Wednesday, October 10, 2007

The Hobbit Video Game

This is the video game "The Hobbit" and, as you might guess, it is based upon J.R.R. Tolkien's novel. The different levels in the video game have the same names as some of the chapters, ranging from "An Unexpected Party" to "The Clouds Burst." The game takes eleven of the most significant chapters and adds creatures, quests and such into them to make them challenging and playable. As you can guess, it is a one-player thing with Bilbo Baggins as the playable character. One day Gandalf the wizard comes to his hobbit-hole and offers him the chance to embark upon the greatest adventure ever. He politely declines but invites Gandalf to tea the next day, and along with the wizard come thirteen hungry dwarves. And you know the rest of it. He goes on a wonderful adventure and comes home with two chests and a few bags of gold and silver, and a magic ring. The levels in the game focus on getting a main quest done to finish them, such as rescuing the dwarves from the giant spiders. Along the way you can acquire certain objects to help you with this, one being the ring. You also have other smaller quests to complete, some required and some optional, along with courage points, little and large colored diamonds, which increase your health. But don't let me spoil it all for you. Go buy the game yourself!


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