Remembering The Lord Of The Rings Video Games

My friends, you bow to no one... except these wonderful video games. Following the Rings Of Power release, I wanted to reflect on such a rich collection of classics. These are not only some of the best movie tie-ins that exist, but also the liberations taken with the franchise created some lifelong memories. Now, let the celebration begin!
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[@QStorm321]

Two Towers and Return of the King were incredible games, I wish they were available on current gen.

[@waveyfrizz]

Ran thru these games weekly in the rentals loved em

[@disenchanter]

been getting into them on the steam deck , I owned them on GameCube

[@crplrb]

Da fehlen die nötigen Lizenzen um diese grandiosen Spiele auf die aktuellen Konsolen zu bringen. The necessary licenses are missing for this

[@marabo12]

100% agree i played them 2 death

[@Mattznick]

Licensing hell

[@nethalar]

Oh man Conquest was the one, it was the pinnacle. I spent so many nights playing that game and its as cherished as Battlefront.

[@SamUHells]

Exactly, was literally LOTR battlefront and easily the best LOTR game. if the servers were still online people would still play that to this day

[@diangelo786]

I loved this game so much as a kid, it’s a shame that it’s almost impossible to find a copy these days

[@striderman-]

Conquest is SOOOO Underrated. Imagine if we got an updated version with hero vs villains with the similar mechanics as the newer battlefront game

[@kuno3336]

I feel like the odd man out. Conceptually, Conquest was everything I ever wanted: love LotR, loved the original Battlefront games. But the ultimate product just didn't do it for me 😞

[@TheMandalorianRedeemed]

That was like literally worst one bro lol…

[@Landonio]

Third Age might be one of the most underrated games of all time, and one of the best RPGs on the GameCube. Loved it. Evil Mode is sick too.

[@Airyed]

Yeah I remember having it when I was young and thinking it was rubbish because it wasn't like other games I do look back at that with regret

[@DustyOrchid057]

the end was dumb though

[@oiolome4039]

Literally my favorite LOTR game

[@WyldWhetherBrothers]

I’m playing it right now. So fun!

[@topherguch3278]

@@WyldWhetherBrothers me too bruh

[@SebCarrasco]

So glad you mentioned “War in the North”, definitely needs a revival. I mean hell, it’s too bad Monolith moved on, cause it would look great in the Firebird engine

[@Walamonga1313]

It was THE best 7/10 game I've ever played. Wasn't amazing, but goddamn it was fun, lore accurate and it had multiplayer. I'm still mad how I lent my disc to a friend and he lost it.

[@WarriorVII]

Favorite thing about that game was how it spanned across various areas of Middle Earth. I want more of that! Also the coop. Being able to play with a friend was just awesome.

[@nemopouncey3827]

shadow of mordor/war was like the best.

[@PotatisPolisen]

My friend and I played ng+ on every difficulty setting and managed to one shot the last boss! I really wanna play that game again!

[@nasserbukhari9513]

@@Walamonga1313 Nice megadeth pfp, they kick ass.

[@wmv8996]

One of my favorite things about two towers and return of the king was how the movie clips would transition to in game graphics. It blew my mind as a kid.

[@Adrian-om9vn]

Just made a comment on how I was amazed with Gandalf riding down helms deep then going to in game cutscene for the first mission. Mind was blown as a kid. Lol

[@Nevrop-no5rt]

I remember watching my dad play two towers growing up!! We would take turns, him doing aragorn levels, then I would pick up the controller and do the legolas levels. Little did I know, he was using me to grind through the story mode to unlock isildur!

[@shiroumxm2052]

jajajajajaj cool dad

[@Darundable]

me and my dad used to play doom the old one. so fking nostalgic

[@benkylo8015]

The Third Age is one of the most underrated games of all time!

[@kjsdpgijn]

Agreed!!!

[@TheKrislaf]

The gba game especially. I never hear anyone talk about it, but it's one of my all time favorites. It's such a nostalgia trip for me to play.

