png |
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♣ indicates a item available with downloadable content
Characters
There are 84 playable characters in the game.[4]
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File:Arag.jpg |
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File:Arwen Blue.png |
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File:Shire Frodo.png |
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File:Sam in Orc Armour.png |
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File:Sauron.png |
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♣ indicates a character available with downloadable content
♦ indicates a character playable on handheld versions of the game. Several appear on consoles using the "Extra Toggle" Red Power Brick.
Non-playable characters
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File:Guritz.png | |
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Animals and Creatures
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Levels
Level | Playable Characters | Enemies | Location(s) | Boss(es) |
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Prologue |
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The Black Rider |
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The Mines of Moria |
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Amon Hen |
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Taming Gollum |
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Track Hobbits |
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The Dead Marshes |
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Warg Attack |
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Helm’s Deep |
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Osgiliath |
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The Secret Stairs |
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The Paths of the Dead |
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Cirith Ungol |
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Battle of the Pelennor Fields |
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The Black Gate |
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Mount Doom |
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Locations
- Arnor
- Rhovanion
- Lothlórien
- Amon Hen
- Emyn Muil
- Rohan (Images)
- Helm's Deep
- Edoras
- Fangorn Forest
- Dunharrow
- Gondor
- Mordor
Press Statement
Movie/Game Differences
General
- Sam, Merry, and Pippin are never seen to have matches, a fishing rod and a bucket respectively in the movie.
- Like the movie, Gollum is good at climbing, but in the game he can climb absurdly steep walls like Spider-Man can.
- Radagast only appeared in the Hobbit movie. Note that in the book he is mentioned only in the Council of Elrond.
- Most of Denethor's scenes in The Return of the King are omitted but do appear in the portable version of the game.
- The Grey Havens scene appears as a secret ending that completes The Return of the King story if the player manages to get a 100% completion.
The Fellowship of the Ring
- No orcs got in the way of Elrond and Isildur when they went to the Crack of Doom in the movie, but in the film, they do.
- Isildur's refusal to destroy The Ring is placed in the Prologue level while it appears in the movie as a flashback during a conversation between Gandalf and Elrond.
- Bilbo's birthday is omitted in the game but appears in the portable version.
- In the game, Frodo accidentally drops The Ring into a mug that reveals the Elvish script. In the movie, He sees the script after Gandalf burned the envelope that has The Ring inside.
- Sam eavesdrops the chimney instead of the window in the game.
- Gandalf goes to Saruman after Frodo and Sam leave The Shire in the movie. However in the game, it takes place in the middle of the Hobbits' encounter with The Black Rider.
- The Prancing Pony scene in the game has the Hobbits drinking their mugs and eating drumsticks as well as Aragorn blowing bubbles in his drink instead of smoking a pipe.
- Merry's line "something for the road" is from the The Return of the King.
- There are two different versions of Frodo catching The Ring. In the movie, Frodo was about to warn Pippin not to say his name in front of the men of Bree when he accidentally knocked Frodo, causing him to trip backwards on a person's foot. In the game Pippin knocks Frodo when he got up from the table to grab some drumsticks.
- Frodo's eyes do not turn blue in the game after he was stabbed by a Ringwraith, who stabs him in the armpit instead of his shoulder.
- In the game, Aragorn, Sam, Merry and Pippin follow Arwen as she tries to take Frodo to Rivendell while fleeing from The Ringwraiths.
- Instead of healing Frodo, Elrond uses an instruction manual to rebuild him.
- With the exception of Gloin, some parts of The Council of Elrond scene in the game are omitted but the line "One does not simply walk into Mordor" appears as an achievement.
- Sam, Merry and Pippin unlike in the game where they appear in their disguises, sneak into the Council when they heard Frodo volunteering to take the Ring.
- In the game, The Fellowship does not enter the Mines of Moira until after saving Frodo from the Watcher but they do enter it in the movie before the creature appears.
- Pippin never actually gets stuck in the well in the movie.
- Boromir says "they have a cave troll" when he hears it. In the game he says it when he sees it, and Aragorn pulls a "stater of the obvious" face.
- In the movie Legolas saves Gimli by grabbing his beard but in the game Aragorn saves him from falling off the stairs.
- Gandalf's battle with The Balrog from the beginning of The Two Towers is inserted near the end of the Mines of Moria level.
- Pippin eats an apple in the game while everyone mourns the loss of Gandalf.
- The Mirror of Galadriel appears in the portable version of the game.
- Lurtz shoots Boromir with three arrows and fails to shoot his fourth, in the game however, he shoots him with an arrow, a broomstick, a banana and then fails to shoot him with a chicken. That is a reference to the movie Hot Shots: Part Deux.
- Gollum never watched Frodo and Sam sail in the movie.
The Two Towers
- Sam tells Frodo that Gollum is a villain in the game but he says it in The Return of the King.
- The Riders of Rohan do not perform their synchronize dance in the movie.
- Éomer in the game appears more of a friendly guy.
- The part from movie where Gandalf talks to Aragorn about his continuing battle with the Balrog on top of the tower is placed in the Taming Sméagol level in the game.
- In the movie, Grishnákh is the only orc that actually goes inside Fangorn Forest. In the game, he goes in and commands other orcs to kill Merry and Pippin.
