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Game Reviews
by Maarten Goldstein, Oct 22, 2002 7:11am PDT- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 on GameSpot. - Ghost Recon: Island Thunder on GameSpy.
- Earth & Beyond Online on Gamers Pulse.
- The Sims Unleashed on C&VG.
- Age of Sail 2: Privateer's Bounty on Game Over.
- Syberia on Video Game News.
- Stronghold: Crusader on Elited.
- Super Bust-A-Move 2 (PS2) on The Laser. - Timesplitters 2 (PS2) on Game Splurge. - Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (PS2) on Game Over.
- Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (Xbox) on GameSpy. - Lord of the Rings (Xbox) on GDXbox.
- Robotech: Battlecry (Xbox) on Game Over.
- Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (GBA) on Game Over. - BloodRayne (Xbox) on HomeLAN Fed.
Comments
Rings is a slow and almost methodical game. Like a big novel, it plods along at a snail's pace at times. In the end, it suffers because it is a ship that can't reach port on either end of the sea. This is the quintessential problem. On the one hand, you have the visceral film experience, which you obviously cannot replicate on this platform; graphics or sound. Furthermore, a laid back and simplified combat system doesn't help pump up the action either. On the other hand, you have a novel that is very detailed, almost too detailed. Rings strikes me as a game where the developers seized on the most immediate details (that of the visual scenery and all the supporting cast) and suddenly lost scope of the entire game. Tolkien's narrative was so dense and thick for them, they could no longer find their way out to see the forest from the trees.
I'm sorry, I laughed.