The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
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…
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is an adventure developed by EA Redwood Shores, released 31 October 2003 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and Legacy Mobile Device. The main story takes about 6 hrs to finish.
What The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is an adventure game developed by EA Redwood Shores and released in 2003. It was published by Aspyr Media. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Legacy Mobile Device, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Adapting the closing chapters of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy, The Return of the King is a hack and slash action game that carries the War of the Ring toward its climax. Picking up from the events of The Two Towers, it follows the desperate struggle of Middle-earth's free peoples against the growing darkness of Sauron. The game unfolds across multiple intertwining storylines, letting players take control of the trilogy's beloved heroes, among them the wizard Gandalf, the ranger Aragorn, the elf Legolas, the dwarf Gimli, and the hobbits Frodo and Sam. Their paths diverge across the great battlefields and shadowed roads of the era: the defense of besieged strongholds…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the The Lord of the Rings series
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is the 20th of 69 entries we hold in the The Lord of the Rings series. The next entry was The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring in 2003. Its critic score of 75 is almost exactly the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring at 91.
How it was received
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 76, across 281 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6 hrs.
What it launched against
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King launched on 31 October 2003, within three weeks of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
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