- Wormtongue was never trapped in cages in Edoras in the movie
- In the movie Théoden turns back into his normal self but in the game Éowyn rips the beard off of him to remove the curse.
- Frodo, Sam and Gollum never watched The Haradrim soldiers deliver pizza at The Black Gate in the movie.
- In the game after slicing the orc in half, its legs kicked Aragorn between the legs causing him to fall off the cliff. In the movie he falls off the cliff when his foot got caught onto one of the Warg Riders.
- In the movie, Faramir asks Frodo and Sam their names while being held captive by him and his men in The Forbidden Pool. In the game, Frodo encounters him after he, Sam and Gollum watch them take down the Haradrim soldiers and the Oliphaunts.
- Prior to the Battle of Helm's Deep, Théoden tells the Rohan soldiers to get the women and children into the cave but in the game he says it to Éowyn, who wanted to fight after pulling a sword out of her hands.
- Peter Jackson throws a trophy at an orc instead of a spear in the game.
- Frodo, Sam and Gollum escaped Osgiliath days before the orcs arrived in the movie. In the game, they're there at the same time. In the book, however, they never even go to Osgiliath in the first place.
- Saruman is last seen when he is stabbed by Wormtongue and falls off of the top of Orthanc with the Palantir in the Extended Edition of The Return of the King (in the book he is killed by him in The Shire). In the game, he kicks the Palantir from the balcony halfway up Orthanc that knocks out Pippin.
- Aragorn, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, Éomer, Gamling and Théoden meet Merry and Pippin a few days after the flooding of Isengard in The Return of the King. The game follows the book except only Aragorn, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli and Théoden arrived to Isengard immediately after.
The Return of the King
- Frodo goes inside of Shelob's lair alone where in the game Gollum goes in there with him.
- In the movie, Éowyn grabs Merry onto her horse. In the game, she grabs him onto a goat.
- In the game, after Gollum's first long fall (not the one at Mount Doom), that is when Frodo sees Sam and forgives him, while in the movie, it is after he saves Frodo from Cirith Ungol.
- Shagrat never helped Sam defeat Shelob in the movie. That is to make the game more co-op based.
- When Shelob stings Frodo, his eyes turn white and makes a shocking look on his face in the game while in the movie, he drools foam out of his mouth and has a ends up with a blank face.
- Éowyn battles the Witch King alone in the movie. But in the game Merry battles with her.
- In the game, Frodo is not shown tied up and his face covered in Shelob's web while Shagrat and Gorbang go through his belongings.
- In the movie, Sam stabs Gorbag from behind with Sting while in the game he hits him in the head with a frying pan.
- Sam never gives The Ring to Frodo in the game after he rescues him. Instead, The Ring was found inside of Frodo's shirt.
- The Cirith Ungol level where Frodo and Sam make their way out of the tower is from the book while it was omitted from the movie.
- Gollum bites off Frodo's finger in the movie. However, Frodo gets his hand chewed in the game and later puts it back on.
- Some of the multiple endings from the movie are omitted in the game.
- The secret ending does not show Frodo giving the red book Sam. This version of The Grey Havens scene plays more of a happy ending when Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and Boromir, who appears as a ghost, join the remaining Hobbits as they watch the ship leave Middle Earth.
Notes
- LEGO The Lord of the Rings is the second LEGO game made by TT Games to feature talking minifigures.
- The game features a new dynamic for a LEGO game, where the characters (Only members of the Fellowship of the Ring are confirmed) will be able to acquire new items/weapons as the story advances.
- LEGO Batman 2 showed a "coming soon" part for LEGO The Lord of The Rings video game.
- Pre-orders from amazon.com included the Middle-earth pack and pre-orders from amazon.co.uk included the characters pack 1 and the Weapons and Magical items pack DLC.
- There are three characters packs. The first one contains Sméagol, Prince Imrahil, Sauron of the Second Age (Annatar), Beregond, and Théodred.
- The second pack contains Mini-Balrog, Glorfindel, Farmer Maggot, Butterbur Barliman, and Corsair Pirate.
- The third pack contains Faramir in Gondor Armour and Barrow-wight.
- The bonus level consists of an entirely brick-built of Middle-earth, which Sauron and the Mouth of Sauron can explore. This includes brick-built versions of Hobbit-holes, buildings in Bree, Weathertop, Rivendell, The Mines of Moria, Edoras, Helm's Deep, Lothlorien, the Argonath, Minas Tirith, Isengard, Barad-Dur, and Mount Doom.
Minifigure Included with Pre-order
Videos
Trailers
Gameplay Demos
Gallery
Screenshots
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Feral Interactive - LEGO The Lord of the Rings for Mac
- ↑ http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/01/lego-the-lord-of-the-rings-builds-a-blocky-middle-earth-this-fal/
- ↑ http://www.ttgames.com/node/301
- ↑ Trailer 2
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Lego Lord of the Rings Shelob Attacks Review 9470
- ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 6.15 6.16 6.17 6.18 6.19 6.20 6.21 6.22 6.23 6.24 Official trailer
- ↑ Game poster
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See also
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
External links
- LEGO The Lord of the Rings: The Video Game official site
- LEGO The Lord of the Rings Mac platform official site by Feral Interactive.
- Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games and The LEGO Group rebuild middle-earth brick by brick with LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™