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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers for PlayStation 2
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers for the PlayStation 2 is an action game based on Peter Jackson’s first two films. As Aragorn, Legolas or Gimli, you fight through locations from The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. The journey takes you from dangerous encounters with the Fellowship to defending Helm’s Deep. Film footage connects the battles and places the next assignment within the story.
In battle you combine fast and powerful attacks with parries, kicks and ranged weapons. A protected enemy calls for a different approach from one you can hit from afar. You also watch the space around you: being surrounded makes finishing an attack harder. Consecutive hits improve your combat rating and provide more experience for your character.
After a level, earned points buy new moves and upgrades. You therefore expand your chosen hero’s abilities throughout the campaign. The three protagonists use different weapons and each has a distinct pace, giving battles a different feel when tried again. The Two Towers is played alone. It emphasises mastering attacks, recognising enemies and carrying out objectives amid a battle.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 2 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers for PlayStation 2 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers was released for the PlayStation 2 in 2002, around the second film’s arrival. Stormfront Studios and EA Redwood Shores collaborated on the game, published by Electronic Arts. EA had an agreement with New Line Cinema for games based on the film trilogy. The films’ appearance, sound and events could therefore directly underpin the game world.
The title refers to the second instalment, but the adaptation begins with events from The Fellowship of the Ring. EA connected two films within one sequence of battles. Film footage transitions into game imagery to make that link visible. Collaboration with the production also provided original sound effects and Howard Shore’s music. Actors including Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom and John Rhys-Davies voiced their characters for the game.
The console version gave Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli the main playable roles. Their attacks and earned experience connected the separate film situations. The Return of the King followed in 2003, developed by EA Redwood Shores, with more heroes and two-player cooperation. The Two Towers retained the earlier single-player approach, combining the first two films around a compact system of attacks, parries and upgrades.
Similar games for PlayStation 2
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King directly builds on film battles and buying new attacks. It adds more protagonists and local two-player cooperation. The Two Towers focuses its campaign on one player and the three main warriors, using events from the first two films.
The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age also uses the film world of Middle-earth but has its own party fight in turns. You choose commands from menus and coordinate party abilities. The Two Towers demands direct movement, timed attacks and parries, asking for a different kind of attention within the same world.
God of War shares combining attacks against enemy groups and learning new abilities. Kratos fights with chained weapons in a Greek-myth-inspired world. The Two Towers divides its action among familiar film heroes and battles. In both, recognising an enemy matters to your next movement.
Champions of Norrath also combines real-time fantasy combat with developing a character. You collect considerable equipment and allocate skill points. The Two Towers keeps heroes and weapons closer to the films, tying development mainly to combat moves bought between levels.
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance also offers direct combat and experience-based character development. It additionally focuses on loot, equipment and dungeon exploration, optionally with a second player. The Two Towers follows film situations alone, emphasising attack chains within a defined battle.
