The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

System: Nintendo GameCube Release date: 14/03/2003

Three words: play the movie. In the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers on Nintendo GameCube, you can live for yourself the greatest moments from the most mesmerising three hours in modern cinema history.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers takes arguably the best feature of the movie - the non-stop, hold-your-breath combat - and hands you control of three of the main protagonists. Aragorn, headstrong heir to the kingdom of Men and a dab-hand with the old blade-o'-metal; Legolas, nature-loving Elven prince and The One With The Blonde Hair; and Gimli, the little dwarf with the big axe. Expect at least one top-secret hidden character, too.

The aim is simply to fight for your life. Combinations of the A, X and Y Buttons dish out damage to the assorted orcs, trolls and other beasts that scamper your way looking for a fight, and each character's special weapon skills - such as Legolas's dizzyingly fast bow-and-arrow work - are at your command. Fast, intense and gripping are just three of the words you'll likely be yelling out loud as you cut a swathe through hordes of Tolkien's most grotesque creations.

These aren't simply one-on-one clashes - this is war. The screen swarms with enemies, some focussed on you, some caught up in computer-controlled background scraps, some flattened by special guest stars like Gandalf who pop up to even the odds. In the busiest levels, firey balls of straw scream out of the sky and blazing arrows fall like rain to make you feel the War in Middle Earth.

This might be the official game of the second in Peter Jackson's queue-forming trilogy, but the battles and locations within are sucked from both The Two Towers and The Fellowship of the Ring. You'll explore the crumbling rain-battered ruins of Weathertop, the Gates of Moria (where, yes, the Fellowship's Squid-U-Like friend is on the attack), the sunlight-scattered glades of Fangorn Forest, and more - each environment as downright beautiful and uncommonly detailed as the last. As you stab, swipe, duck and parry your way to the final confrontation, your character earns points for the quality, variety and intelligence of your fighting. These can be used to buy new moves, better skills and new weapons - which means The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is a game as compulsive and exciting as it is beautiful and faithful to the films.

Throw in clips from the movies, unlockable art and interviews with Jackson's cast, secret side-quests and missions, and a sountrack as heart-gripping and stomach-churning as Howard Shore's own movie score - and you've got one The Lord of the Rings game to rule them all.

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Categories

Action, Fighting

Players

1

Publisher

Electronic Arts

Developer

Electronic Arts

Age rating

TBD

Nintendo GameCube

System

Nintendo GameCube

Release date

14/03/2003

Age rating

TBD