Raiding bases and taking down warchiefs never gets old, but the story often seems as if it’s actively trying to make you turn the telly off and go for a walk. On the flip side, it fundamentally misunderstands the lore of Middle-earth and succumbs to sameness partway through its runtime. Shadow of Mordor is an excellent game with great world traversal, sleek level design, smooth combat, and a million-dollar idea in the exceptionally clever Nemesis system.
Here it is, the game that way too many people out there would name as top dog in the world of Tolkienian video games. We initially thought about including The Third Age in here somewhere, but then a) remembered how good The Two Towers is and b) decided everyone else should remember how good The Two Towers is, too. Combat revolves around a fluid, hack-and-slash base and the game’s pacing looks like a miracle next to The Fellowship of the Ring. The Two Towers, meanwhile, seamlessly integrated scenes from Jackson’s trilogy into a smart, stylish, and impressively tight follow-up.īeginning and ending at Helm’s Deep, The Two Towers allows you to play all the way from Weathertop to the Battle of the Hornburg as Aragorn, Gimli, or Legolas, with the exception that only Aragorn is playable for the first level. The Fellowship of the Ring was developed by a different studio, came out just a month prior to The Two Towers, and was near universally bashed for how rushed it was. While most fans probably have fond memories of it, it’s worth recalling the context it launched in. Not enough people talk about The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. It’s just a smooth, breezy experience from start to finish, teeming with vibrant versions of beloved characters and all sorts of blocky belligerence. Perhaps the best thing about Lego The Lord of the Rings is also the best thing about most Lego games: it’s approachable for everyone without being patronising to anyone. Lego The Lord of the Rings is no different, tastefully capturing the mood and atmosphere of Peter Jackson’s iconic trilogy while injecting its own sense of humor into it. In general, Lego games are extremely good at understanding their source material – there’s a reason Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has seen such extensive delays to ensure it’s as good as it can be. Yes, my dear Frodo, Lego The Lord of the Rings is a superior game to Shadow of War. It strikes a wonderful balance of being tactile and intuitive and uses the Nemesis system established in the first game to excellent effect, but it’s also probably the reason Monolith is working on Wonder Woman instead of Shadow of Whatever Comes After War, Which Apparently Comes After Mordor. While Shadow of War was Monolith’s second stab at Middle-earth, its overabundant microtransactions and increasingly listless storytelling really hold it back. Shadow of War is a very good game that is markedly inferior to its predecessor – spoiler, Mordor is on this list too. “Boo!” you shout, purely based on the fact that Shadow of War is a relatively flashy looking game compared to some of the older Lord of the Rings titles. See? We’re definitely the right people to be handling this list. Tolkien originally wanted The Lord of the Rings to be one manuscript divided into six parts and the final trilogy is still formatted that way even if it’s technically split into three different physical books. We’ve gone with six entries to match the six books in the trilogy.Īnd yes, we can count. For the sake of brevity, we’re going to focus purely on the very best Lord of the Rings games and rank them to find the one game to rule them all.
Fair enough!ĭespite the amount of Tolkien gameses that have broken their footses off Uruk-hai helmetses – ok, we’ll stop with the Gollum talk – there have also been some real Stings and Glamdrings in the rough. War in the North wasn’t quite as bad as many people made it out to be, but, er… well, we didn’t finish it either. Infamous flops in Middle-earth include games like The Lord of the Rings: Conquest, The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn’s Quest, and an especially ill-advised GBA adaptation of Tolkien’s beloved Fellowship of the Ring. The problem is that the vast majority of them aren’t very good. These range from sizable triple-A efforts to Flash games, to mobile trivia quizzes and everything in between.
While many of them aren’t particularly well known, there are almost 50 video games based on J.R.R.
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