LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™

if you love LOTR its the exact gameplay just lego. its fun and a great game

One of the better LEGO games in terms of following its subject matter closely, still humorous but toned down compared to others. The Hobbit has the bigger and more interesting over-world, but the actual levels are far better in this, 30 hours in and still loads to do.

Let me just say I had an absolute blast with this one. First of all Steamdeck users, before starting the game press the gear icon next to it, press properties go to compatibility and check off force the use of compatibility tool. Put it on GE Proton I put mine on GE Proton7-55 and it worked so smoothly at 60fps and 1080p quality.

Now on to the review:
This is the definitive lord of the rings game, YES you heard me the definitive LOTR movie trilogy experience. Not Shadow of Mordor or Shadow of War. This one right here though only because those amazing games do not go over the movies. This tells all 3 movies with all the voices of the movies in the games audio so you get all those amazing performances from various celebrities. It honestly does a pretty good job telling the 3 movies, and as I would not say to play this if you have not seen them, I also would not blame you if you just played this. It is a wonderful experience and introduction into Middle-Earth and it will probably persuade you to watch the movies. This is a LEGO game through and through but there are many deaths in this game as well as much lighter comedy for a more serious overall tone to fit the movies, there is some physical comedy but compared to other LEGO games it is a very small amount. This game authentically keeps the heart of the movies.

LEGO
I mean you build to solve puzzles while hacking and slashing through enemies and platforming, just a regular lego game and nice Open world that covers all the way from Gondor to Mordor I mean it's more coverage then Shadow of War BUT the areas are very small compared to that of course. HOWEVER, there is a big mechanic that I have not played in other lego games.

ARMORY
You get an inventory wheel where literally everything you pick up you have to find a slot in your inventory to put it in. Then there's an armory and gear system where you can literally on the fly give characters abilities and different appearances, the collection to choose from once you find all the items, gear, weapons, and armor is quite massive for a new mechanic. Various items do interesting things that keeps the gameplay new and there is so much variety. BUT there are problems one being once you have the items you cannot put them in inventory slots instead you have to bring up the treasure menu and select the item you want, you can wear different items all at once like armor and weapons but once they conflict with eachother the character will switch out the armor. The armor or abilities from what you give your character will also not stay you have to bring up your treasure menu constantly in overworld and in levels unfortunately.

CHARACTER WHEEL
This one sucks, I am used to just bringing up the massive character menu to choose who I want to be, here you have a character wheel that leads to the character menu and then you can select what you want and you can only alter two characters in the character wheel and it WILL reset all the time. This mechanic makes the game a lot slower then other LEGO games.

ABILITIES
NO FLYING SADLY, explosives, fire, tracking, NO GOLDEN LEGOS to blast to oblivion, growing, archery, acrobatics, illumination, various ways to make yourself invisible. Other abilities usually are with the unique items like being able to grow heads, change character colors, force enemies to dance, freeze, burn, and one of my favorites turning an enemy into a skeleton and THEN making them dance. No flying ability sucks because it makes traversal through the open world very slow. You can teleport but I am so used to being able to fly in LEGO games for some reason. Another problem is no one can sprint for some reason and they need a special item to sprint, this one just sucks to be honest.

CONCLUSION
Overall, if you want to play all three movies with some physical comedy through an action adventure puzzle game with platforming elements then this is it. Even with glitch galore this game is still so fun and the new armory treasure system though not executed the best way is exciting none the less to use. I recommend this game for any LOTR fans, LEGO game fans, and especially if you are both!!!

PS look up some guides to make sure to avoid some game breaking glitches.

This and Lego: The Hobbit are sooo good! Shout out to the devs!

nostalgic asf. such a genuine gaming experience.

Great Lego game, had a blast playing it.

My only problem with it is that when I try jumping to certain platforms, my character will always stop just short of the next one whenever I try to make the jump.

This game is worth it for the soundtrack alone.

If you enjoy LEGO games and love Lord of the Rings, then you're gonna love this game.

Anybody who recommends you this game has not tried to complete it. During the porting process they have managed to create a more bug filled experience than a trip to Australia. To enjoy this game I would suggest a leather suit and a german woman with a whip as this is the true masochist experience.

pretty solid for both a lego and a LoTR game. WAYYYYYYY better than the Skywalker Saga lego game. grab this on sale

There's a bug at the Secret Stairs level that prevents you from progressing. This bug is unfixable and (to my knowledge) does not have a workaround. The level is at about 14 hours of gameplay. I don't understand how there are positive reviews on this game when this bug has apparently remained unfixed since it has come out (2012).

EDIT: I changed my review to positive because I love LOTR and more importantly, I found a workaround! Credit to Gailenga for this one (though I did modify the fix a little). The fix is to shut down steam, turn off your internet, and backup then delete the file "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment\LEGO The Lord of the Rings"
After that, boot up the game again and you should be good to go, although you will have to reset your controls and go through the initial cutscene again.

