The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is an action and adventure game based off of the first two movies of the popular Lord of the Rings series, The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. Players battle…
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is an adventure developed by Hypnos Entertainment, released 21 October 2002 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
What The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is an adventure game developed by Hypnos Entertainment and released in 2002. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is a 2002 hack and slash game developed by Stormfront Studios for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. A 2D Game Boy Advance game of the same name was made by Griptonite Games, a port to the GameCube by Hypnos Entertainment, and to mobile by JAMDAT. A version for Microsoft Windows developed by Ritual Entertainment was cancelled during development. The game was published on all platforms by Electronic Arts. It is an adaption of the 2002 film of the same name. Originally released in North America for the PlayStation 2 in October 2002, it was released in November 2002 for the Game Boy Advance, in December 2002 for the Xbox and GameCube, and in May 2003 for mobile.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. 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 Two Towers is the 16th of 69 entries we hold in the The Lord of the Rings series. The next entry was The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in 2002. Its critic score of 65 is 9 points below 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 Two Towers holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 3 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 69, across 147 votes.
What it launched against
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers launched on 21 October 2002, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, TimeSplitters 2, Age of Mythology and Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, TimeSplitters 2, Age of Mythology, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.
Cheats and codes
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