The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Review 

Yo review John Woo's Stranglehold.

hi love your videos

also are you interested in any kind of halo stuff?

How did you get Sean astin to do this! I mean hes super chill, but mad props for reaching out!

Wow, that's weird. This isn't Lego Racer 2.

Yes.

Nobody knows who that is.

@@Saneek0215 i hope you're trolling.

At this point I've just given up. If it exists, Mandalore has access.

I nearly fell out of my chair

Holy shit was also the exact thought that came to my head!

@@LostLEGION123 i know right!

holy shit!!!1

Santa Merda!!!!!!

i shit myself

It is funny how Sean Bean's character dies in the story. His characters just can't get a break.

Sean Astin looks like a legit dude fr

I don't know man it felt like Sean was rambling incoherently for that whole interview clip to me

@@dilanrajapaksha a little bit, but it was a very fun little interview

yea its called cameo and its entirely cash motivated

i could listen to his stories for hours

Rambling Sean is pretty great.

Wow i thought you were joking. That's awesome!

Ik seriously how did they even do that?

You can just pay him to make a video for you on one of those "celebrity message" websites, forgot the exact name

Cameo

The actual Sean would have been Sean Bean. :D But yeah, what a surprise.

He paid him lol

Still, getting the clip is pretty sick.

@@teddybear1792 You know this?

@@Kyle_Schaff It's in the name. Cameo is a paid service. You can basically give any celebrity on there some money and in return they'll make a video for you based on your request. Mandalore's is basically just a quick Q&A. Nothing wrong with it. He gets paid for his time and Mandalore gets to ask a question. He put in a decent amount of effort with the question, too, which was cool of him.

same, and one of things about the game was that it allowed us to play as anyone in any level after we beat it, so I could be Legolas in every level

me and my brother did that as merry and pippin, because we thought it was funny

Same, i did with Legolas to level him up and get that purple arrows or whatever that was. To hit with them on next map, pellenor fields :d

SAME! also that sweet xp for leveling up

my little sister and I would do that for hours with the perfect mode cheat on, arguing over who's orc that was... i was always legolas of course and stole them

Duuude remake this gem on the new console

Remaster it now! With online coop.

Thanks for your hard work on this gem !

This game is awesome, played it tons as a teen, you all did great work on it!

Can you explain who was responsible for making the music for one of the trailers the requiem for a dream theme?

me and my nephew would have a sleepover almost every weekend and play the shit out of this

And now they’re dead. Thanks ea

A horror game set in Middle-earth could be cool hehe, while we're at it (their Dead Space was definitely cool) just a random thought. Willie Hawaii : unfortunately that's EA for you, they never seem to do something right, I mean come on, they decided to cancel, CANCEL, Lotr White Council which could have been first truly great open wold RPG set in Middle-earth setting, the first Lotr based story driven RPG single player experience I'm waiting for years, they can be really dumb :).

It added a whole new level of awesomeness and wholesomeness to an already great video. :)

"MY HEART IS FILLED WITH BOTH GREAT HOPE MY HEART IS FILLED WITH BOTH GREAT HOPE MY HEART IS FILLED WITH BOTH GREAT HOPE"

Hack n slash genre came before Lego video games lol. Lego games are just a more "family friendly" hack n slash 6:18 Turn captions on lol. Had gut feeling it wasn't Orlando Bloom, still dunno if wasn't Viggo (Two towers game definitely had pretty much all same voice actors)

Well, this comment certainly took a turn

i didnt know where this comment Was going but i didnt expect this haha

Well played, sir.

Ooof

He got him by paying him $200 through a website

@@SnaresAndNets Have a link to the site?

Ryan Kent fiverr I guess

Berserk

XD

He just can't get a break huh?

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S C O O B thank you

@@bruhSaintJohn you're welcome

I remember watching my dad playing this game

Literally. Such an overused and misused word.

I liked the two towers game because it seemed a bit harder and the color palette was colder. But this game was denser, more things go on etc.

This game was the first time I pulled an all nighter

This, Lord of The Rings the 3rd Age, and Star Wars Galactic battlegrounds were mine.

Bro I just googled it. SEAN ASTIN IS 48!?!? He looks like he JUST turned 30. Wow!

Goonies came out 34 years ago this week.

Its Okay Dude, I feel the same way....and I'm 17!!

fuck you're right

This sucks.

Sycophant

The Two Towers was just as amazing. I miss these games.

Goldeneye..?

Play king Kong. It's also great

For the longest time, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay was _the_ standard/benchmark of how to do a license game right (to the point that everyone said it was better than the movie). Try it out sometime - only, play the original, NOT the remake.

Yes please!

😹

Yes holy shit!

no.. please, no! Vin Diesel as a person is the living definition of cringe^^

Awesome game but no Vin Diesel pls

Did Sean snort a line of something before recording that?

