2003 was for Tolkien fans a special year. By THE RETURN OF THE KING THE LORD OF THE RINGS found the trilogy to an end. While the films enjoyed great success from the audience as well the critics, the fandom was also a huge range of merchandise items "happy". There was an interesting phenomenon. On one side there were the things the official licenses of the film series as a background had. Some companies were quite refined been had, whistled on the expensive rights of films and secured by the estate of author JRR Tolkien's rights for the books. They were cheaper and you could still ride with the wave of success of the films. So it was that the software company Electronic Arts, the official games presented to the cinema fun while rival Sierra also the LORD OF THE RINGS served clientele - but without the design to music, etc. can access the films. But we also had all the background that was missing in the film rights are available. And so we published in 2003 THE HOBBIT - THE BACKGROUND TO THE LORD OF THE RINGS on PC, PS2, Xbox, Gamecube and Game Boy Advance.
The Hobbit is actually a youth novel, Tolkien published in 1937, and settled in his conceived by him to the fictional mythology of Middle-earth continents. The book's success encouraged him to write a sequel. THE LORD OF THE RINGS was released after years of fine work in 1954 and was much more than a continuation of the story, which was commenced in the HOBBIT. Nevertheless, the relatively light reading is a must of every Tolkien fans, but is told here, as the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf the magician makes the disgusting creature Gollum and steals the magic ring:
"By the power of Graysk ... uh ... wrong film ..." One day the magician Gandalf appears in front of the cozy hobbit-hole of Mr. Bilbo Baggins. In its wake, a whole bunch of dwarfs, which are on the way to the Lonely Mountain, where the evil dragon Smaug to the treasure hunt to their forefathers. They need the help of a clever thief. Gandalf to Bilbo's surprise, praises him as exactly such a - and that's where Bilbo hates adventure and would rather stay home. Nevertheless, he follows a previously successfully fought off wanderlust and accompanied the dwarves on their long and dangerous journey. This If you encounter elves, orcs, giant spiders and dragons said, until the hobbit finds, finally, between three armies that want to fight each other on the blood.
Sierra obviously had prior to emphasize the magical character of their source material. And how to do better at video games than to serve in the biggest role models. THE HOBBIT is in essence that is no more than a kind of THE LEGEND OF ZELDA. You control Bilbo in a rear view of the fantastic places from Tolkien's creation, use objects, fighting nasty villains and solve puzzles that are usually limited to simple or switch puzzles. Unlike Zelda has it to do the Hobbit but not with a large, free to explore the world. The individual sections are presented for action in the form of levels. In addition, the platforming portion was increased, so that SUPER MARIO Greetings from 64th To add insult to refine something, you also added a dash of role-playing. By collecting crystals growing experience Bilbo. Climb to reaching certain experience levels to improve the combat skills and their own life energy to grow. Practical.
It reads quite well, and the fact it is. No more, no less. Since then it has to be a hit but not quite enough, because the Hobbit suffers from a variety of childhood illnesses. Above all, here the sometimes strange collision detection and above all the stubborn camera may be mentioned, which can be readjusted, but yet again creating problems just jump out at events. But the struggles make great fun and the incentive to develop your character as much as possible motivated to explore the sometimes rather twisty part of complete levels. Less attractive is that the plot is told is very fragmented. Those who know the book know exactly where he is now, all others are likely to occur now and then lost. Moments like this are playing hide from the trolls or the encounter with Smaug staged grippingly.
"Troll done!" (Seufz. ..) shows Technically, the Hobbit mixed. While the music is superb and holds many Ohrwuermer, and the German dubbing was done at the highest level (Bastian Pastewka lends Bilbo his voice - a fact that is mentioned on the covers of the console versions not a word!), The graphics are indeed colorful but it often on the N64 level. Particularly unpleasant is noticeable that some objects are only in 2D. Since Gamecube, PS2 and Xbox were still at more length.
Tolkien fans and lovers of action-adventure, the next Zelda on the part and wait again want to use the backward compatibility of their Wii can access here if you do not expect a game of epic proportions. I can guarantee you a few hours of fun. People who usually have with hobbits and orcs not care, must check them once, even if they can certainly not be as much pull as the former.
PS: The GBA version of the game is completely different from the PC and console versions, and certainly will one day be presented here as well.
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