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Name: | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |
Console: | Playstation 2 (PS2) |
Release Date: | 2002 |
Publisher: | Electronic Arts |
Genres: | Action, Beat 'em up, Role-playing |
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is a 2002 action/hack and slash video game developed by Stormfront Studios for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox, by Hypnos Entertainment for the GameCube, by Griptonite Games for the Game Boy Advance and by JAMDAT for mobile. A version for Microsoft Windows developed by Ritual Entertainment was cancelled during development. The game was published by Electronic Arts. In 2003, EA released a sequel, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. The game is an adaptation of Peter Jackson's films The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, released in 2001, and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, released shortly after the game in 2002. As it is not an adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1954 novel, The Two Towers, the second 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.