The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Windows, Mac OS, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Developer: EA Redwood Shores Publisher: EA Games Platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox Released in JP: January 8, 2004 (PS2, GCN) Released in US: November 3, 2003 Released in EU: November 14, 2003 Released in KR: 2003 (PS2, Xbox, Windows) This game has unused graphics. This game has revisional differences. This game has anti-piracy features. This game has a prerelease article

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a tie-in based on Peter Jackon's The Return of the King film and with some elements of The Two Towers. Much like The Two Towers, the game revolves around you going through levels with the main characters.

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Prerelease Info

Anti-Piracy

General

• Sometimes, when completing a level, there is a chance that the game will crash.
• Actions on the blue rounded thingie are disabled. As a result, roughly about 1/3rd of the game's levels cannot be completed.
• Because only Sam is playable, gameplay, in general, is more difficult.
• ...Not to mention that the game's difficulty is set to Hard.
• Experience points are massively reduced.

Co-Op

• Co-op will simply crash. Possibly the game is trying to run two Sams.

Character Select

• You can only play as Sam, even if you select other characters.

Helm's Deep

• If playing on a new game, Gandalf is only playable once.
• If returning, only Sam will be playable.

Version Differences

The Windows version was available in CD-ROM or DVD-ROM releases. The DVD edition features bonus content.