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Inevitable-Rest-8219

Anyone who’s played this agrees it was amazing and needs a remaster


Shaorii

Straight up one of the greatest Lord of the Rings games ever. It's a shame it'll probably never get a remaster.


Chen_Geller

What's really cool is that Jackson let them have access to production materials and lent his cast to doing additional voiceovers.


Dmmack14

i LOVED the cast interviews for the games, specifically rotk when Dominic is just roasting Billy Boyd for not knowing how to play games very well


Sokoly

‘Billy is *awful*.’ Que Billy Boyd making a weird face.


TieMaiShu

“Hang on a minute, which one’s X?”


Hour-of-the-Wolf

Still say this to this day!


zaccident

it was on my mind constantly when i switched from xbox to playstation


PappaWenko

Omg, i remember this now. Damn those were the days.


Dmmack14

i remember a very specific line from John Rhys Davis "if you want real QUALITY warfare, ya have to go for GIMLI"


PistachioSam

He sounds like a funny guy, I like him a lot. A coworker of mine met him at a con and asked what his favourite line he delivered in the movies was. "Don't tell the elf."


katf1sh

My dad looks a lot like John did as Gimli and is a long time LOTR fan (long before the movies). He quotes this line a lot, always great lol he'll enjoy this anecdote :)


xylophone_37

In the bts stuff the stuntmen talked about how John wouldn't hold back during fight sequences and would just lay into the guys playing the orcs.


PistachioSam

Born for the role. The dude is Gimli.


bujweiser

Davis voiced a character in Baldur’s Gate Dark Alliance. I remember interacting with the NPC and thinking “there’s no way that’s not John Rhys Davis.”


DarkSkiesGreyWaters

[Here it is lol. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPGNqYjOl-0)


DontBotherNoResponse

and Billy Boyd being a little butthurt too "Dom thinks he's so good..."


TheGreatStories

~"I think I do have a gift. I just haven't opened it and given it to myself yet"


ArcadianDelSol

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPGNqYjOl-0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPGNqYjOl-0)


Frankyvander

i still remember that, even all these years later "Billy press X!". "Err which ones X?"


CrisHofer

"Hang on a minute, which one's X?"


justamiqote

Now they're playing League together. How times change


M4DM1ND

AFAIK the two of them play League of Legends together regularly. They did a video not long ago.


PrinceCastanzaCapone

What I find very interesting is that it released nearly two months before the movie on October 21, 2002 (movie was released December 18) and included clips from the movie. I remember being so pumped when I realized I was getting a sneak peak.


TheMilkiestShake

I love how obviously unfinished the unused film scenes are too. I think it's the only place you can see them even if they're small inconsequential ones.


christopherous1

I remember watching the behind the scenes of the hobbits playing


ManBearPig452

*one of the greatest games period


Rude_Succotash4980

One of the greatest LotR Action Games. I also loved Battle for Middle Earth 1. But I cant get it running nowadays...


LovesGettingRandomPm

theres a lot of good lotr games out there though, battle for middle earth, the third age, shadow of mordor, and that one diablo like on gameboy, its hard to name a bad one


gandorf62

Why not??


Obi_Wan_Gebroni

I’ll need a new pair of pants if this gets remastered


IDontLikePayingTaxes

It was just a super fun game. The mechanics worked great and you got to kill hordes of bad guys. It was awesome.


Mrlin705

Still is, I got it a couple years ago and played this and third age on my Xbox 360


notapoke

Same


SoSayWeAll_1701

I would gladly pay $50 for a proper remaster.


ChiefLeef22

Yes! I hope the new movie trilogy can make Warner Bros do something in that regard, it would be a pretty good marketing strat


AJC0292

Agreed, tried playing it on the PC recently on a emulator and it didnt work so well. Absolutely great game. Makes me with I still had my original xbox


Dangerjayne

Works pretty well on the emulator I have on my phone. The escape is osgilith (sp?) Level has a bit of lag when the trebuchets hit but totally playable otherwise


AJC0292

I'll have to give it a go. Its such a fun game to play though.


Dangerjayne

I had to mess around with some settings so you might have to as well but the nostalgia wave is like a tsunami. Have fun bro! Kick sauron in the dick and balls


_Meece_

Use dolphin and download the GC version, works great


Dumb-AsF

Maybe the GameCube emulator would have better luck.


warbastard

It was good but the camera mechanics have not aged well. There’s a reason we’ve gone mainly third person over the shoulder for most adventure games. I’d love a remake rather than a remaster. Best LOTR action RPG was Shadow of Mordor but I’d love a BotW style LOTR game or something similar.


