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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (video game)

2002 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 9, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is a 2002 hack and slash game developed by Stormfront Studios for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. A 2D Game Boy Advance game of the same name was made by Griptonite Games, a port to the GameCube by Hypnos Entertainment, and to mobile by JAMDAT. A version for Microsoft Windows developed by Ritual Entertainment was cancelled during development. The game was published on all platforms by Electronic Arts. It is an adaption of the 2002 film of the same name. Originally released in North America for the PlayStation 2 in October 2002, it was released in November 2002 for the Game Boy Advance, in December 2002 for the Xbox and GameCube, and in May 2003 for mobile.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (video game)” is 2002 video game. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Lord, Rings and Towers, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Lord, Rings and Towers is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (video game)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.