[@cyclopsentertainment517]

Agreed! I never played it as a kid but I'm playing through it now on an emulator and it's so amazing

[@Idol_Goro]

The third age was the only party and turn-based game I played up until P5R. I played loads of party-based games like dragon age, loads of turn based games like Pokemon, but TTA was the only one I played that combined them, it was a weird revelation

[@DraculaTepes420]

Played a chunk of the third age through a gba emulator on my phone, enjoyed what I played 👍

[@statesminds]

@@DraculaTepes420 the third age on gba is not the same as the third age on home consoles. Try the jrpg one!

[@DraculaTepes420]

@@statesminds Yeah I know the more powerful hardware had a different version of the game but the concept is the same lol.

[@chrisrichfield8906]

@@DraculaTepes420 no the game concept is not the same. The gba version is a tactics game akin to Final Fantasy Tactics, the home console versions are a JRPG similar to FFX.

[@DraculaTepes420]

@@chrisrichfield8906 Both are turn based games is what I meant.

[@thetropicaldream5933]

Return of the king was my favourite. I completed every mission and the 2 extra missions where there’s a rock in the middle of map and you run around it killing waves of enemies that get tougher every wave. It was so addictive back then. Would love to see it in updated graphics and on new gen. Game developers were just so loyal to making a fun game back then. Rather than just making cash cows as to what we see today

[@RKSDT]

Palantir of Saruman/Sauron - so good. Eventually you’re just against tonnes of trolls!

[@thetropicaldream5933]

@@RKSDT amazing bro 👍 ps2 gaming is the most I miss

[@abimaeldiazrivera8475]

The two towers last battle was crazyyyy

[@masonite2356]

Broooo right I remember you had to kill the troll in a certain amount of time or else they break through the gate lol it had me PRESSED as a kid 🤣

[@DraculaTepes420]

As a kid I got so mad at certain levels in the two towers and return of the king lol. They should bring back all those games through remasters, conquest included.

[@LastExile123]

Hard as hell

[@abimaeldiazrivera8475]

@@LastExile123 yeah it was hard asf bro

[@abimaeldiazrivera8475]

@@masonite2356 it was so hard indeed brother they destroyed the gate when i was a kid like a 100 times ngl jajajajajajaj

[@liamanderson9054]

Just replayed the Lord of the rings the third age on my PC through a PS2 emulator about a month back and OMG I enjoyed it. The nostalgia was unreal!

[@TwitchyTango]

Dude what’s the emulator because I would love to play through the lord of rings game again

[@ravenwda007]

@@TwitchyTango Dolphin emulator. GameCube version .

[@aidenbodycoat3681]

The lord of the rings battle for middle earth series will always have a special place in my heart such dang good games

[@denzelgaines7607]

I remember loving War in the North when it released. I grinded religiously for that platinum trophy!

[@Harri927]

I love The Lord of the Rings. It's my 2nd favorite movie of all time and I consider the trilogy as one epic movie.

[@plustico2846]

What's your first?

[@Harri927]

@@plustico2846 Batman (1989).

[@plustico2846]

@@Harri927 Nice :)

[@TripodDetergent]

As you should since The Lord of the Rings really is just 1 book split into 3 volumes

[@thunter992]

Matty just wanted to shout out and say thank you for you growing as a content creator and look forward to the many more years to come! Big ups man

[@spectrecommand7]

Matty coming in clutch with great content. Saving my days as of late.

[@spectrecommand7]

I love how the day after I do a TLotR watchathon (the extended cuts of course) Matty gives us a LoTR videogames Retro Rebound episode.

[@DraculaTepes420]

I just watched the extended trilogy with my friend as well like a month or so ago lol. 👊

[@craigachuff6087]

I found The Lord of The Rings Aragorn's Quest for PS3 sealed this year at Walmart. 😄 They must of found it beneath the storage shelf in the back. It came out in 2010.

[@velocirapper2165]

This video really touched my heart man. I felt that massive nostalgic feel and longing for my childhood back when you talked about third age and conquest. Ya got me bro 😂

[@gezab.6040]

Seeing that Third Age GBA footage really took me back! I loved it so much, even though I was a little kid at the moment who didn't fully grasp the game :p

[@Ufphen]

I played all the way into the mines of Moria without knowing you could upgrade the characters or equip better equipment when I was a kid. Never played an RPG before so I didn't know

[@BATS2288]

The Hobbit game is a good one. It's silly at times due to its target audience, but it's more book accurate than the films. There are a few expanded additions and it's mostly to take advantage of the settings all over the company's journey.