DO NOT GET if you have a Chromebook with steam beta. Issue with lava/water texture causing it to be a flashing epileptic hazard that can be seen through walls and incredibly buggy. In order to fix it you'll have to jump through hoops and other obstacles but it involves having a background in coding before attempting to install Proton GE which may or may not work.

This is by far the best game LEGO ever made. I will die on this hill.

Lego Lord of the Rings is a true classic! What more is there to say? It perfectly combines the charm of Lego with the epic world of Middle-earth. The game takes you through the iconic scenes from The Lord of the Rings movies, and you get to experience them in the fun, humorous Lego style. The gameplay is classic Lego fun—puzzle-solving, platforming, and building—while also capturing the spirit of the original story.

The character variety is great, with each member of the Fellowship having unique abilities, and the game's world is beautifully recreated in Lego form. Whether you’re a fan of the movies or just love Lego games, Lego Lord of the Rings delivers an enjoyable experience that never gets old. It’s one of those games that feels timeless and will always hold a special place in the hearts of Lego and LOTR fans alike.

tl;dr

Only Lego game to ever give me goosebumps - must play for LotR fans

Overview:

This feels like a nobrainer, as "Lego Lord of the Rings" mostly explains itself. Over the course of 17 Levels you relive the story of the three Peter Jackson Movies, and discover the huge open world of Middle-Earth in between the missions. A lot of studs, characters, Mithril Items and the classic red bricks wait for you to be discovered and get collected.

The Good Stuff:

It is an amazing retelling of the movie trilogy, with the derpy Lego touch delivering quite a couple of chuckles. I'll just mention the Witch King and dark corners here. Although i knew what was going to happen story wise, i still was surprised quite often. By the creativity of the levels, how they managed to lead you through the specific parts and partly by the fact, that you are actually playing certain scenarios, instead of just being shown a cutscene. The epicness of some moments is quite unchallenged. I sincerely had goosebumps more than once, which does not happen that often, especially not in a Lego Game. Exploring Middle-Earth in a Lego setting feels kinda wholesome, discovering all the relevant places and just being able to go there was amazing. Like it's adequate for a Lego Game, there are a lot of characters to collect, with most of the major story characters available, and some fillers. Also i genuinely enjoyed the bossfights which feels like a pleasant surprise. No, they are no Elden Ring adversaries, but they have several attacks, specific ways of being damaged and are just overall incredibly well staged.

The Sorta-Kinda-Grinds-My-Gears-Stuff:

Yes, it was good, but some levels felt a bit uninspired. While the devs were pretty creative at times, they resorted to tedious repetitive actions at other times. If you have to do the same thing like five times in a row it gets old. It could be worse, but it had me thinking "what ... again?" occasionally. Performance wise everything was fine, with some minor issues and bugs, but nothing too drastic. For most characters there is sadly no need or use case. Mostly you pick the same couple of heroes, because they can deal with stuff, and others just can't. Many characters don't do anything at all, they are just ... there. If you want to play the game or the story in free mode with them, by all means, but they alone wont help you collecting everything. Also, it could be a local/hardware issue, but at times, the character selection was very wonky and did not really work as intended, which got a wee bit aggravating at times, in situations where you have to cycle through your characters often. Oh, and the bonus level just kinda sucks, let's not talk about that.

The Atrociously-Bad Stuff:

Nope, nothing to see here.

Achievement-Hunter-Things:

Basically collect everything and get 100%. Furthermore there are a couple of level and interaction specific achievements. Some of which are a bit buggy and need some luck or minor troubleshooting, but the problems are popular and widely discussed, with different possible solutions (i managed, so can you). The road to 100% gets slightly unnerving in the end. Just collecting everything gets tedious at some point. Furthermore, the movement is a bit rough around the edges and you will learn that, when you really want to do everything. There are a couple of jump puzzles and stuff like that, which the game is not really designed for doing. Other than that, you have to play each level at least twice, if you start Freeplay without the right characters or Mithril items for every possible interaction even more often, some preparation is recommended (i used the IGN Walkthrough for assistance). Some people seem to struggle with the "Delved to greedily..." Achievement, for which you have to collect 10 billion studs, but it's actually not that hard and comes naturally, if you focus on the stud multiplier red bricks first. DLC's are not needed.

Conclusion:

It is totally up to you, how extensive you play this, there is no need to collect everything, only the story can be enjoyed. With that being said, for Lord of the Rings fans i actually consider this to be a must play. Especially because of the aforementioned goosebumps parts, which make up for a bit of redundancy. Also, the unnerving parts where exclusively related to the achievement journey, so they will not be encountered, while going for the story levels. Not much more to say, just grab the game and have an epic time.

