No more rewinding your DVD and replaying it over and over, or watching the same You Tube clip. Oh, and you remember that really neat scene in An Unexpected Journey when the dwarves are doing synchronised blacksmithing? You can stand back and watch that for as long as you like.
As with all previous LEGO games, however, your companions each have a different ability and you will need them to work together in order to progress. On one occasion, I had to switch Thorin’s sword for an Axe in order to break through some debris. The character wheel seems to take cues from TT’s previous interpretation of Lord of the Rings, giving the player an option to open an inventory through a backpack and select different weapons and items. Scenes are even filled with background dwarves doing very dwarf-like things, be it eating, mining, drinking, sleeping or standing guard while fighting amongst themselves. From stone steps, to large raging furnaces and oversized corridors, Erebor is brick-by-brick marvellous. Traveller’s Tales have really studied Jackson’s vision and read Tolkein’s works intently as the kingdom towers majestically and is full to the brim with subtle details and fine touches. Wonderfully, the game seems as if it will allow us to explore this beautiful kingdom before it crumbles. We start the game controlling Thorin and Thrain in a scene that is only really touched upon in the films. The game starts off in much the same way as the films – Bilbo recollects his earlier adventures through his memoirs, but first introducing us to the dwarves of Erebor prior to the mighty Smaug assuming the Dwarven kingdom – and all its treasure – for his own. A someone known as Gandalf the Grey who is giving us all a cheeky ‘peek-a-boo’ – That sneaky spell-caster. Except, it’s not us distracting the senior Baggins from his quill, rather it’s the light coming through the window that is constantly being blocked out by someone. At the title screen, we’re roving through the corridors of Bag-End, watching Frodo traipse around reading mail and sneaking up on Bilbo who is trying to write his memoirs. Right off the bat, the humour is in full-force. However, with new characters created especially for the films, as well as links to the appendices synching up with the events in the book, Jackson has proven once again to any would-be doubters that he knows exactly what he’s doing when it comes to all things Tolkein.Īnd with two of the three films now behind us, there just so happens to be enough content for a full-length LEGO interpretation. When Peter Jackson said he was going to split the 320 page The Hobbit into three, full-length feature films, there was naturally some trepidation. This offers unique content for the reader so they can come to understand the conflicting feelings of the reviewer as they’re playing a game for the very first time. As We Play offers the thought strands of the reviewer as they’re going through the game.
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