{"id":122,"date":"2003-10-01T23:42:06","date_gmt":"2003-10-01T22:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2007-09-11T07:10:41","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T06:10:41","slug":"the-lord-of-the-rings-the-two-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/10\/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-two-towers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lord of the Rings &#8211; The Two Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"red\">XBox<\/font>,<font color=\"orange\">Hack&#038;Slash<\/font>,<font color=\"green\">5\/10<\/font> &#8211; <u>September 2003<\/u><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/GameReviewImages\/LOTRTheTwoTowers.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nThis game takes scenes from the 1st two LOTR&#8217;s films and turns them into interactive battles. Each scene blends with DVD film footage smoothly and impressively. I think they did a great job of doing what they intended i.e. creating a film\/video game couple however I didn&#8217;t like it at all.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Without having seen the two films I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;d have no idea what&#8217;s going on. I view it as lazy game design, i.e. there is no design, they just took a bunch of interesting scenes and converted them into a bunch of levels where you battle your way to the boss, find it&#8217;s weakness and beat it. There&#8217;s no lull in the action, you finish a scene and save the game and then go straight into the next scene. I&#8217;m wondering why I don&#8217;t like the constant action. I think it&#8217;s because it&#8217;s too linear, there&#8217;s no chance to explore the scenery, no options, no build-up and it&#8217;s all too rushed. Without time and freedom the game doesn&#8217;t add to the LOTR&#8217;s world and so is disappointing  even though the technology of the programming is of a high standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XBox,Hack&#038;Slash,5\/10 &#8211; September 2003 This game takes scenes from the 1st two LOTR&#8217;s films and turns them into interactive battles. Each scene blends with DVD film footage smoothly and impressively. I think they did a great job of doing what they intended i.e. creating a film\/video game couple however I didn&#8217;t like it at all. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}