10/10.

Greatest LEGO game ever made. Hands down.

Nice adaptation, just didn't like the death of Boromir

Playing with my 7 year old in coop on a potato laptop. 10/10.

i have the best experience with this game

no bugs, wonderful graphics, yeah i'd say that this is worth the 19 dollars.

Love all the little side quests, on top of the usual slapstick Lego humor.

Lego Lord of the Rings is a fun game that allows you to play through the events of the entire Lord of the Rings Trilogy. The Lego humor is back too. Most of the characters are playable, with a few minor exceptions, and the inventory system is much appreciated.
I just wish some of the generic weapons were available as unlockable items, that any character could use. (Broadsword, Bow, Axe, and Short Sword, Knife, or Spear.) Minor problem at best, but it would've been nice to have those options.

But The Custom Characters leave much to be desired. While they do give you a wide range of default weapons, and cosmetics, but they don't give you the options of if you want the custom characters to be a Hobbit, Dwarf, Elf, Human, or Orc. And the Hair styles (of all things) are limited to four choices, two of which feel out of place.

So besides those customization options, this game is very well made, and I recommend it to Lord of the Rings fans, Lego fans, and whoever is interested.

If you're a lego fan or a LOTR fan you'll get a kick out of this game but you have to be dedicated to stick with it.
A lot of the levels are monotonous and boring and everytime something happens the game feels the need to have a panning shot showing you what just happened.

5/10 probably one of the less good lego games

~ STORY ~
🔲 This game has no story
🔲 Some lore
🔲 It's there for people who want it
🔲 Well written
🔲 Leading to more in-depth researches/thoughts
✅ A model to get inspired by


~ LENGTH ~
🔲 0 (No story)
🔲 Short
✅ Average
🔲 Long
🔲 To infinity and beyond


~ MUSIC ~
✅ Just filling noises/No music
🔲 Trivial and uneventful
🔲 Good and/or fitting the game's artistic dispositions
🔲 Memorable
🔲 Transcending whispers of a forgotten world


~ INTEREST ~
🔲 I would rather watch paint dry
🔲 Hard to enjoy
🔲 Repetitive and/or uninspired
✅ A good moment
🔲 Sticking out of the pack
🔲 You will remember it long after

Just a goated game in general. PS: DO THE GANDALF SEQUENCE BEFORE FRODO-SAM SEQUENCE IN "Taming Gollum". If you do the frodo-sam sequence first you get stuck. I won't spoil how, even if its a minor spoiler

Lego LOTR is my favorite lego game. its just a 10/10 game. However if you are trying to get all the achivements like me then getting 10,000,000,000 studs is a huge pain in the ass. Even with all the stud multipliers it just takes forever.

one of the best game i ever played!!!
Haylee recommended!!

Really wanted to love this game. HOWEVER, unfortunately it is just WAAAAY too buggy and poorly configured. It WILL crash your computer and burn out your CPU and GPU. I know, it's just a lego game and should not be demanding but it's that bad. Cannot recommend and unfortunately I would say given the severity of the game's problems - it should be removed from STEAM.

It's a classic lego game of course it's worth it.

Solid puzzle/platformer for all ages. It's mystifying why you have to go through the story before you can select your character -- what's the point of the huge roster if you're locked into the Fellowship for the whole story? But other than that, there's a lot of fun to be had just running around and collecting everything.

I did find that the tone was completely off in some spots. Boromir gets shot with a... Banana? The voice acting actually hurts the cutesy Lego look to this game. Imagine Sean Bean acting his heart out but he's got a goofy cartoon face and a fucking banana sticking out of his chest. I know this is for kids, but it's not like they shy away from violence or death when it happens to other characters. It's just bizarre.

This game adds craftable mythril items that do a combination of silly things or practical things, including character-locked abilities. This makes the character issue even stranger. Regardless, there's a lot of content here even if you're just in it for the story. If you try to 100% it, you could probably double or even triple your time.

Summary: Great ideas and lovely details, overshadowed by jank and bugs. If you're just interested in the story, you'll probably be fine, but anything past that gets tedious.

The game captures the story nicely, the levels are well designed and some care has clearly been put into certain details. Keeping iconic voicelines and scenes from the films is a nice touch, and the opportunity to explore an open world Middle Earth was exciting.

Unfortunately, my experience was badly soured by a pile of inconveniences, mostly affecting the free play mode. If I can't activate an environment element because I don't have the right item equipped, I can't open the item selection menu to equip it because that requires holding the activation button, which immediately results in the character trying (and failing) to activate that element instead, until I walk some distance away. Trying to switch to a different character (by holding the swap button) may instead swap to the other player (potentially eliminating some platforming progress, if the AI decides to jump down). Equipping special items can be frustrating when they're randomly unequipped again later.

