The perfect game to play after watching the movie.
The presentation is excellent. This game is THX certified, and has great visuals for PS2. It also does an excellent job of bringing the lord of the rings universe to the game world. Other than the stupid cut scenes that are just tacked on bits from the movie itself, the actual gameplay is a perfect recreation.
The Gameplay is great too. It's a beat-em-up game, and it has a cool feature. There's this hit meter that increases every time you hit an enemy, the higher the meter is when you kill each enemy, the better your kill rating. It goes fair, good, excellent, and perfect. You have to be quick though, because while you are not hitting enemies, your hit meter goes down, and you will lose momentum so you have to keep hitting! If you get it all the way up to perfect, it stays there for a few seconds, and you can get a lot of experience points for doing this. It's kind of a short game though, so I think it would be better for a rental, it took me about 10 hours to beat it. It does have a Co-Op mode though, which can be pretty fun. Remember when Legolas and Gimli were counting how many kills they were getting? Well, this game has a kill counter so when in Co-Op mode you can expierience that in the game. It's definitely worth a rental, i suggest you do a game/movie thing where you watch the movie, and then play the game. Your LOTR desires will be fulfilled trust me.