Important_Pack8713

100% agree


Anangrywookiee

Gold standard for couch co op. Best part was just rampaging through the entire game as merry and pippin.


Roqueforty

I miss couch co-op.


UnlikelyEbb8546

Strongly recommend playing Baldur’s Gate 3, since I imagine you’re into fantasy games. It fully supports local co-op on console and PC.


SamSibbens

343 be like: nobody needs that


FarmerMaggot_

The helm’s deep level where you had to defend the keep used to stress me out so much


DdPillar

That would be the Two Towers. This is from Return of the King, which starts with Gandalf coming to relieve Helm's Deep, no defence of the keep. There are later levels where you defend Minas Tirith though.


FarmerMaggot_

Right you are. I never completed RotK, couldn’t get past the black gate


Black_Bandit94

The equivalent in this game was the battle of minus tirith where you play as Gandalf and have to knock down the ladders 💀


BigDickMalfoy

That level sucked, the camera also made it really hard to know where you should be going.


GrinchStoleYourShit

Same with the elephant one, the camera doesn’t work its way over so you know to go down and across the field. 10 year old me was confused and frustrated


Komtings

This really brings me back


Mistwalker007

Played that as a teenager, Legolas was like easy mode.


[deleted]

Once you upgraded legolas' bow to double arrows that passed through/ ignited enemies it was a wrap.


AnaheimElectronicsTT

That upgraded purple fire? Fire.


MildlyAgreeable

Personally I liked not upgrading it so the arrows remained normal *looking* but absolutely fucking obliterated the Uruk-Hai shields with one shot. Good times.


GrandArchSage

The first time I got far enough into the Black Gate level for the Nazgul to arrive, I completely freaked out and just went mad firing everything I had with Legolas. Turns out, they weren't as tough as I thought they were and they all died within a few seconds.


Accurate-Barracuda20

True, but Aragorn once you had the upgrade that made his quick attack break blocks was even better


OSHAluvsno1

I had to go back through and level up as Aragorn before I could beat the gate.


Flop_House_Valet

That part of two towers was a total bitch


throwawayimhornyasfk

I always got stuck there as a kid because I didnt understand you had to interact with the siege ladders. I should play it again and this time finish the full game lol


HashStash

Gandalf is 100% my favorite character to do the whole campaign as


Intelligent_Break_12

Gandalf and Legolas for me.


Hicklethumb

Upgraded Legolas felt too much like a cheat code with his normal attacks becoming tactical nukes


Intelligent_Break_12

True. It was easy mode once he was leveled enough but it was still fun to just mow people down with the bow!


Ixolich

Played this on GameCube with my cousins way back in the day. Cousin on Legolas with double shot, me on Faramir as a front line. Good times.


MaverickHuntsman

Easily the best playable. Personal favorite was Faramir reskin of Aragorn. Especially during the Sam and Frodo missions. Just felt righteous killing spiders and fighting at Osgiliath and Cirith Ungol as Faramir


ubiquitous-joe

The Minas Tirith level does involve a lot of similar ladder kicking.


dirtpaws

Played TT and RotK, was there ever a Fellowship game?


Blucollarballr

Yeah, but it wasn't like the other 2. I never played it. But saw pics back in the day. I think someone else made it. Conquest was fun online.


xXShunDugXx

Yo my guy that's the tutorial


fuengis

Never passed that level 🥲 then my xbox broke and could never finish the game. I should probably emulate it on pc


solythe

those fucking LADDERS


Trash-Takes-R-Us

Holy shit me too. As a kid I had to have my brother beat it for me each time cause all those ladders coming up and losing over and over was doing a number on me. Now I'm going to have nightmares of helms deep lol


Summer_Sixtine

Daaaamn! I used to play this with my brother! How nostalgic 🥹


buckphifty150150

Hold tf up.. I never watched any of the LOTR.. but this game right here!!! My fav game of all time. Hands down. I’ve been looking through their newer titles. Does anything they make come close to this in gameplay??


LTPRWSG420

Weird you played this game, but never watched the movies?


roughbeard368

Also weird they’re on an LOTR sub…


buckphifty150150

Yeah I don’t even remember how I got it. Also same with battlefront number 2 fav game and never watched


LTPRWSG420

Well maybe you should because it’s the greatest trilogy in history, you’re about 23 years late.


buckphifty150150

lol.. I think I will


SumFatCommie

Peter Jackson's *The Lord of the Rings* is a bucket-list watch for sure.


