The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest
The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest for the PS3 and Wii tells the story of Aragorn during the War of the Ring. Samwise Gamgee is narrating, and recalls the story to entertain his children who want to hear…
The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest is an adventure developed by Headstrong Games, released 14 September 2010 on PlayStation 3 and Wii.
What The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest is
The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest is an adventure game developed by Headstrong Games and released in 2010. It was published by WB Games. It is available on PlayStation 3 and Wii.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The war for Middle Earth may have ended in The Lord of the Rings, but the scars left by the Dark Lord Sauron run deep. The epic tale of swords, sorcery, kings and kinship are renowned, and while that adventure is done it's not quite time to turn the page just yet... The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest takes place 15 years after the events of the original story, transporting you to the peaceful Shire of the Hobbits. Samwise Gamgee, loyal friend to the story's lead character Frodo Baggins, is now Mayor of the Shire. Taking a break from preparing for a visit from King Aragorn, Sam retells the eventful journey across Middle Earth to his children, focusing on how Aragorn became king. Sam…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Lord of the Rings series
The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest is the 37th of 69 entries we hold in the The Lord of the Rings series. The next entry was The Lord of the Rings Online: Rise of Isengard in 2011. Its critic score of 63 is 11 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring at 91.
How it was received
The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 22% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 7 points below the year average.
What it launched against
The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest launched on 14 September 2010, within three weeks of Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Pokémon Black Version. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Pokémon Black Version.
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