This was a really fun game! It's set up differently from most other Lego games. The hub is more open world like in Lego Batman 2, not an inclosed space like the cantina in the Lego Star Wars games.

Though the characters may only be a few centimetres tall, the LEGO games have been getting gradually bigger and bigger each year. LEGO Harry Potter invited players to roam freely around a dinky plastic Hogwarts, and this year's LEGO Batman 2 not only offered the chance to take to the skies as...

The biggest; most ambitious LEGO game ever; Utterly true to Tolkien's world; Weeks and weeks of gameplay

Some of the platform jumping can be frustrating; Younger children may need more help than usual; Keeping track of quests could be easier

Little known fact: The first Xbox game which I ever achieved 1000/1000 was Lego Indiana Jones (the original, not the one that contained the film which shall not be named), and I did that because I loved the game so much I wanted to have everything. I think Lego LOTR tops that game for me though.

is a case of, 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it - just make it better'. Travellers Tales pretty much nailed this format all the way back with

In theory, it sounds like a good concept. However, the uninspiring objectives instill a desperate tedium: capturing and defending an area (standing near a flag and bashing any enemy that comes your way for a certain amount of time); killing a certain key character; destroying giant weapons and guard...

Lego The Lord of the Rings is the best Lego so far, Middle-Earth is great to explore and new elements like side-quests and forging items are added, but maybe the Lego games need to change as the formula is looking a bit tired.

My last adventure with a LEGO based video game was the extremely disappointing PS Vita port of LEGO Batman 2 , so it was with great pleasure that I installed my PC based copy of LEGO The Lord of the Rings knowing that I would be getting the experience I missed with the handheld version of Batman in...

In other LEGO reconstruction, "Travellers Tales" goes to the depths of Mordor to take on the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. One ring, one block, and one of the most celebrated fantasy stories of all time.

Another faithful LEGO-rendition; Middle-Earth has been Legoized, More depth has been added to the standard gameplay, Clever writing and use of the source material, No "milking" here – the entire trilogy is represented

While interesting; the sandbox style takes away its pick-up-and-play appeal; Still some ongoing gameplay qualms; Middle-Earth isn't as visually vibrant as other "Lego" titles

The Lord of the Rings, it turns out, is the perfect source material for a Lego game. A story in which small things turn out to hold great power and small people prove to have enormous courage, the core ideas of inverted scale that have made TT Games' series so popular are woven through Tolkien's...