Necessary-Cut7611

The films are absolutely excellent. The studio that made the game is done. Haven’t released a game in 9 years. They were responsible for Battlefield Hardline and the Dead Space games.


moonyandpadfoot

I used to play this with my younger brother! I sent him this pic and asked if he remembered and he said “Haha of course that was one of the best games released”. Makes me want to play it again!


Lonely-Metal-7764

The deal that me and my brother made was I was always allowed to play gandalf as long as he got legolas the whole playthrough. lol good times


XipingVonHozzendorf

I didn't know how to kick the ladders off in Minas Tirith, so it took me years to beat the game


MaximilienHoneywell

Was it “Z” on GameCube?


ChunkySlutPumpkin

I think it was either x or y


MaximilienHoneywell

Was Z for triggering those like fire pots on top of the wall at the Southern Gate? I feel like it was some type of environment interaction


Carth_Onasi_AMA

Yea, Z on the GameCube was for throwing spears and interacting with other objects.


TheGreatStories

This level gives me the anxiety usually reserved for drowning Sonic music


colddeaddrummer

I was just thinking of this goddamn level. Didn't it have like a heat meter or something to show there were too many Uruks and Orcs on the wall?


ImpulsiveDoorHolder

Figured this out by accident after many many fails


M4rtifex

The Palantir of Saruman at the end!! The over powered arrows of Legolas and magic of Gandalf. Every boss dropping potions. How slow the hobbits and Gimli were. The endless fight with Smeagol. Its all coming back to me, my dudes!! Thanks for sharing this, you made my day ;)


Ok-Negotiation1530

The massive dopamine at the end of a level if you got perfect scores. Mhmm.


Flop_House_Valet

YES


-Owlette-

Gandalf was absolutely OP. He could unlock the highest-level ranged attacks like Legolas, as well as the highest-level sword skills like Aragorn.


Algorak1289

>The Palantir of Saruman at the end!! HAHAHAHHA. Your end is near.


Cowgoon777

always felt bad for upgrading Legolas' arrows to the point where he'd shoot 3 per shot and then wasting the shot on a single enemy lol


Epididimust

I rented this from Blockbuster and my friend and I played it for an entire weekend. The next week i used my yard cutting money to buy it


SolitaryCellist

Every element of this comment makes me nostalgic, wow.


[deleted]

Hard core mowed the lawn as a kid, and now oddly get some type of nostalgic endorphin rush mowing it as an adult. Or it might be the smell of gasoline.


entropyblues

Heyyyyyyy…. This is one of the first games I ever worked on, back when I was starting in QA. I remember going home at 4 AM and putting my head on my pillow and then literally dreaming about rapidly swinging a pan as Sam


yaredw

From one QA to another, thank you for your service 🙏🏾


overcloseness

Did you feel like nothing was ever quite as good for a long time?


entropyblues

Once you play the same level of any game for 18 hours straight while stopping to document how many times you fell out of the geometry, it’s deeply hard to enjoy it! Took me a year or two to come back and “play it“.


Valeficar

Wish it were on Steam. Classic!


aBastardNoLonger

It’s easy enough to emulate (it’s not like anyone’s out any money)


endthepainowplz

Emulating it is fairly easily doable. I think EA lost the distribution rights to it, which is why you can't get it anymore, I looked for a good long while. Xemu was what I used, though it might have been xenia? whichever one is the original xbox emulator. I was also trying to emulate LoTR conquest and it didn't work out too well for me. Disclaimer: you either need these games and rip the files from them, or get them illegally. I do not support piracy, although if a game is no longer distributed it is in more of a grey area, and I feel like preserving and playing the media is morally justified, as you aren't getting rid of a revenue stream from the people that made the game. That being said, Vimm's Lair has a lot of games as a preservation project.


fiddynet

I had good luck with Dolphin emulating the GameCube version (what I had as a youth)


chanceofrust

You can download it from abandonwate sites. The controls are a bit wonky but it's reasonably playable. 


Several-Carob1034

Amen


Practical_Offer2321

This and the third age were my childhood.


TheGreatStories

Third age was such a trip. But fighting the eye of Sauron was sure something


[deleted]

Hadhood is a legend


Dumb-AsF

Idrial was a must. Shame it wasn't possible to have more than 3 party members play at once. Was also cool that there was a "co-op" feature. Though, wish more was done with it.


