Okay if you like hack and slash without much of a storyline. Not okay if what you want is a real role-playing game like Baldur's Gate. I like R.A. Salvatore's novels also. I was expecting a bit more of a role-playing game as opposed to a strictly linear hack n' slash game. This is much like the LoTR movie-based game that came out at about the same time as the 3rd movie, IIRC.