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

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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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I've got this game years ago as a birthday present from my long gone friend when we were in anelementary school and I'd love to see it brought back available to everyoneKuba1699

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@Kuba1699

December 20, 2025

I've got this game years ago as a birthday present from my long gone friend when we were in anelementary school and I'd love to see it brought back available to everyone

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@Kodi-Bear

December 25, 2025

Tolkien's work got me through my teenage years and playing the LotR games with my brother are some of my best gaming memories. I've shared the love of the books and movies with my children and I'd love to share these games with them.

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@rockinafr0666

December 28, 2025

It is one of the favorite games I have ever played and I am hit with flashbacks along with a yearning to play it again every so often and it SUCKS that I cannot purchase it legally to show that there is a desire for something akin to a remaster of this game! I luckily still have my physical copy of the game, but that still does not let me play it whenever I want (external disc-drive is cumbersome with a laptop) and I just wish there was a way to legally help preserve this gem of a game!!

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@KorraIN95

January 06, 2026

To this day, this (along with The Two Towers) is still one of the all-time best movie tie-in video games ever made. It keeps the epic scope and scale, complete with genuinely fun gameplay.

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@Lokiardy

January 08, 2026

My favorite game to play with my little brother on the weekends! Great fun and a very good challenge! The merging of the movie cutscenes with the start of the level made you really feel like you were playing your favorite movie!

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@Orpheus33

January 16, 2026

Back when developers made games from lisenced movies, not just as a marketing strategy, but also for the pleasure of making great games. I have so many fond memories of this game when I got it as a gift for Christmas in 2003. It was so perfect to live fully my exitement for the lord of the rings.

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@yamihige

January 22, 2026

This game was one of my favorites in my childhood, i remember replaying it with every new friend that visit my house, with my brothers, this must be one of the games i replayed the most in my life.

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@daenyel

January 24, 2026

I was in love with this game back then, when LotR was still going strong. I never managed to beat the Black Gates level. I would really like to try now, if GoG could bring this gem back.

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@tiranii

January 24, 2026

This game gives deeper experience on lotr world, considering they were making this game with references from the movie makers and tolkien lore with respect. Would pay a solid money for playable version.

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@R4ZEL1GHT

February 03, 2026

What this game needs to be brought back to GOG is just the essential fix, from Widescreen, Controller, bugs fixes and raise the cap to 120FPS. Xidi isn't gonna cut it, since there is no Button prompt and as an old gamer who played this since it's release, I forgot to what button I press most of the time. Generic Button name is a lazy design.

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FreelancerEight hundred years prior to the start of our story, bitter conflict divided all of mankind. A handful of colonists struck out on their own to begin anew - far away from the Earth and its turmoil. Several ships were launched with enough equipment and supplies to give the hundreds onboard a fighting chance - but since the area around far-off Sirius had never been surveyed, no one really knew what to expect. What they found was a new frontier of free-flowing natural resources, unexplored territories, great wonders and lurking dangers. Each ship, representing the clusters of people and their earthly place of origin, settled into different parts of the galaxy pre-selected by their ship-board computer to give them the best chance of survival. Life was hard in the beginning, but over the 800 years the different colonies prospered and expanded their territories, claiming more and more systems for their own. Survival and propagation eventually led to growth and profit as each of the colonies developed specialties and fostered commerce. As the colonies grew and time passed their connections with their roots on Earth dwindled and they lost their memories of the conflicts of the past. Soon their attention was dominated by new, more immediate conflicts. Feelings of lost ancestral connection spurred anachronism in the look of the great cities, and created a somewhat distorted image of each colony's cultural heritage. In the ever-expanding outer edge of the territories, frontier lawlessness prevailed. The Houses: Each shipboard colony that left Earth carried some memory of its origins in its name. The Liberty carried Americans, The Bretonia flew from The United Kingdom and surrounding territory, The Kusari from Asia, and the Rheinland launched with Germanic cargo. As each ship settled and colonies began to expand, they knew little about each other and their advancing development. Finally, little by little, the individual colonies found each other and began to set up trade routes to link their systems for commerce and solidarity. Today, with each colony firmly rooted in its respective corner of the galaxy, the colonies rely heavily on each other for trade and industry but also compete for resources and new territories in the Border Worlds. The colonies mandate member governments in "The New Alliance" within the Sirius sector. To control conflicts, each colony has forged alliances and treaties with others as they have grown. Competition remains fierce, however. Struggles rage for supremacy in business, commerce, resources, power and control. There can be tenuous peace between colonies' political agendas, but the grabs for holdings constantly unsettle the volatile frontier.

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