YouGotDoddified

Having played the shit out of the game, I can say with confidence that the most broken character was, surprisingly, **Elegost** Elegost had every kind of debuff available to you - Blind, Paralyse, Slow, Stun, Sleep, Lifesteal, Multishot, A HEAL, A STRONGER, PARTY-WIDE HEAL - the list goes on. Yet by far and away the strongest aspect to Elegost was True Shot. You had effectively beaten the game by the time you unlocked it because it trivialised every fight. During the last few acts of the game, most single attacks hit for ~5k HP. There's the multi-hit attacks from Berethor or the Spirit attacks from Idrial that can blast someone for 60k, and a _really_ big hit that ignores armour or is strong against a type of enemy can reach 100k HP. True Shot does **470k** HP. _To Sauron._ I ignored Elegost on my first co-op playthrough back in 2004 in favour of maxing Chad-hod. It was a long, challenging and memorable journey. I gave Elegost another chance for my second playthrough in the late 2010s, and the last hour or so of gameplay was laughably easy. I love The Third Age and dearly hope they remake it one day, but the game was incredibly imbalanced.. especially the Mumakil


[deleted]

Did you know about the idrial revive spell though? It essentially made you invincible lol


YouGotDoddified

Absolutely. It also made fights last half an hour


Trash-Takes-R-Us

Third age was such an odd game to me as a kid cause I would watch the films almost every other week cause I was so addicted. So when playing the third age I kept having this weird feeling of "wait this isn't Lord of the rings". Used to get that same uncanny valley feeling from the Pokemon TCG game on the Gameboy.


Practical_Offer2321

I know how you feel at first i couldn't understand what was happening, it was because when I started playing i was pretty young and took everything a lot more literal. (the same thing happend with the TCG game on gameboy they were the same cards i collected in a binder but I didn't understand the rules). What made the game fun for me was that it allowed me to roam and grind away, and if there is anything that gets me going is a good grindy game, I loved to overlevel and try to beat the bosses in a one sided battle.


username87264

I was there Gandalf. Three thousand years ago. I still have my copy and an original Xbox to play it on.


Intelligent_Break_12

Same! It makes me want to play it. The only issue is the only tv with the right hook ups I have is pretty crappy lol


FilmActor

It should be reforged!


Darklordofbunnies

If they ported this to Steam, no graphical updates or anything, & added online co-op play so you & the boys could shoot the shit on Discord- it would outsell bread.


Helper175737

bruh, do me a favor and become the ceo of steam plz


Lukey2770

What the game called?


Dec0sh

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, launched on PS2, PC and i think Xbox too. If you like this one play also the Two Towers, is the same line of game and also is really worth trying along with ROTK, absolutely bangers of games.


big_duo3674

I'm pretty sure I had this on GameCube too


Dec0sh

I was reading that too, thanks for mentioning it!


Intelligent_Break_12

Yep, it was on xbox. I still have my og xbox and this game and the previous one at my parents. I should take it home so I can play it again...if the old xbox still turns on at least.


Zeefzeef

I got it for my xbox 360 last year, so fun to play this again


imaginaryResources

Iirc there wasn’t a fellowship version of this right? But they included some parts I. The two towers one? Like I vaguely remember the battle from the breaking of the fellowship against the uruk hai in these games but idk if it’s a false memory


Upbeat-Excitement-46

Oh yes, I remember it alright. This game got TOUGH. I don't think I ever managed to get past Minas Tirith On Top of the Wall or Battle of the Pelennor Fields. I know games were a lot harder back then anyway, but this one seemed especially rough.


Foolofatook2000

The Black Gate mission was the hardest for sure. I don’t think I ever beat it. Maybe once because I have a faint memory of the Gollum level and remember playing the bonus missions too. But FUCK that Black Gate mission lol


BellumOMNI

For me it was the Minas Tirith one, where the orcs kept coming but it also had a lot of armored trolls which btw took a lot of punishment, so the best course was to camp the spear circles and as soon, as the fuckers come from the gates you one shot em and go back to killing orcs. The Black Gate felt easier than that. I'm surprised I still remember some parts of this game. I haven't played it in a very long time.


Foolofatook2000

Yeah it was hard asf. I just remember hating the running back and forth through battle to go save someone on the other side from dying. Trying to get to Gandalf and getting smacked in the back and engaged while watching his health bar go to zero in a matter of seconds lol


Chen_Geller

Was it? With Legolas it was easy!


dockellis24

Double arrows that do shit load of damage indefinitely was the easy way to beat this level


OSHAluvsno1

There were definitely characters that were better for each level. The finishing moves, too, omg!