You open your flower shop yet?

Ikr

I really hope it wasn't a cameo thing and Mandy just emailed Sean and Sean was happy to tell his part of the story.

@@TheTGOACOf course it's a cameo thing lol... how can you all be so naïve

I can still hear the sound!

same tbh

So have I!! It's crazy, man!

Yes!!

@@Arhtass YEEesS

Same. And everytime I play bad I hear Dom McMonaghan: One of the worst players of all time (about Billy Boyd)^^

His tower is on lease.

Where did this meme come from? I kept seeing it again and again

www.tolkiensociety.org/2014/04/grrm-asks-what-was-aragorns-tax-policy/

@@gluever54 George RR Martin's quote on Tolkien.

Derivative of something G.RR.Martin said. "What was Aragorn’s tax policy" in reference to finding lines & sentiments such as " Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good." being a little lacklustre in his eyes, what does it mean to be a good ruler? Just because your a good person or a brave warrior doesn't necessirly correlate with having prosperity. Another fun quote is "Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?".

Based and orc-bane pilled.

I thought I was the only one doing this, big "W"

best comment ever!

Still fire in 2023

He had to hold back his epic roasts to save Elijah's feelings

Sean Astin and Sam are two differents person.

Stranger Things

For gays maybe...

I thought that was Patton Oswald.

@Flawful _ Look after yourself snowflake.

Also 50% of the Fellowship's weight.

@@bilbobaggins5938 What's its doing?!?!?

That took my by surprise as well ... boy, and Sean Astin doesn't look 20 years older. Remember, the movies where done in 1999, and he looks like maybe 5 years older. 10 max. Not 20.

SAMWISE GAMGEE: Orc slayer

@@AlexJones-ue1ll Goonies is also a blast from the past, so many great actors in it, including Marvel's big bad Mr Brolin himself making some early gains

well, he was bought by T series after all

His second channel has been doing really well lately, who knew being an African warlord could give you so much pull.

John Doe wait, is he actually Sseth?

@@connormccormack7953 Yesn't.

@@connormccormack7953 He is Sseth but straight and without goblin fetish.

@The Legend of Texas stop with with the lies youre not from texas

@@dirpyturtle69 Quit kidding yourself, you are actually a wise sea-god, and deep down you know it!

It reminds me of the canned animations old games like Half-Life and Deus Ex would use, more specifically those skull knight dudes in Thief with the really fancy sword work.

AKSebi2 same here, still have it for my Playstation 2 and it is still alot of fun. Path of the dead and the dead king gave me nightmares as a child 😅

Me too, grinding that EXP!

I wish my ps2 would still be working :( Nostalgia getting real right now

Aaaw I'm so glad to hear that from you anyway

@@GinoNL oh goddess! I feel very sorry for the inconvenience and what happens to yours truly. I hope you will be able to either emulator and or with a different Ps system resurge yourself onto this wonderous sensations that you felt my friend

The Guy literally tries to walk into level 5 and is zapped to death, just as Boromir said "One doesn't simply walk into..."

cake

The Guy with 99 lives!

twink solidarity

I'm surprised anyone caught that reference.

I was trying to place the music, thank you

Stronghold, I havnt heard that name in years

RETIRE MY LORD?!?

Wood needed

The Rats troops are attacking!

Thank you.

*Slow clap...* You beautiful son of a bitch.

Nice timing, I was planning to watch a few of your vids

"the beat person"

Holy shit me too! I love that I haven’t played this for like 15 years but i still remembered Elijah talking about magically picking up the controller and playing the game without touching a single button 😂😂

@Mike McCokiner ahahah been quoting that ever since the first time i saw it

I have shed a tear. Remember Gimli saying gameplayers instead of gamers?

I remember replaying it with my little brother over and over again. Gandalf was op though

The weird way you got floating swords etc. In the cut scenes when you replayed a mission with a different character made me laugh though.

@@iamwritingrightnow8217 yeah, his magic missile attack was OP. Legolas in the Two Towers game was way more OP, when fully leveled, though. His arrow attack was basically Gandolfs missiles but with 3 or 4 arrows at a time. I was the Aragorn player, and I hated playing co-op with my brothers 😕 haha

Mine were at the gates of Mordor. Keeping THREE characters alive (Gandalf, Gimli and Legolas In my case) while keeping YOURSELF alive In a 3 part survival stage with little to no health recovery items was hell on single player.

Hans Peter Hey Hey people, Frodo Baggins here

@@sneedsfeedseed9905 SHUT UP AND TAKE MY SHEKELS

He did already as his sseth fursona.