[@SunnyHF-nf4bc]

@BATS2288 I agree. The Hobbit was definitely fun for the time. But tbh, a lot games looked better to me when I was young. However, I loved how colorful the game looked.

[@statesminds]

I LOVED The Third Age on consoles was crazy to have LOTR JRPG basically lol. The GBA one was good strategy rpg too imo.

[@yashabreslove8276]

Love these games. Star Wars had some solid ones in the catalogue, but most every LotR game was gold (RotK, Middle Earth, Third Age especially). This channel's a great way to revisit some of these gems (especially under-appreciated entries, like Conquest and War in the North). By and large, media properties were fascinating back then because the books, movies, and games would flow together and create a level of world-building and intricacy that was greater than the sum of its parts. Great stuff pal!

[@patrickgoubert9379]

I remember playing this when i was a kid. Loved and love the Tolkien lore, and these games were awesome, as where the books. Got heavily invested in Lord of the Rings stuff because of them. Great stuff Matty

[@wade_says]

Always great content Matty. Loved these games as a kid.

[@bagginbrooks6573]

I'd love even a remaster of The Two Towers and The Return Of The King.

[@JustFisty]

i loved The Third Age back in my childhood days, i have so much beautiful memorys with it, and the summer i spend inside with it because of a surgery i had back then and this game, and the other Lord of the Ring games saved this summer for me. You gave me a Memory, of times when Videogames where made with passion.

[@BlinklessTV]

The third age is one of the best rpgs ever made

[@asavapowell7480]

Is it tho..? I heard it was awfully easy

[@muyspicypepper8258]

When I was but a boy me and my uncle got the Return of the King game, because it was released a week or 2 before the movie, and it was so exciting to see some of the scenes from the movie before it came out. It is a memory and feeling I will never forget.

[@mattcarvalho4280]

Yes! Great video your game choices are on point!

[@goober3164]

I loved Return of the King, I remember getting it for Christmas from my brother, I might have to get out my Xbox and play it again. Never played Conquest but always wanted to. Thanks for the video, some great games in here!

[@checkm88]

War in the North and Conquest were my favorite games for awhile there I loved Conquest, and even though it had a little bit of jank to it, I still played it a lot of the time. One of my favorite things about it was the ragdoll effect and how it was applied to almost everything if you could play as it and it has some of the funniest things I've seen in a game. Especially with the hero characters. There's something about Gimli getting sent flying and ragdolling after being killed that just never gets old I like to imagine how it would be if something similar was made today and what would be added. I do know there's an indie dev team that's working on a remake of the game so I really hope everything goes well for them.

[@evanp5911]

Getting The Two Towers in Nov 02 and Return of the King in Nov 03 having actual clips of the movie before they were out was so incredible. My brother and I would replay levels just for the clips. Back then there was on KZbin and with dial up Internet it took awhile to watch a movie trailer

[@dmwelchdw]

AragoRn is correct. EA had the license to make games based on the movies. And some other company had the license to make them based on the books.

[@vintageoriginallegit]

Isn’t it pronounced both ways in the movies?

[@dmwelchdw]

@@vintageoriginallegit No, some use that british soft r, but its not Ara-gone

[@fenly514]

Dude you leave no stone unturned love your channel

[@ataraxia44]

Realy enjoyed this , keep up the good work

[@barathrum3107]

The Return of the King was that game I will always go back if I have someone to play with. As for The Third Age, the simple fact that you could explore Moria and Helm's Deep is enough to convince me that this game is one of the best ever made. It's nothing new today since you can do the same in today's games (like Lotro) but back then it was unique. It's sad that character development was poor but it's still a sick game.

[@mrmoviemanic1]

I’m so glad these games are getting their much due respect. They brought so much life to Middle-Earth and were some of the first games I ever played.

[@allbies]

Played the everliving shit out of RotK co-op with my brother and friends back in the day. Such a great game for the time.

[@sirsquid577]

same here lol

[@DJefferson89]

I'm super excited about the fan-made Battle for Middle Earth Reforged. I put a lot of time into a few of these games, but that one consumed me

[@knuckalar]

I think we will end up getting an actual EA remake before that one is released taking forever

[@DJefferson89]

@@knuckalar you’re probably right. Or EA will just squash the fan-made right before it’s released. I hope not though. Either way I’ll donate a couple more times to help move things along!

