Remembering The Lord Of The Rings Video Games 

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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!

The two towers last battle was crazyyyy

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

The third age is one of the best rpgs ever made

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.

Read our mind after watching Rings of Power! LEGENDARY 🔥

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 😂

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 RU-vid and with dial up Internet it took awhile to watch a movie trailer

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

BFME2 on Xbox amd third age for GameCube were amazing . I still play 3rd age. Did 100% on it. Just found my 360 in garage awhile back and gonna buy bfme 2 and War of north. Some great games. And return of the king when it first came out was awesome seeing Gandalf riding down helms deep movie clip then it turning to cutscene.i was like "wow look at them graphics!" Two towers looked great too for its time especially the urah kai on helms deep missions

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

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!

Dude you leave no stone unturned love your channel

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.

my cousin and i would play the return of the king together when we went to her house. i was always legolas and she was aragorn and it was some of the fondest memories i have from that time in my life

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

Realy enjoyed this , keep up the good work

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 ^^

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

Yes! Great video your game choices are on point!

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

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

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

Funny that I played almost all of these games, being my favourite The Third Age by far.

A friend of mine used to mock me for playing The Third Age on the GBA but I love it and still play it.

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.

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.

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

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 🔥👍🏼

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!

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.

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

I still have my gamecube copy of return of the king to this day.

Return of the King is to this day my favorite movie game, followed by Star Wars Episode III. Battle for Middle Earth I and II are also some of my favorite games of all time, some of my most played, along with RotK and of course the original Star Wars Battlefront 2.

I completely forgot about Lord of the Rings: The Third Age! I played that on the ps2 back when I use to visit my grandfather's house. His brother (my great uncle?) was a big LotR fan and I would play it with him while drinking the 2 liter of dr pepper at the tender age of 12. Good memories

The Third age is one of my top 5 games of all time. I love that game

Im from the us and had never heard of CeX until 2021 when I visited the UK. they still exist there, had n64 games in good condition and gamecubes as well as new GPUs.

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

Great retrospective

Lord of the Rings, the battlefield fle Middle Earth I & II were my most favorite for PC and Xbox 360.

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.

Played the first Battle for Middle-Earth to death. It had some really awesome community creators content with the most epic settings. Never got the 2nd game as WoW took the majority of gaming time.

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

Omfg you got lotrs tactics! As a kid it was literally my only psp game think i played 1000 times! What a game 😍😍😍😍

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?

My Dad never played video games but he did enjoy playing LOTR Conquest and Halo 1.

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!

Lord of the rings conquest on ps2 was my entire childhood along side classic battlefront games and navy seals

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.

I remember playing LOTR Return of the king on PS2 in an AeroStar van on that tiny ass TV on the way to Florida with my younger brother hahaha! that was a good time. Plus at the time i didnt get a chance to watch the movie when it was in theatres right away so the fact these games had movie scenes in it was SOOO cool.

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

I really enjoyed playing Conquest and War in the North on the xbox 360. I didn't play much of Return of the King since the controls/moves/combos were harder to figure out. My internet connection was slow back then so I couldn't do much online play.

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

Lotr conquest will always have a place in my heart

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

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.

that’s so weird conquest was my first ps3 game as well 😂 loved that game to bits