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Timesplitters: Future Perfect

The BBC has reviewed the excellent new first-person shooter Timesplitters: Future Perfect.

I have the original and never really got on with it, but this one sounds much better. For some odd reason, the first Timesplitters gave me motion sickness!!

Source: BBC

The Lord Of The Rings Games

There's a pretty informative article here about 'The Lord of the Rings' games, from the role-playing The Lord of the Rings:TheThird Age to the realtime strategy The Battle for Middle Earth.

The article briefly touches on the brilliant games for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

My review for The Two Towers game can be found here.

Source: BBC

Freedom Force vs. The 3rd Reich

The BBC reviewed a game for the PC called Freedom Force vs. The 3rd Reich.
They gave it a pretty good review and judging by the gameplay and screenshots might be one worth buying.

I've linked to it here.

Source: BBC

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

For those of you familiar with 'The Lord of the Rings', the story and graphics are based on the recent film trilogy.

The graphics are amazing and the gameplay is relentless. The attacks from the growing numbers of enemy, as you progress, just don't let up.

The images, visuals and sounds are impressive enough on my poxy pre-90's television, but I imagine the whole experience to be even more impressive on a widescreen or LCD display and surround sound system.

After the initial first two levels, the game opens up, and you can play each mission as either Aragorn, Legolas or Gimli. The aim is to progress through each level, of which there are around 12, as you accrue mission experience and can purchase upgrades. The upgrades consist of increasingly more powerful and deadly attack modes, combos and weapons.

As your mission experience increases, so you unlock more advanced levels of experience before you save, where you can purchase upgrades. Once you get to Level 10, you can go head to head with the Tower of Orthanc level, consisting of 20 platforms of increasing difficulty, as you work your way up to the top of the tower of Orthanc.

Once completed, the game unlocks around 5 different cheat codes which give you a range of different advantages over your enemies.

The enemies are well thought out and faithful to the film/book. You go up against Cave Trolls, Orcs and Urak-hai.

A lot of time and trouble has gone into this game, and, from what I've read, the sequel, 'The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King' game, is just as excellent.

For a change, this is a movie spin-off that is actually as good as the it's source material, and if you've seen the films, you'll unbderstand that is quite an achievement.

To find out more about 'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers' game, click here.

My rating;

9/10.