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Name: | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
Console: | Gameboy Advance (GBA) |
Release Date: | 2003 |
Publisher: | Electronic Arts |
Genres: | Action, Beat 'em up, Hack and slash |
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 action/hack and slash video game developed by EA Redwood Shores for the PlayStation 2 and Windows, by Hypnos Entertainment for the GameCube and Xbox, by Griptonite Games for the Game Boy Advance and by JAMDAT for mobile. The game was published by Electronic Arts. It is a sequel to the 2002 game The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. The game is an adaptation of Peter Jackson's films The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, released in 2002, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, released shortly after the game in 2003. As it is not an adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1954 novel, The Return of the King, the third volume in his Lord of the Rings trilogy, anything from the novel not mentioned or depicted in the films could not be represented in the game. This is because Vivendi held the rights to the video game adaptations of the novels, whilst Electronic Arts held the rights to the video game adaptations of the films. The game is similar to its predecessor in basic gameplay, but differs by adding multiple storylines, more playable characters and increased interaction with environments.
There are two components for playing a gba The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King game on your PC. The first component is the emulation program which can imitate the gba OS and software.
The second component is the The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King game itself to play on the emulator.
Step 1: you can start by downloading a reliable and bug free emulator. We’d suggest VBA-M – it’s open source, fast and one of the most frequently updated.
Once you have finished downloading VBA-M, extract the downloaded .zip file to a location, for example your Desktop. After, double click the visualboyadvance-m.exe file in order to start the emulator.
Your emulator will now be ready to play The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. But now you’ll need to find the correct ROMs online. A ROM is essentially a virtual version of the game that needs to be loaded into the emulator.
Step 2: return to Visualboyadvance-m and hit File > Open. Navigate to the downloaded .zip file and double click it to open it. The game will now run on the emulator and you can play the game freely.
Tip: Saving games on an emulator functions a little differently. The integrated save system will not save your progress.
Instead, you’ll need to click File > Save State and then choose an empty slot. You can save your progress in whatever point you like within the game, not only on the official checkpoints offered by the game.
When playing in the future and you want to continue from your saved state, you can use File > Load State to load up the game from exactly where you last saved it.