Licensed games often get the same kind of scorn we reserve for licensed, coffee mugs, posters and duvet covers. Lord Of The Rings: The Third Age, is a like a Lord Of The Rings coffee mug, but with a picture of some bloke called Berethor on it instead of Gandalf.

No one expects licensed games to be original and we barely expect them to be fun. To be sure, Lord Of The Rings: The Third Age is anything but original.