[@infitniterpg]

Read our mind after watching Rings of Power! LEGENDARY 🔥

[@Dredizzle]

The Two towers and return of the king games are so well done imo bro. Especially with the amount of fan service put in for fans of the movies. Also the gameplay is surprisingly good with the hack n slash gameplay and the set pieces you play thru. Slap on some coop too and you got a complete package game 🔥👍🏼

[@PhoenixRiseinFlame]

Man, these games were my childhood. I loved the Southern Gate from Return of the King. Wave after wave of enemy with no end in sight. My friend and I played the absolute crap out of these games growing up. The Third Age is such an underrated game. One of the best RPGs of the 2000s. The War in the North wasn’t really given a chance by a lot of people despite it being a solid experience with great gameplay.

[@amochswohntet99]

this makes shed tear seeing a couple games in here that our computer couldnt run. Amongst the limited number of games we had, they just sat on the shelf collecting dust.

[@UnknownFilipino]

Third Age and Battle for Middle Earth were always the best LOTR games for me. I never wanted to play as the established known characters, I've always preferred to play as a nameless character within the TOLKIEN lore. I guess the idea of starting my own adventure or building my own army within in Earth was what excited me more. The story of Frodo and the fellowship has already been done, I wanted my own adventure.

[@jimmyjazz133]

The beauty about this game was the film scenes were a teaser and extended edition cut. The films weren’t even out yet and you could watch parts if the film. I remember playing the intro and stopping because I didn’t want to spoil all of the film scenes!

[@MisticStyles]

The arcade games from the '90s were amazing. Sidescrolling beat em ups with different classes, huge colorful sprites, and RPG elements like level up, stronger weapons and unlockable skills. Super addicting.

[@GenericCoyote]

What 90's games? What are you talking about?

[@codyellison6059]

Gosh it's so nice seeing conquest being talked about in a positive light I still love that game and fire it up once in a while

[@mrtgaming4539]

Loved playing some of these as a kid this brings back memories. The Return of the King on PS2 was my favourite.

[@SmellThemFish]

Ahhhh the nostalgia. Loved the Fellowship, the sheer immersion running around the shire in the beginning hooked me. The Third Age I played for weeks, it's really an amazing game - When it came out while I was in high school, TTA and Elder Scrolls: Oblivion were the only games I played. I remember I had to get a friend to buy me Oblivion since I was on house arrest when it released, so I had a lot of hours stuck in the house doing nothing but playing RPG's. I'm just now getting into LOTRO which you didn't mention, but maybe you were only referring to non MMO games?

[@orboflightning]

Loved the nostalgia trip. So many of these games are definitely products of their time and they could be greatly improved if remastered and released today. That said, with such great source material we know at least the stories would be solid. My only suggestion for future videos: maybe mention when games were released across multiple consoles? War In The North for example, I have that for PS3, but you mention the 360. Maybe I just missed it, but anyone watching that’s interested in a game might think they can’t play it if it’s not “available” for their owned console

[@Maya_Ruinz]

Love the lego LOTR game, you cant go wrong with those

[@connorday2197]

Had an itch to play these games recently this helps sooooo much

[@MrMisanthropicMan]

I really enjoy watching your videos, they’re very well made and a lot of fun. Keep it up! There was also another Lord of the Rings game that came out in 2010, I think, called Aragorn’s Quest but I don’t think it was very well received. And then there was also the 2003 Hobbit PS2 game which was also not that good😆

[@Terry.M.I.]

me and my little brother use to play conquest soooooo much i loved that game so much about as much as you talked about it

[@PrimedSnake]

Really miss these days of gaming where your guaranteed a good game 7 times out of 10 at least. Wish these times would come back. Compared to today it takes years to make a game, buggy launches and plenty of delays.

[@akirawashere]

Congrats on the 100th video!

[@everythingedits4918]

Shadow of Mordor should have been on there, that was FR one of the best games I have ever played

[@danielstefanovic2604]

yeah and the sequel shadow of war. But then again theyre more of middle earth games and not lotr.

