Lord of the Ring: The Third Age on ps2, gc, og xbox and gba was turn based rpg were you follow behind film trilogy crew with your own team with og characters that you level up as well as sometimes intertwining with straight-up movie scenes and fighting alongside film characters. Most interesting factoid about this game is that plot ends up being junky and awkward with it's b-side following of main story and that is due to the developers really wanting to make their game be based on books, but they ended up stuck with films license. It makes this game have wasted potential that I think could really shine based on the love for source material spilling out of the screen with for example item descriptions (really dark-soulsesque) tackling grander book lore and references. Case of this game makes me sad as we never got actual book based game that could cover events omitted in the movies. Oh what we could have...
