Apparently, the company that made this had the rights to make a game based on the books, not the new line cinema films. So it was more directly inspired by the books. I remember borrowing it in high school for the GBA and thinking it wasn’t bad. Wandering in Moria for ages. There’s something charming about it and the graphics are more fairytale inspired which is interesting. If you google the PC version there’s a lot of that early 2000s charm. Obviously most people would have played the EA published two towers game which featured events from the fellowship.

  • Soupbreaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I recently started replaying the 1990 Interplay LotR game, which I have fond memories of playing as a kid. I also discovered they made a sequel which I never played, but intend to!

    It’s a top-down, party-based rpg with turn-based combat, and a fairly robust keyword-based dialogue system. Pretty clunky by today’s standard, but it’s chock full of loving detail. There are a number of deviations from the books for the sake of gameplay, but it’s quite faithful to the spirit of the text.

    You can find it on various abandonware sites, and apparently someone’s also rewritten the engine!