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Lord of the Rings: The Third AgeWith every Lord of the Rings movie release comes a videogame rendition. But the trilogy's over; Electronic Arts intends to keep the momentum of the J.R.R. Tolkien series going in videogame form with The Third Age, the company's first original game based on the collective three films. On the console Electronic Arts went with a role-playing adventure, but for Game Boy Advance audiences we get a turn-based strategy that owes a lot of its design elements to Intelligent Systems' Fire Emblem series. Just because it's based on a hit design doesn't make the copycat an instant success. It's at the very least a challenging, slightly altered take on the turn-based strategy genre with lots of references to the film that'll please the LOTR fanbase, but The Third Age can't come anywhere close to Fire Emblem's appeal because of its clumsy interface and sluggish missions.
The Third Age gives players the opportunity to "act out" battle sequences either within the books or film, or inspired by situations from the series spread out along the three novels. Players can either side with good or evil, and they'll earn specific experience points on either side of the spectrum if certain good or bad criteria happen within the mission. For The Third Age, Griptonite strayed from its past two LOTR games' action-focused design and went in a completely d
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