The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

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by EA Redwood Shores, Aspyr Media, Electronic Arts

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Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Legacy Mobile Device Show more

Genres:Adventure, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up

Themes:Action, Fantasy

Game modes:Single player, Co-operative, Multiplayer

Story:

The video game adaption of the acclaimed film of the same name. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a follow up the well received adaption of the first two films in the trilogy. The game expands on what The Two Towers accomplished, with the action and adventure sequel introducing three separate story lines from the movie: one following Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli, as The Two Towers did, another following Gandalf, and a third following Frodo and Sam, with Merry, Pippin, and Faramir serving as unlockable characters. Gameplay features were also expanded upon, including multiplayer. Show more

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Ironicamente eu conheci os filmes de O Senhor dos Anéis por ter jogado o jogo LOTR Fellowship of the Ring, então vi que este título estava disponível para computador e se tornou um dos jogos que eu mais joguei na minha infância. Combate sensacional, estilo artístico e similaridade com o filme muito bem feitos, vozes dos atores reais, dinâmica de cenas do filme se transformando no jogo, tudo extremamente bem feito e memorável, muito melhor e diferente dos jogos de hoje em dia. O que eu mais gostaria de ter é uma forma oficial e dentro da legalidade de adquirir esse jogo e ter a garantia de que ele será verdadeiramente meu no momento da aquisição, e claro, ter acesso irrestrito para eu poder baixar quando eu quiser. De preferência que seja adicionado a opção de salvar o progresso na nuvem.Juan_Cipollone

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@Juan_Cipollone

April 29, 2025

Ironicamente eu conheci os filmes de O Senhor dos Anéis por ter jogado o jogo LOTR Fellowship of the Ring, então vi que este título estava disponível para computador e se tornou um dos jogos que eu mais joguei na minha infância. Combate sensacional, estilo artístico e similaridade com o filme muito bem feitos, vozes dos atores reais, dinâmica de cenas do filme se transformando no jogo, tudo extremamente bem feito e memorável, muito melhor e diferente dos jogos de hoje em dia. O que eu mais gostaria de ter é uma forma oficial e dentro da legalidade de adquirir esse jogo e ter a garantia de que ele será verdadeiramente meu no momento da aquisição, e claro, ter acesso irrestrito para eu poder baixar quando eu quiser. De preferência que seja adicionado a opção de salvar o progresso na nuvem.

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@maximus749

May 01, 2025

Probably the best movie tie-in I've ever played. Played it on the PC back in 2003, later on the Xbox, and I still come back to it from time to time. I've often wished for another action RPG, not necessarily LOTR-themed, with the same cinematic third-person camera and the same combat mechanics. It's a pretty unique and addictive take on hack-and-slash action. The sound, music, and visuals have held up well. It's a short game, but worthwhile for fans of the films, and just a ton of fun in its own right.

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@GothicSavage

May 10, 2025

This game is part of me. When I was playing with my cousin at The Southern Gate, my mum entered home with a dog in her hands. It was a puppy that then stayed with us for its whole life. Mum asked me how we should call him. In that moment I was playing Legolas, but in Polish, golas means naked, so I had to choose the second best, and it was Frodo. I still have a painting of me and my Frodo on the wall. I remember that we were so into this game that when my controller broke, my cousin played on keyboard and I played on a racing wheel.

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@bercniter

May 10, 2025

My first video game. I'll never forget the experience of opening the case and excitedly reading the manual on the way back home in my parents' car, or beating it in co-op with my cousin —me as Aragorn and him as Legolas.

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@Trigarion

July 09, 2025

I remember coming over to a friend house and getting to beat this game up XD back in the day where you got games on disks and had sleep overs to hammer out new ones. I remember loving this game, it was pretty simple but really fun. In a modern sense it's a little bit anime how all the character can deflect arrows with their weapons. It's also very fun how Each character has different combo limits and special skill associated with them. I remember loving playing Aragorn cause he had the longest combo only to find out, the character with the most powerful combo is actually Sam! Same gets mad respect in this game as being a melee Juganaught! The reason being him and Frodo are the only characters in their segement where as you have Eragorn, Legolas and Gimli with the ocational Gandalf. I really hope this comes to GOG! I'd love to replay and own this game, plus it's hard to find the old LotR games these days!

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@BeerGogglesFTW

July 09, 2025

Shame Two Towers was never released on PC. I'd love to have both on PC. I imagine this game is locked behind some legal rights that make it unavailable for GOG to gain access to the digital rights. I wish them luck and hope they pursue getting this game on GOG.

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@Moviemind1

July 10, 2025

One of the greatest games ever made. Simple. Fun. Everything you could want from a Middle-Earth adventure. The Howard Shore film score is perfectly integrated. The controls feel excellent (expecially once they're mapped the way you want them). The visuals, while certainly of their era, still hold up today. My brother and I spent many hours playing this as kids. We know all the spots to grind for XP, which upgrades to get first and which will make the strongest characters OP. We know what it's like to brave the Paths of the Dead 3 times in a row, perfectly spacing out encounters so we can maximize our score for the level. We know the joyous challenge of parrying half a dozen very aggressive Uruk-Hai while desperately waiting for that one teeny-tiny orc to man up and hit us already because the only insta-kill move we have unlocked is Orc Bane and gosh darn it we refuse to slay these Uruk-Hai without having Perfect Mode on! If this game is ever revived on GOG, I will purchase it Day One at full price.

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@Wolf91kev

July 10, 2025

My first game on xbox and played it with my sister, were wonderful times, awesome game, I would like to play it again!!!, I asked this game along my xbox because of the movie and sure a big fan of LOTR movies I love them, it has a solid combat gameplay very fun to play and more awesome on playing with someone else so that is the main reason makes it so special and if you GOG bring it to your catalog would be an instant purchased because I would like to remember the good old days so that its the reason this game will be always one of my favorites.

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@Bradmango

July 11, 2025

As a child I played this over and over. In my opinion the best lord of the rings game they have made. The way it follows the story and branches to different people doing different things was amazing. Great for multiplayer co-op too. I would love to play it again with my kids

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@FenFenrirson

July 15, 2025

Played this game to no end, while it only covers the third movie (and the very end of the second) the gameplay more than makes up for it, as well as expanding on existing battles for more runtime. I remember pretty much only doing counter finishers because I loved the animations so much, although I would love to play it again now that I have more experience as a gamer to see how well I can do the combos.

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