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The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age

The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age for Game Boy Advance is a turn-based tactics game released in 2004. The game consists of 2 campaigns (Good and Evil). In each campaign the player chooses a commander. As…

2 November 2004

The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Griptonite Games, released 2 November 2004 on Game Boy Advance.

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What The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age is

The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Griptonite Games and released in 2004. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Game Boy Advance only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age for the Game Boy Advance encompasses the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, but does so in a unique turn-based strategy formula.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the The Lord of the Rings series

The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age is the 22nd of 69 entries we hold in the The Lord of the Rings series. It arrived 12 months after The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring. The next entry was The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age in 2004.

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What it launched against

The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age launched on 2 November 2004, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and World of Warcraft.

Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, World of Warcraft.

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When did The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age come out?
The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age was released on 2 November 2004 for Game Boy Advance.

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