Game Reviews

The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn’s Quest is s new game from HEADSTRONG Games and Warner Bros, a licensed game with the franchise backing of the now classic film trilogy of a decade ago. This game has two key distinguishing characteristics that set it apart from the other games under this brand. One is that it’s designed to be family friendly, which means while you’re butchering countless vicious and snarling goblins, orcs, and Uruk’hai, they won’t bleed. The other is that it follows the story of The Lord of the Rings movies from the perspective of Aragorn, also known as Strider, Elessar, Estel, Heir of Isildur, or as his pastor called him, Mikey.

The idea here is that it’s been fifteen years since the events at the end of Return of the King. Frodo, Bilbo, and the rest have sailed away with the elves. Samwise Gamgee now has a family with that blond hobbit with the long curly hair. This batch of children are sitting on the floor of his home while he reads to them from a book about the adventures of Aragorn. Mixed in between the Aragorn’s Quest chapters are largely optional sections where one of Samwise’s sons, named Frodo of course, runs around a hobbit festival grounds which is being prepared for a visit from the king. This serves as a tutorial area, and the few required portions here are designed to teach you skills you’ll be using in the next chapter of Aragorn’s Quest.