
At the beginning of the game, (spoiler alert) your entire family kicks the bucket, including you. As a ranger, you are assigned to the Black Gate with your family, to keep an eye on those pesky orcs in Mordor. In the game you play a Gondorian ranger named Talion in the years leading up to the War of the Ring (shorthand or the events of the books in The Lord of the Rings). Monolith Studio's Lord of the Rings: Shadow of Mordor is the first on our list and arguably one of the best things to ever come from the LOTR mythos. Anduril for the West! Guthwine for the Mark! 15 So let's don our Gondorian goose-fletched arrow quiver and our Lothlorien cloak of semi-invisibility and get into it - here are the 8 Best and the 7 Worst The Lord of the Rings games on the market. I'm here to help you break them down - so you never make the wrong choice again. If making Lord of the Rings games was popular before, things went into overdrive afterward.Īs with most video games series or franchises, there are winners and losers - some great titles, and some that you ought to avoid at all costs (or risk your own sanity).


His vision for a trilogy for The Lord of the Rings was loved worldwide, and the Return of the King even went on to win a jaw-dropping eleven Oscars at the 2004 Academy Awards - including Best Picture. Many have tried in the subsequent years, some have succeeded.Īnd then there came Peter Jackson.

J.R.R Tolkien was the man who started it all, writing the original books in the fifties, and before there was even a whiff of a live-action film in the works, folks had already tried to make a buck by turning his series into a game.

We're all familiar with The Lord of the Rings, whether it be in a book or film form.
