Topic "camera angle"

I have long been a big fan of Lego games for the Wii. And I always find it amazing how the makers of these games make it, the mood of the films on which they are based, capture, which of course has to do with it significant that the original film music is always used! That's even with Lego LoTR again the case, and you feel from the moment you set in the scenery of the films!

At the present time I have played through the game only to 16.4%, so I can not really make any conclusive judgment. Some things, however, are also already struck me. You may be here the tiresome and already frequently cited issue call to "camera view". It is indeed so that the AI ​​(called "Artificial Intelligence") quite often slips up here and the player offers a perspective that, to put it mildly, very little is helpful ... but there is a solution to this problem !

Unfortunately, and this must be critical note towards Nintendo or WB Games, which indeed bring out these games, this solution manual but does not go out to the extremely meager forth! This is designed, in fact, very carelessly in black and includes just 6 pages. The remaining blank pages of the booklet are only labeled "notes". In any case, the automatic camera angle at any time be corrected manually using the directional pad of the Wii Remote! It took me a few gray hairs, until I came to the trick, even though I was this "trick" already known from other Wii games ago actually. But since I came to the former, I clearly more fun the game again as already!

A small criticism I have, however, also attach still: Sometimes the game design is actually artificially protracted. So you have to travel some pretty long distances to get to the next "of use". While this corresponds entirely to the "Tolkien philosophy" (who has read the books knows what I'm talking about), but sometimes just a little annoying, especially since the figures are indeed not the allerflinkesten if you're not a horse or a have another "means of transportation" available. Also, some sequences are quite lengthy (one could also say: "tolkienesque"), as for example, the "flight from the Black Riders" in the swamps, where endless lurches from island to island.. As I said, it works sometimes very constructed, especially since other passages in the films (of the books I do not even want to talk) take much longer to complete, were partially accelerated and shortened. So to me seems somehow inconsistent. Because "Material" the Tolkien template provides a truth well enough! ;)

It also happens sometimes that you stand somewhat at a loss, because it apparently does not go on at one point. Again, it took me a little time and nerves, until I understood that I can "jump back and forth" between the parallel scenes by I select the corresponding characters. At this point a small (visual) assistance might have been not bad ...

Of these small flaws apart, the TT Games people a successful Games adaptation is but how do I find again a success! I love the game anyway a lot of fun, if only because I was so happy to hear the music of the films and because I like the "schmunzeligen" Humor their Lego counterparts find just totally cuddly. ;)

From me, saying a strong buy recommendation for fans of LoTR and the colorful blocks from Denmark! :)