[@iReiGNxx]

Conquest was severely underrated. It was the spiritual successor to the original Battlefront games and despite it being a little odd in some areas, it captured the feel of the LOTR movies and was one of the most fun games I ever played on that console generation. I’m still sad that it was Pandemic studio’s swan song and they shut down not long afterwards.

[@samgourhan207]

Eragon is a series of dragon centric ya novels from the mid 2000s written by Chris paloni. They were written as the lotr hype was at its hype. So yeah people confuse them.

[@THENEVERDEADIV]

Good books bad movie..lol

[@samgourhan207]

@@THENEVERDEADIV Yeah my brother had an obsession with them and the dresden files. Way to kill 2 birds with one stone

[@SuperMoviemaster21]

@@THENEVERDEADIV Completely disagree. The other way around. Why do people hate the movie so much? Just because it Change things doesn’t mean it’s bad. Honestly, with the exception of the were cat, I do not miss a single thing That they changed/left out of the movie. Honestly, such a blessing that they changed things the way they did.

[@ThatReplicant]

Ive been remembering these games lately. The two towers and return of the king games were fantastic. Some of the best movie games even to this day imo.

[@wesley6571]

Conquest was so fire when I was a teen. It was the Lord of the rings battlefront I always wanted!

[@xTtownThump24x]

Two towers was my favorite game back in the day I actually think it’s more fun nowadays! Takes me back to a simpler gaming days!

[@adrianos.m.9443]

Ohh man the times that made me love gaming. Playing Age of empires with my dad, watching movies and going to the lan house to play lotr games. There were a lot of gems from lotr, i remember one similar to the official movie games that were in chapters. Also one of them i really want to play again, a RTS age of mythology style. Still remember to this day summoning a horde of balrogs to destroy rohan's capital, amazing

[@PhoenixRiseinFlame]

I believe the game you’re referring to is Battle for Middle Earth. IMO one of the best RTS games ever made.

[@RushianBear]

Hey, Matty! Can you talk about the Hobbit game that came out in 2003? That game was a big one from my childhood, and I still go back and play it often. Keep up the good work, I'm loving these videos! :)

[@NeO_SaNdMaN4040]

Return of the King was absolutely goddamn masterful in terms of its levels and how much fun the fighting was. The weight of the swords, the bow/arrow range attacks the BADASS Parry animations! Ugh return of the king was so goddamn fun.

[@happyjam92]

War in the North is one of the few gamwa that I've platinumed. It was basically like the old movie games with online play, with heavy replay value for loot and gear. It was awesome.

[@peshkybee7721]

Return of The King was superior on a technical level but daaaamn The Two Towers is nostolgic bliss lol that Helms Deep battle.... Legendary

[@Kradd]

I played third age until I got stuck in some looping cave system. Then I forgot to go back, and it's been like three consoles. This video is a trip, I feel like I played bits of all of these at one house or another.

[@HushR6Official]

LOTR Conquest was my whole childhood I would love to have a remaster of it so much!

[@Sword420]

Lord of the Rings: The Third Age was the first Turn-Based Final Fantasy inspired game that I actually completed. So yeah, it's definitely a good game. Jumped into Final Fantasy afterwards with much more appreciation.

[@Walamonga1313]

Same lol. Well, I played TTA as a kid and loved it. It took me almost a decade to try FFX, because I had no idea what turn based combat was called. Then I heard FFX was basically the same. And from that point on I got into FF and JRPGs

[@deadeye4047]

The Third Age is a game that I come back to time and again. There's just something about it that is special and timeless to me. The same can be said of Return of The King, Jaws Unleashed, Jedi Academy, Peter Jackson's King Kong, and KOTOR 2.

[@hardy3089]

Man the two towers and return were some great games man nights spent playing those

[@Willow908]

Battle for Middle Earth 1 and 2+ the expansion for 2 we're my favorite games growing up. I still got the physical PC games from my childhood with the boxes and everything ^^

[@GooberGoofy]

God LOTR Conquest had to have been one of my favorite games as a kid. Was so sad when they shut down online servers

[@GaunteroDimmm]

The fact someone else remembered the baseball stadium from MOH Rising Sun brings warmth to my heart!

