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After the excellent The Hobbit, Beam Software disappointed its fans with this subpar
adventure that has almost incomprehensible puzzles, grammatical errors, and an
overall drop in quality. It feels almost as if The Hobbit's designers took a long
vacation and left some amateur to finish this game. Good for some amusing moments
and general Tolkienesque nostalgia, but don't expect it to be half as good as its
predecessor. It gets credit, however, for being one of the first computer games that
allow you to play multiple characters, in this case Frodo, Sam, and Pippin. This
interactive fiction (with graphics) based game surround the efforts of the Hobbits:
Frodo, Pippin and Sam and their quest to bring the ring to Mount Doom. The game is
divided into 2 parts (represented by 2 files: DOS version). The first part starts
with Frodo at his home in the Shire, where eventually you will team up with the
other Hobbits Pippin and Sam, as well as Aragorn and Gandalf. From meeting with Tom
Bombadil, the Green Knight, to the Balrog and ending with the Nazgul River incident.
The second part of the game starts with forming of the fellowship, thus adding new
team members: Boromir, Legolas, etc., until the end of the novel. |