Compounding this, a number of bugs added to the annoyance even in story mode. Some platforming challenges feature narrow walkways, which evidently have invisible barriers to prevent falling off, but occasionally prevent me from landing on them in the first place. Several times, glitches put characters or objects beyond reach and forced me to restart levels or even the game. Sometimes, characters seem unable to hit blocks right in front of them. One particular interaction crashed my game twice and two levels broke if you played them a certain way. One achievement had technical issues that required changing display settings.

Individually, these would be minor issues, but collectively they left me with a bad taste for the second half of the game. I pushed for completion anyways, but eventually the novelty wore off and the further I got, the more irritating each occurrence of these issues became. As much as I am a LotR fan and enjoyed Lego Star Wars and Indiana Jones, this one just breaks my heart. I see good intentions in many places, and I feel like the designers put a lot of love into it. I just wish it had the gameplay to match.

One of the better Lego games and a good lotr game too.

8/10 Pretty good.

This game is hilarious. I love that boromir gets killed by a banana.

To bad you cannot buy this game anymore.

7/10 Game soft locked on the last level until I turned on V-sync (???)

You can't go wrong with a classic Lego game. The gameplay is fun, the level design is great, and it feels authentic since they used the voice acting from the movies. I love being able to replay levels after unlocking characters with different abilities.

ciz it`s a great and very fun game.

One game to build them all

The game itself is good, but beware! There are A LOT of frustrating bugs

I absolutely love the Lord of the Rings books, movies, and now this game! I love the open-world style incorporated into a LEGO setting. I love the crafting system which allows players to gather materials and make various tools to complete tasks. I definitely recommend LEGO LotR to fans of the books, the movies, and LEGO games.

Great LEGO game!

absolute masterpiece (with a few imperfections)

Underrated Lego game. Has some bugs, but is easily as good as Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga.

It's the best LEGO game i've ever played. In this one they found the perfect cocktail of gameplay, characters, realisation, storytelling, humour, musics, voice acting... It's just perfect. I totally recommend it, even at full price.


---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☑ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
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☑ 10

Great Lego game. If you've enjoyed other Lego games and like Lord of the Rings you will enjoy this one too.

Very fun game. I am trying to complete the game all 4 save slots with 100% and am about halfway through my third playthrough!

At certain pre-planned points during the rotation of the 3rd planet from the Sun, known as Earth, myself and my companions, will participate in an event known as "trolling", where we attempt to trick people into performing certain humorous actions, such as, but not limited to, clicking a Steam Game which tricks the viewer into watching playing a Lego game based on Peter Jackson's, "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy", released on December 17, 2003, which is known as "Ringrolling" by Internet users. This prankery can be done ironically as a joke, or to genuinely upset the viewer. But one thing that this trickery does, is make the deceptive person laugh, due to the fact that the victim fell for such a humorous prank. For the victim, the deceptive person, known henceforth as the "Gollum", has done something evil, so vile that it makes the victim yell and/or scream in a fit of rage and then repeatedly smash their face and hands against their computer, possibly breaking hundreds of expensive components. But Gollum keeps on laughing, uttering a common phrase used by internet trolls, "U mad bro?"

I'm very biased since I played this game a lot as a kid, but it's one of my favorite Lego games. How can you hate a semi open-world Middle Earth where you can play out one of the most legendary fantasy stories of all time?

The split screen in multi-player is absolute dog wash, though. Other than that, I love this game and I hope you give it a try.

Some people may complain that the best Lord of the Rings game we've ever gotten is a LEGO game, but there is a certain nostalgic charm for me about LEGO games. A must buy for fans of either LEGO or LOTR.

One LOTR game to rule them all,
one LEGO game to find them.
One LOTR to bring them all,
and one LEGO game to bind them.

I would love to say that "Yes, this is a fun and entertaining game that is for all ages" but sadly the game is a buggy mess that are nearly game-breaking. Puzzles that can't be completed because a component start levitating out of reach, wall climbing elements that makes characters jump away from it, the day and night cycle that make some puzzles actually broken (and not in a good way). The fact that if you leave in the middle of the map, the items you've collected will go from 3/3 to 0/3 and will make you unable to collect all the mithril bricks (meaning you won't be able to 100% the game and has to do it all again from the very beginning on a new save)

The inconsistencies are probably the worst part about it all. I've read 12 years old forums about the bugs and they were known even back then and the devs promised to "take care of the bugs" but that still hasn't happened.

So for the many bugs that are in the game, I can't recommend this game.

7/10 Lego game

No Auto-Targeting for Jumps and with the horrendous Lego Camera you sometimes can not see certain Jumps.

But all in all
A fucking Lego game, what do you expect