[@Pedzpaints]

I wish the battle for middle Earth games would get a revival. I have so many fond memories playing through them. And the third age!!! My goodness I spent some time playing that as a youngling. I didn’t really understand how to play an RPG the first time I played it. I got stuck fighting the balrog for the first time as I didn’t have the revive spell on my elf. But I was so in love with it, I spent the learning the mechanics and really fell in love with gaming because of it.

[@c.jarmstrong3111]

Love your content, brother!

[@cash592]

Just started reading these books and they are my favorite ones ever, I love lord of the rings just a great franchise

[@TwitchyTango]

That’s pretty awesome I think the books do some things better than the movies tbh

[@GrimmHollywood]

Return of the King is nostalgia overload. Gotta love it 🤟

[@bartsimpson83]

I'm an 80s/90s kid and my introduction to LOTR was the Ralph Bakshi movie. My uncle showed it to me when I was 12 or 13 and I've been a Tolkien fan ever since.

[@charliesilveria1998]

I would love to see you do a video of your first time playing The Third Age! Used to be one of my favorite games ever right next to KOTOR!

[@majesticvaporeon5590]

I was LITERALLY just thinking about this series yesterday! I remember playing Lord of the Rings 3 (ps2) in coop mode with my cousin at my Dad's apartment. I really hope they get some sort of remasters. Not sure if I played the first one, but I do remember the other two. I have a copy of the 3rd game on xbox, but it does not work on 360 cause it freezes.

[@thatisbadass]

these games were LIT!! cant think of any other TV show / movie with such a great video games.

[@keatonhixon6671]

There is one LOTR game I remember playing with my grandpa. I cannot remember the title but I remember it being a more adventurous game. All I can really remember is running around a plains land and fighting wargs.

[@brianwaterman9154]

Third age and return of thr king were my couch coop drugs. We need them back 😭

[@baneofxistance4813]

The Third Age is the GOAT, one of the only LOTR games I come back to every year or so

[@markkedzie3717]

Battle for middle Earth and third age were both my childhood and I have fond memories of doing couch co-op with my friends playing conquest 😎😎😎 we loved whenever we got to play as ents trolls or the balrog

[@DamBaker95]

Lord of the rings the third age for GBA is one of my favorite handheld tactical games ever! I completed it with every character, good and evil several times!

[@murrayisarobot]

My parents wouldn't buy me a proper console for years and all I had was the GBA, I played the shit out of the Two Towers for GBA, I remember it being pretty expansive with weapons you could pick up, upgrades, and when you reach the end and there's A MOVIE CUTSCENE OF HELMS DEEP! ON A GAMEBOY! Man that was living.

[@sugarbumps5083]

Conquest was such an amazing game, I was devastated the day the servers went offline. I waited weeks for them to come back before I realized what had happened. I made so many friends in the game. We’d share secret abilities, and play single player in the maps to study them and figure out new spots. I had so much fun with the archer 😭 I can’t understand why it died out so suddenly

[@darkmaskgaming2876]

Came across your channel a couple of weeks ago and ive been enjoying your content .....i played the shit out of the two towers on ps2 lmao

[@curlyhairedgamer]

Lotr conquest will always have a place in my heart

[@itsTodd]

Conquest and The Third age were so dope as a kid, I played the third age but never beat it I’d just play the first chapter unlock the orca then restart after I got bored. But the amount of hours spent was a joke. Thanks for the bid the nostalgia alone in this video for me is enough to leave a like!

[@MrErikAvA]

The dmc comparison makes perfect sense too me cause that’s how I got into dmc. Playing these games made me fall in love with 3rd person action games!

[@akshaytrayner1960]

Great retrospective

[@Ray_ray661]

return of the king was so cool man I spent countless hours playing co-op with my brothers

[@Equus21]

My childhood game! Two Towers. My first PS2 game ever.

[@Croftyhere]

My best mate and I did an all nighter once playing the Return of the King game together and 100% the game. It's one of my personal favourites

[@fritzzorn9086]

The developer/publisher of Fallout and Baldur's Gate made my favourite Lord of the Rings game, which came out for the SNES. The game has a steep learning curve, but is worth the time. Such a great atmosphere, and the multiplayer is a lot of fun.