Lord of the Rings: Game One

Lord of the Rings: Game One (released in North America as The Fellowship of the Ring: A Software Adventure) is a computer game released in 1985 and based on the book The Fellowship of the Ring, by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was the follow-up to the 1982 game The Hobbit, but did not reach the same level of critical and commercial success as its predecessor. It's generally considered inferior by the gaming community, with many complaining about the removal of the real-time aspects and complex AI patterns of the previous game, and puzzles that lacked coherent solutions.

For the 2002 game, see The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game).
Lord of the Rings: Game One
Commodore 64 cover art
Developer(s)Beam Software
Publisher(s)Melbourne House
Designer(s)Philip Mitchell
Platform(s)ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, BBC Micro, Dragon 32/64, Apple II, Apple Macintosh, MS-DOS.[1]
Release1985
Genre(s)Text adventure
Mode(s)Single player

Reception

Macworld reviewed the Macintosh versions of The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring and The Shadows of Mordor simultaneously, criticizing The Hobbit, calling it "particularly clumsy" as it is "handicapped by a 400-word input vocabulary" as opposed to the latter two games' 800 words. Macworld calls The Fellowship of the Ring "particularly intricate" and recommends it as an entry point to the series as opposed to The Hobbit. Macworld praises The Hobbit's graphics, but states that in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Shadows of Mordor "the art adds little to the games' overall appeal." Furthermore, Macworld heralds the three games as "literate and faithful in spirit to original books", but criticizes the dated and "rigid" nature of the text-adventure format.[2]

See also

References
  1. Tolkien computer games pages
  2. McCandless, Keith (May 1989). "New Hobbits For Old". Macworld. Mac Publishing. p. 209.
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