The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The Lord of The Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 hack and slash RPG developed by EA Redwood Shores (Visceral Games) and published by Electronic Arts. It is based on the 2003 movie adaptation by Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema. It was released on November 3, 2003 for the Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC, and a Game Boy Advance version was released at that time as well.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Lots of Improvements from The Two Towers video game such was controls and combat.
 * 2) Co-op is added, which means two players can play levels together.
 * 3) Great graphics.
 * 4) More characters to use like Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Gandalf, Sam, Frodo, Merry, Pippin, and Faramir.
 * 5) More combos to use.
 * 6) Like The Two Towers game, the actors from The Lord of The Rings movies voice their characters in the game.
 * 7) Interviews with the actors about voicing and playing as their characters in the game.
 * 8) The game uses the soundtrack used for Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.
 * 9) All characters now share experience points to buy skills, and there is now an option to buy a skill for all characters at a more expensive price.
 * 10) All characters can use special abilities.
 * 11) * Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, and Faramir's ability increases their attack and makes them able to reach perfect mode easier and faster.
 * 12) * Gandalf can generate a magic shield that makes him invincible to all damage and damage enemies close to him.
 * 13) * Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin can use their elvish cloaks to make themselves invisible to enemies.
 * 14) Using Bane attacks now instantly puts you in perfect mode.
 * 15) The Black Gate level was amazing, and you fight on the slag hill from the books.
 * 16) You can connect the GBA version to the GameCube version to get more experiance for your characters.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Like The Two Towers video game, you can't replay the past levels until you beat the final level.
 * 2) The camera placement can get really bad.
 * 3) Viggo Mortenson, Orlando Bloom and Miranda Otto didn’t return to voice their roles in this game.