Quest givers are a great fit for a fantasy themed game like this, and give added incentive for revisiting areas via Free Play mode. Retrieving items will lead to different rewards, including the coveted red cheat blocks that’ll unlock options like invincibility, LEGO stud multipliers, and a whole lot more. And you’ll need to unlock a number of characters, as their unique special abilities will be the only way to fully complete a number of levels, provided you have an interest in uncovering everything the game has to offer.Īlso, in addition to giving you most of Middle-Earth as an open world playground, LEGO The Lord of the Rings introduces unique quest givers, which will task you with finding a particular item hidden in different stages. And while you’ll cover a lot of ground in the single player campaign, taking control of series favorites like Eowyn, Faramir and more, there’s nearly double the initial playing cast featured as extra unlockables once everything is done and through. Like most games in the series, LEGO The Lord of the Rings features a whole host of characters to play as. And later, when the fellowship is split, there’s a lot of focus put on switching between groups in order to turn the gaze of Sauron, allowing you access to new areas when done. It’s really fun, and sort of epic, to see the entire fellowship strolling behind your lead character as you make your way through the Mines of Moira. But here in LEGO The Lord of the Rings it’s pulled off extremely well. One other LEGO game, Pirates of the Caribbean, made an attempt at this that didn’t quite work due to some awful path finding. While you’ll still be going through a series of levels, ransacking LEGO structures to build up studs that can then be cashed in towards additional characters you’ll do so with a pretty large party behind you. The core formula of the series remains largely unchanged, but there are some fun additions and departures from the norm.

If you’ve got a favorite action sequence from the films, there’s a good chance you’ll play it here in LEGO The Lord of the Rings. Most of the important bits in between are covered, like the Battle at Helms Deep, the Ent assault at Saruman’s tower and so on. The game follows the theatrical release of the three films quite closely, with the story originating in The Shire, and ending at Mount Doom. LEGO The Lord of the Rings is no different, and provides players with a pretty faithful adaptation of the LOTR films in LEGO form, while carrying over new additions like open world travel from LEGO Batman 2 and voice over work, making for a sizeable adventure for those willing to dive in. It’s no secret that I have some fondness for the LEGO games developed by Traveller’s Tales/TT Games, and outside of a few bad eggs, they’ve been some of the most consistently fun single player and co-op experiences on this generation of hardware.

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