@@rightbehindyou973 I'm wet

Did I read you right ? MOUNT YOUR BANEBLADE

It BROKE me to hear that for his part and the next few minutes after, the nostalgia hit was doubled from that

came here to find someone else who heard it to. FYI If you miss stronghold, its available for Mac on GOG.com

No taxes is one thing but ah, what about a small gift? Go on...

Heey!! I also was looking for a comment about Stronghold, Stronghold gang where you at?!!

@@zandergamer5429 nooo taxxxessss are good taxes thats my motto

just don't look at how the Hobbit actors all look now

@@echodelta2172Did you see Sean Astin?? He looks great!

Sick cameo right? I hope he gets The Rock next time.

Glass breaks

i half expected sharks to start flying around

where is the full film? Anyone know who made it?

It's called Dragonfyre. The opening is totally awesome and hilarious, it gets more and more boring as the novelty wears off and the dull characters and story reveal themselves. Watch it with friends and roast the movie, that'll extend your enjoyment a fair bit.

Same, those were my very first games for my PS2. I was sooooo confused when I played The Third Age and didn't recognize anyone!

I loved third age as a kid, even booted it on an emulator recently and still loved it

@@walter1383 Same!! I have the 3 of them for PS2 and 3rd Age was my least favourite cause I didn't think I was playing LoTR because of how different it was from the other 2. My favourite was deffinetly Return of The King.

Don’t know which I liked more this or two towers. Third age I actually had to use one of those cheat discs to complete; when you bought the ps2 magazine you got demo and cheat discs

Orc Wars. Also known as Dragonfyre in some countries.

@@MandaloreGaming Soo...it's not porn? I am throughly disappointed.

Grow up.

@@unearthlyenemy It looks like a porno because of the film quality

@@unearthlyenemy Pull the stick out of your ass.

r/thishappened.

XXXXXXXXXXXDDD take an up doot bro

"Haha wow yeah i totally remember playing with you random fan #3127"

@@IKMojito late reply but we were partied together in CoD and he remembered my gamer tag cause it was dumb and silly.

@Ron 3 And then Legolas unlocks that broken ability that lets him fire 2 arrows at once, and still with only that less-than-1-second charge of his! Great memories. And then there's Gimli... taking an eternity to charge his axe throws lol

I was the older brother...

That's why I picked Gandalf, his magic stole a few kills and everyone else was too slow 😂

I was an older brother of the two, but Gimli was my favorite character of the 3 orc hit squad, while my brother's fave was Legolas lol. Never felt more guilty for dropping the dwarf.

Pelennor Fields was my favourite level because of the Mumakil.

Yep definitely in the golden age of video games (98/99 - 04/05). Video games definitely dropped off around a few years later after this. Two towers was also very solid (thankfully discovered that first back in the day, had a ton more coolness and shiny factor imo, maybe just had to do with me being younger (would probably be harder going from Rotk to ttt with less interactive attack elements (pushing things over or using spears)/ characters), & before this game the best hack n slash I'd played was Jedi power battles-- hell of a game very difficult and frustrating regardless single or multiplayer, still fun tho, but this game for casual fun beat the pants off of Jedi power battles, and only really beat by god of war 1-3 for best hack n slash games, which of course I didn't play until years later) Yeah, good times. Still don't understand why they don't make frenetic crazy video games like this any more (or Kotor, Jedi outcast/ academy, bounty hunter) must have to do with family friendly politically correct franchises taking over idk. But back in the day video games were the go-to easy fun

@@Dman9fp this, Two Towers, Jedi Power Battles, and Shaolin Monks defined my childhood

Oh my god, goonies kid is 50? How old am I, what year is it?

Damn.I thought he was in his late thirties or something. The more you know huh

well he did wear the ring...

along with king arthur's game

Hell yeah. On the gamecube lol

I played the return of the king so many times... Two towers I played later on and didn't get into it as much as return of the king... It's just too good

Since all major battles starting with helms deep are in the ROTK game, which moments are there in the Two Towers one?

Moria Amon Hen The battle of Helm’s Deep before Gandalf’s arrival are the major ones.

The Legend of Texas If that’s supposed to be a “Trouble with the trolley, eh?” joke I’m going to throw a fit

I remember just not enjoying it. At least other people could.

I'm still waiting for that proper open world story driven RPG in style like Elder Scrolls, Witcher 3, Gothic or even Dragon Age, a good single player experience. Damn shame they cancelled Lotr: The White Council, that could have been awesome (damn you EA!!) :) The Battle for Middle-earth was probably among the most enjoyable RTS out there :).

