The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - PC

Well, I was looking forward to checking this game out, but I ran into a few problems along the way. The game came in an older style box with a CD style case holding two CDs. (one install and one play.) It installed on my Win 10 Pro system without a problem, but that's the last thing that was problem free. I'm aware that running older games, etc. on a newer OS can cause problems but I've found, that with a bit of work, you can find solutions to the problems for most games. (If not the original game then a port that will work.) I opened the configuration util and set the items for my system and it took me to a web site no longer in use and a drive by malware attack took place that caused me to close the system down for protection sake. After that, when I first tried to launch the game I got the black screen and that was it. I had to Ctrl-Alt-Del to close the game as it took control of my mouse and wouldn't let me close it. After this happened two more times, I decided to uninstall the game. I couldn't find an uninstall setting in windows programs settings and I ran the games uninstaller instead and it went really fast. As is my normal procedure, I checked to see if the removal had worked correctly. Guess what....No dice. game was still there. So I had to uninstall the game by brute force approach and that's always not good. After getting rid of the left overs, I decided to look for ways to run it before reinstalling it. After checking out a Google search, I found that this was not a isolated thing and a lot of people ran into this. I also found that a program could be used to get the game up and running. So I got the program and, following the instructions, tried to run the game. First time it failed and the black screen was back. Second time the game did run but was blinking so much as to be totally unplayable. I tried a number of options under the program but with no success. After that I tried a number of shortcut settings but no luck. At the end, I had to admit this game wasn't going to run for me at this time and so that's how I came out. I wasn't able to really see how good the game really was as it just wouldn't run.. Very sad. (One bright spot on this was the fact that on the second installation the installer DID properly create an "uninstall item" in the Windows Programs item so it uninstalled correctly.)

The Fellowship of the Ring is not the best all-around game. It suffers from severe camera issues from time to time and some repetitive game play. But, as a very big Lord of the Rings fan I thoroughly enjoy playing through this game's story. Even if you have seen the movies it feels like you are discovering Middle-Earth for the first time. Everything is a fresh interpretation from the movies' version of Middle-Earth. I love the movies a great deal, but the game versions of the movie don't do much to draw me into the world of Middle-Earth. It is fun to control Legolas, Gimli, and Aragorn, as well as other characters in the Return of the King game. But, the atmosphere of The Fellowship of the Ring by Vivendi is especially rewarding for those who have read the books. I don't have much else to say except that, if you are familiar with the Lord of the Rings book trilogy, I am confident you will enjoy this game. Not because of the groundbreaking gameplay, or because you get to control your favorite characters. But, because you will feel drawn into the world of Middle-Earth by this 3rd person RPG adventure game.

Box was teared at upper lid. It was only defect on whole package. CD's was almost unused and not has any stracthes on it. Thankk you!

Slightly bummed it did not come with the box. Just the packaged disc. And the disc case was cracked. But the game works!

I have played the game before and it is a lot of fun, however, the game has refused to run on my current system(sli configuration) and this could be my computer's fault as well as running Vista operating system.

I like the adventure and problem solving part of the game. I just think it goes too quickly. I got through it in a few days. Fun though.

It's a little hard to get things going but once you do, it takes off quickly from there! If you're a Lord of the Rings fan and you like games, you'll love this one !!

love this game! havent been able to find it anywhere