The Return of the King is the final part, the desperate acts of Gandalf, Frodo, Aragorn and their companion who want to destroy the evil plans of the evil Sauron. The previous edition Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers included sequences based both on the movie The Fellowship of the Ring and on its continuation. The Return of The King begins in a similar mode, presenting the culminating battle from Helm’s Deep from the movie The Two Towers.

In order to be sure you made an impression for the beginning, the first level automatically begins when you load the game for the first time, after a short intro scene which presents the arrival of Gandalf at sunrise along with the riders from Rohan. The defense was almost crushed, the balance being on Sauron’s forces side, but the perfectly synchronized arrival of Gandalf turns around the force ratio, the balance being now on the good side, making Sauron’s troops to retreat.

This first level shows very good the chaos and the frantically rhythm of the battle from The Two Towers, and you will discover then that all the other levels from The Return of The King are following the same rhythm, being very entertaining and spectacular.

Once you have won the battle from Helm’s Deep, you are able to open a screen from which you can access different bonus elements of the game, as you unlock them. In the beginning, the game consists in three sets of levels which are modeled depending on the different paths chosen by Gandalf, Aragorn and Frodo, the ring carrier, in The Return of The King. The path of the wizard and the hobbit are shorter than the path of the king chosen by Aragorn, but in order to finish this journey you will have to finish first the other two challenges. This structure reflects very well the fact how these characters are forced to go on different paths in The Return of The King, but also underlines the efforts made by each one which are for a common goal: destroying the ring, and along with it, eliminating Sauron, his general Saruman, and their terrifying armies.

As you may expect, The Return of the King goes a lot on the action and the elements from the movie with the same name. The story of the game is very related to the movie, so if you have no knowledge of the movie, if you haven’t seen it yet, it will be hard for you to follow the game, although along the game some things are being clarified.

;The Return of The King includes a great variety of characters with which you can play. If you will choose the path of the king, you will be able to choose between Aragorn, Legolas or Gimli. You will play with Gandalf if you choose the path of the wizard, and the hobbit path if you want to play with Frodo and his friend Samwise. Even if you have played the similar game

The Two Towers, you can expect for all these characters to have different sets of moves. The speed and the style of the attacks is different, but each attack is powerful and in good use.