Both BfME Rts-es are great, and both have their own traits and quorks. I particluary like how first game while following story line of movies takes some "creative liberties" ( like Gandalf beats barlorg and doesn't leave the fellowship ). Oh, and how Legolas is op as F**k. I still remeber vividly how after finishing the campain with good side, I looked upon final killcounts and he sits as undispiuted king on top with like 1100+ kills. Gandalf was "close" second with around 880 ( tho he killed like almost 400 targets in final mission alone ). Seaqule is overall better game, tho one thing I don't like as much about is is how ring powers are more impactful. Fist game had most overpowerd ones on, as it should be, very end of the line. In BfME2 you get stuff like rain of arrows that can instant-win a large battle, on what, 15 points mark ? Still, great game. I wish custom hero creator for skirmish was mechanic that more games would adopt...

@@ComissarYarrick I actually reviewed the second one for my channel! The first one is fine, but replaying it recently I found myself getting really bored. It was really fun to play the story missions like the battle of Helms Deep, but the filler inbetween got to be way too much for me. The powers I thought myself were fine, they were balanced by fairly long recast timers for ones like the arrow barrage. Plus you're given plenty of warning when it's about to come to micro your army out of the path. I do agree on the custom heroes, they were fun if a bit broken at times.

The Entire cast of Endgame having a Skype converrsation with the cast of Lord Of The Rings(wait for it)... WITH the cast of Star Trek. *Mind Explodes from too much awesome*

Seriously. There was no way it wasn't a porn. I mean damn. Look at that acting.

@@WittyUsername816 It looked like the dude had a semi good prone position with the 50 cal. The chick was hot, though.

It looked like a really weird parody, but it being porn makes too much sense.

Dragonfyre. Very shitty movie made for the Sci-Fi channel. Sadly it is not porn.

Shitty? That movie was amazing!

Underrated comment :D

Devin Farrell enjoy the brief wave of nostalgia, don't live in it though.

I have one question. Why were you abandoned in a psych ward at such a young age?

I was disruptive in school, diagnosed with adhd, was bullied and was very tempermental at the time. I didn't know how to deal with a lot of things that were happening to me and I was very energetic and couldnt sit still well. I didn't have a lot of friends, and I connected to other "outcasts". I was a problem for too long in school and my parents were despearte to try figure out my problems and in their defense were trying to help me and steer me right. They say they regret it now but I don't think my mom does entirely, she was an RN and relies too heavily on medicine and doctors instead of the type of help that I needed. If I had a problem she would tell me to make an appointment to see x doctor or do a quick google as if I couldn't google myself. Dont get me wrong I love my parents but they can be really fucking retarded and their actions have many times caused me no end of grief. After the hospital I spent from 3rd grade until I finally managed to get out of it at an alternative school when I came back to regular pubblic school that wasn't an hour away in the 10th grade. But as you can imagine adjusting back to that enbironment which I so held to a high standard and strived to get badck to in my head which turned out to be not what I though t it was was very difficult as well, so I never stopped battling. But I did it differently then most people I knowor hear about. I never wanted to take meds (they put me on all kinds of shit since the hospital) I thought ever since I was a lid that if I need a handful of pills to have a decent mind to get through life then that was a problem, and that that wasn''t the way to deal with it. I saw through all the bullshit that they tried to feed me in the hospital and in that horrible school system. It was honestly like one of those gaslighting/brainwashing horror books or something but maybe not quite so extreme. Now after climbing the biggest mountains I've ever climbed (horrible, crippling panic attacks and anxiety, social skills and awareness, and many many other core problems) mostly all by myself with the world telling me it was hopeless but with some help from my dad and my family, I'm a sound person, my foundation is strong, I've done many things I've always wanted to do, and I'm a completely different person then I was then. My world is definitely not the same as when i was 6 nobody's is, but it feels like I'm finaally a person again or that I exist again ever since it all changed when I was 8 until I got out of high school and was nearly done with college. Now I can go on living again. So when I see people saying they need these drugs, or people giving people advice on forums and sureddits saying they should look into medication and all that, I get annoyed. Yes medication can help and everyone needs help to be able to get back on their feet but nobody unless they have certain issues (such as autism or such like my nephew) should rely on it forever. My stubborness is what got me into messes but also what essentially saved me from falling. Because when I look back, I realise that the shit I went through was not normal and that it wasn't all my fault. It was just a bunch of bad shit from and bad reactions from people who care and people who didn't care who should have cared making things worse that lasted way too long.

@@tinytaz94 I know. I've learned not to. Thanks though

This game and Lord of the Rings made up a lot of my childhood too. I would pretend to be the characters or build lego sets of castles resembling those from the movies. I was born in 1996, i'm 23 so we're about the same age and probably have some similar life experiences. But what you had to go through must've been hard. I hope you're doing okay now though.

Athel Loren is the Ent forest on steroids.

Durthu aka Optimus Pine

Cant tell if its Durthu or his many Larping cousins that are the edgier insaner ones... I'd have to to with the Elf babysitter