![]() ![]() Goldeneye 64 defined “social gaming” for an entire generation. The Lion King for the Super Nintendo was an iron-hard challenge that functionally bullied thousands of children. for the Atari was famously overproduced and sold so poorly that it was dumped in a landfill. Movie tie-in games have always been wild cards in the video game economy. This partially has to do with the genre that the game finds itself in. What was so magical about The Two Towers is that the bending of the Lord of the Rings films’ plot to video game tendencies felt both perfectly executed and somehow missed the point of the entire series. Viggo Mortensen would be on the screen, and then he would morph into a lumpy digital Aragorn who you could control, in third-person action gameplay that was a little bit Gauntlet Legends and a little bit Devil May Cry. The game took the strange route of combining live-action footage from the films with in-engine cutscenes and gameplay, stitching these two mediums together “seamlessly” to make it all one thing. Bizarrely, its content was half Fellowship of the Ring and half The Two Towers, but at the time we were willing to accept that. A multiplatform game that first appeared in October of 2002 for the Playstation 2, it was released two months before the film of the same name. Into this fray stepped EA Games’ The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli were left to their own devices. Frodo the Ringbearer and his companion Sam had fled toward the eastern horizon in search of a mountain that could kill a piece of jewelry. ![]() ![]() We knew that a fellowship of hobbits, men, an elf, and a dwarf had dispersed during the holiday season of 2001. So each Wednesday throughout the year, we'll go there and back again, examining how and why the films have endured as modern classics. Tolkien (Novel), Fran Walsh (Screenplay), Fran Walsh (Producer), Philippa Boyens (Screenplay), Andrew Lesnie (Director of Photography), Grant Major (Production Design), Joe Bleakley (Art Direction), Philip Ivey (Art Direction), Rob Outterside (Art Direction), Mark Robins (Art Direction), Alan Lee (Set Decoration), Alan Lee (Conceptual Design), John Howe (Set Decoration), John Howe (Conceptual Design), Ngila Dickson (Costume Design), Richard Taylor (Costume Design), Victoria Burrows (Casting), John Hubbard (Casting), Liz Mullane (Casting), Sala Baker (Stunts), Dan Hennah (Set Decoration), Dan Hennah (Supervising Art Director), Michael Horton (Editor), Jabez Olssen (Additional Editor), Brent Burge (Sound Effects Editor), David Farmer (Sound Designer), Robert Shaye (Executive Producer), Kyrsten Mate (Sound Effects Editor), Jules Cook (Assistant Art Director), Jim Berney (Visual Effects Supervisor), Jeremy Woodhead (Makeup Artist) and others.2021 marks The Lord of the Rings movies' 20th anniversary, and we couldn't imagine exploring the trilogy in just one story. , Mark Ordesky (Executive Producer), Michael Lynne (Executive Producer), J.R.R. Osborne (Producer), Howard Shore (Original Music Composer), Christopher Boyes (Sound Re-Recording Mixer), Peter Jackson (Screenplay), Peter Jackson (Producer), Bob Weinstein (Executive Producer), Harvey Weinstein (Executive Producer) more. , Ian McKellen (Gandalf), Liv Tyler (Arwen), Cate Blanchett (Galadriel), Christopher Lee (Saruman), Billy Boyd (Pippin), Dominic Monaghan (Merry), Hugo Weaving (Elrond), Miranda Otto (Éowyn), David Wenham (Faramir), Brad Dourif (Gríma), Karl Urban (Éomer), John Noble (Denethor (Extended Edition)), Sean Bean (Boromir (Extended Edition)), Craig Parker (Haldir), Bruce Allpress (Aldor), John Bach (Madril), Sala Baker (Man Flesh Uruk), Jed Brophy (Sharku / Snaga), Sam Comery (Eothain), Calum Gittins (Haleth), Phil Grieve (Hero Orc), Bruce Hopkins (Gamling), Paris Howe Strewe (Théodred), Nathaniel Lees (Ugluk), John Leigh (Háma), Robbie Magasiva (Mauhúr), Robyn Malcolm (Morwen), Bruce Phillips (Rohan Soldier), Robert Pollock (Mordor Orc), Olivia Tennet (Freda), Raymond Trickitt (Bereg), Stephen Ure (Grishnakh), Timothy Lee (Wildman (Extended Edition)) and others. Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn), Elijah Wood (Frodo), Sean Astin (Sam), Andy Serkis (Gollum), Bernard Hill (Théoden), Orlando Bloom (Legolas), John Rhys-Davies (Gimli / Treebeard (voice)) more. ![]()
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