This has got to be one of the first Lord of the Rings games that I have played where you don't actually play the main characters throughout the game. Instead you bear to arms with similar looking companions to the main characters of the LOTR series.

The series itself has been battered to death in its game form. Whenever a movie was released so would the corresponding game. This has caused some of the general gamers to really be ignorant towards the series and I think that perhaps LOTR the third age may just give the glimmer of recognition to the series once again.