The Minas Tirith level is one of my favorite, but it is followed by Pelennor Fields (my least favorite - though the battles are challenging and cool). Burnout 3 sounds like a good game - I don't have it, but I may sometime. Yeah, that essay I wrote after being up for two days (an often-occuring thing for me lately - darn insomnia).
On the note about codes - I found some AR-Max codes for The Third Age - they are pretty good, but require a lot of inputting if you don't flash the codes in with a memory device (I forget what they call it). Just go to (www).(codejunkies).(com) - eliminate the parenthesis in that link, for I didn't want to post any direct links. After you are there, click the USA site, then you get to a screen that has a menu bar near the top - it includes 'codes'. Click on codes and then you will see an index going from 0 to 9 and A to Z. Click on L. This will take you to the 'L' game index. This includes Lord of the Rings games. Go to page 2 near the bottom of that page and you will see the second page of 'L' game codes - that includes:
"The Lord of the Rings - The Third Age - Action Replay Max"
Click on that link and you will see over 220 codes for The Third Age - there is no other site that I know of that has The Third Age codes for Playstation 2. I'm assuming you're using PS2 - there is also a GC version if you use that system, but it's not on codejunkies. I have seen GC AR-Max codes for the game and they're not all too different from the PS2 version - but they are different and if you use GameCube, you'll need those codes.
I hope that helps you (if you have AR-Max). There are no in-game cheat code button combinations that I know of - so AR-Max is the only way. The codes work for me. There is one code that isn't complete - it's the Max Spear Craft Codes for Eaoden called "Rampage of Helm". The rest of the Spear Craft codes work. What the skills code allows is for your character to have that skill - every skill is accounted for in the code list. That means you can start a fresh new game with ALL skills if you want - unfortunately, you have to put in many codes to get these skills - choose the skills you want your characters to have (I picked all the goodies when I put in codes for The Third Age - just to save me time because the real good skills and crafts require a lot of time to gain). There are also other codes, such as one that allows your character to have infinite upgrade points - the points you put into character aspects when you get a level up. You get 999 upgrade points - if you use them up, just select another character and then go back to the original and the 999 upgrade points will be back. You know how now you probably have strength for Berethor that is in the 100's - well you can put as many as you want in there - if you like pressing a button 999 times in a row again and again and again! In my game, my characters have around 4000 upgrade points in the strength, spirit, and constitution aspects - with a strength of 4000, a character such as Berethor can completely kill ANY enemy in the game - and that gets him sometimes over a million hp's!!! That's better than any sword can do! The most hp's I ever took off a single foe was 3 million! This doesn't necessarily give you more experience points, but besides, you don't need them if you have 4000 strength!!!
The health value I have for my characters I have already set to around 80,000!!! I've tried to see if any enemy can kill any of my characters and only once did that happen - after an hour of allowing the enemy to continuously attack me. An important note - you don't want to put too many upgrade points into speed or dexterity - if you do, the enemy won't hit your character very often and if you have too much speed (over 200), the enemy will never get a chance to move! That's what the speed does in the game - it gives your character(s) the ability to take a move more often. You want some challenge - for with 80,000 health, you don't really need that much speed and dexterity - a win is almost guaranteed!
General Gaming 
Re: PS2: Lord of the Rings: The Third Age 
Linear Mode
