
You make your way through dungeons, traverse mountains and search caves for valuable treasure in environments laid out in tube-like sections without any notable freedom of movement. Hostile orcs always show up the same way, in a predictable pre-defined pattern. There is no chapter selection option, but you can return to previously visited locations via designated waypoints marked on a world map. The three adventurers’ journey leads them through eight chapters in The Lord of the Rings: War in the North. Together the heroes forge their own pact and contribute to the ringbearer’s success through their fearless attacks.\n

Even before the two involuntary heroes Frodo and Sam start off for the Dancing Pony Inn, the elf Andriel, human Eradan and dwarf Farin meet there in the pouring rain. In The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, players are immersed in a storyline that runs parallel to the beginning of the well-known Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
