Thanks to having proper visualisations from the movies, you'll pass numerous familiar sites on your travels you can stop off and explore, which isn't possible without this pseudo free-roaming aspect. This means you get off your lazy backside and you damn well walk to Bree! While the scale is of course reduced massively, there's a huge immersion factor at work here, even in LEGO form, which is difficult to replicate. This doesn't mean a cut-scene where you arrive, then go to the next level, no. Once you have done the initial levels in Bag End, you are then tasked with heading to Bree to meet Gandalf. Instead of just going to levels inside a large hub, you are instead presented with Middle Earth in all it's (reduced) splendour. Taking place across all three of Peter Jackson's LotR movies, the game works much the same as other LEGO games that happen to tie-in to movie franchises - it first makes you play through a story based level, loosely following the original plot, then once done you can re-enter the level at will with all manner of unfitting characters, looking for secrets and those precious studs. With so many LEGO games based on big franchises, one has to wonder if there's enough ideas left to expand on the existing formula. A fully voiced, free-roaming-ish take on the lives of those defending Middle Earth.
What more could you want? That game changing nugget of information aside, Traveller's Tales bring us LEGO Lord of the Rings. Reviews // 8th Jan 2013 - 11 years ago // By Kev Malone LEGO Lord of the Rings: The Video Game Review
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