After all, this is a LEGO game - most of your time will be spent smashing things up in the levels, or riding pigs around the Shire - you don't have that much time for plot development, even though it's an essential part of Lord of the Rings. The whole gang have been a thorough LEGO makeover.Īs mentioned earlier, Tolkien's epics were sprawling, and often confusing tomes, which could easily be expected to cause problems in a game like this. The answer, it seems, is by creating the best LEGO game yet. After all, the films themselves were nigh on three hour opuses, so how could they possibly hope to fit all the plot, characters, and world onto a disc, and still have a game anyone, regardless of their experience with the game can appreciate. With high standards to live up to - every past LEGO game had been almost unbelievably brilliant (with the slight blip of LEGO Indiana Jones 2), it's safe to say LEGO Lord of the Rings was developer Traveller's Tales biggest challenge yet.
The latest in a long series of franchises to receive a thorough brickification, LEGO Lord of the Rings attempts to take everything Tolkien, and cram it onto one, small, plasticy disc. Practically defining the fantasy genre for decades to come, the Lord of the Rings was as groundbreaking as it was complex, with dozens, if not hundreds of characters, factions, sub-plots, and lands crammed into an already massive tome. There are few things, whether in the world of film or books, as epic as the Lord of the Rings trilogy. One ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them. One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them.