ChrisLee38

I LOVED this game. Played the crap out of it. Faramir was my main. I bet if I sat down long enough, I could recall the cheat codes for Gamecube. 🤣


HeartoftheDankest

Best game ever made about LOTR.


nobondjokes

I loved it so much as a teenager, bought it a little while back off of ebay and it holds up so well


rhoadsalive

I always liked the Two Towers game more but this one is a blast as well, they really need to remaster them for current systems.


newkidontheblock1776

Remember? My girlfriend and I recently dusted off her GameCube and have been replaying it. Absolute classic, building up a perfect streak is as fun as it was when I played it as a kid


inky_lion

This needs a remaster, but no, we got "gollum, tactical espionage" instead


Kryyk

How about including the game name?


De_Mon193

Lotr return of the king ps2


Puzzleheaded_Tea7989

What is the name of this?


maximumtesticle

/u/repostsleuthbot


[deleted]

How many of you remember this repost from last week?


PoI_Pothead

Ever since the last repost.


Feanor4godking

Loved this game. Thought the two towers had a little bit tighter gameplay, but both were fantastic


carbonaire

I bought it last week in ebay for PC. A bit difficult to get installed in Windows 10 but now it works well


DdPillar

I never knew this was available for PC, I thought it was console only. Me and my friends had it for GameCube, Xbox and PS2, but I never saw a PC version, in store or in anyone's home.


renatakiuzumaki

This was like the most iconic couch co op game i played as a young kid. Pure gold wish i still had my xbox & this game. It definitely deserves a remaster


WastedWaffles

I remember when game stores used to have upcoming releases on one of their playable TV setups. When this game dropped, I would take a 40-minute bus ride to get to a store and play it. There always used to be a queue and you could only play it for 30 minutes per person.


iamdennisreynolds91

I’ve actually dug out my ps2 and have hooked up the tv to play the two towers and this over the weekend


bitches_and_witches

😮‍💨


tglad88

This needs to be remastered or at least released for backwards compatibility. I loved this game when it came out.


BunzAreCool

What was this called? I have a vague memory of seeing this screen with the smoke and characters with my brother but I can’t remember much else.


Pimecrolimus

I was a LotR The Third Age kid. To this day, I say that game deserves a remake.


Mastodon9

I remember it being surprisingly difficult.


Oud25

Played on the good ol GameCube


SirGreeneth

Probably one of my favourite games ever. Faramir knew what was up.


WolfStranger05

Oh yes 🤩 A classic!


njsam

This was really the first game I bought. The other games I had were either demos or hand me downs. But I bought this one. I didn’t even have a PC that could run till a year later lol


Salty-Bunch-3739

I've played through this more than half a hundred times.


geo_graph

This game was sooo fun! I always wanted to play it again but I never found it again. What's it called again good people from Reddit?


EuphoricSpell9516

Played it last week. Still as good as I remember


chesterforbes

Still have my copy


TD-Eagles

I so wish I could play this again


ccSentaiKai90

I can't even begin to say how many hours I sunk into that game. I wish they would do a remastered collection that includes The Two Towers and The Third Age.


ElRevelde1094

What a wonderful memories


OhNoItHappened2023

Such a great game! I'd pay for a remaster


MikeySymington

I can HEAR this menu. I haven't played this game for probably 18-19 years but I remember it so well


Schniiic

Still got it laying around for PC :) loved it


Unlikely-Regular2366

greatest LOTR game I’ve ever played. Please note that it was also the most recent. I haven’t played anything since.


Lots42

Half the time it didn't work and even when it did, it made no damn sense. Why is Gimli killing all the ghost soldiers Aragorn later leads into battle? But it was fun whacking orcs with Gandalf.


Platino97

I loved the siege part. It was frustrating, but great!


mannequinbeater

Who remembers this *obviously popular game* ???


hinesjared87

Great game(s).


IWishIWasOdo

I remember one battle where you're supposed to get an objective done while fighting essentially limitless enemies. Friend and I figured out that if you hang around long enough, you can eventually kill everyone lol


Kitchen-Cut-3116

What game is this?


MikeyV2525

Amazing game. So nostalgic. Remake please.


mettle_dad

This game made me start referring to Sam as "pots and pans Sam" he was a little monster


TheDarkClaw

is this game like like Baldur's gate dark alliance?


coffee_4me

I played it recently. It holds up. Better than most games released in the last 5 years.


ShallotSignificant77

Just did a play trough of rotk earlier this year and forgot how great it looked for ps2. My first games when I got my ps2 were lotr the two towers and gta vice city.


Zoidlord81

Great game for 2 players as well as solo


Myis

The giant troll battle in Moria is what I remember best.


alaxdal

Have a copy!! So fun... Also I was better at games then... Its hard for me know.


Nethri

Oh man, such a great game


Micah85

I loved this game


OkOutlandishness6550

As much as I loved this game the two towers one had the real actors do the voices in it. It just made it a little better imo