Best Lord Of The Rings Games, Ranked - Switch And Nintendo Systems

There is only one great Lord of the Rings game; and he does not share power!

Never really wanted or needed to play a LOTR game.

@Lord You really missed out not playing any of the Shadow games!

Good reminder I need to load those GCN games up on the Wii U. And definitely not sweating Shadow of Mordor not being on Switch. I was so excited to get that on the xbone and couldn't have been more let down. Overrated Boromir death simulator.

would be great if they remade/upgraded the Lego LOTR. maybe not as much as Star Wars but similar.

Hackson, Boyens and the rest should NEVER have been allowed near the Tolkien Estate!

The Middle-Earth Shadow of Mordor and the sequel are the only 2 games worth talking about and they are not on Nintendo

Sigh. . .Star Wars games have always been better, just like the films. We should've stopped with the books.

“The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is not on Switch, no.”

Pro-Switch selling point confirmed!

Battle on Middle Earth RTS , Please port to Switch since got Mouse Feature

Those EA-published LOTR games absolutely need a remaster/rerelease. They were really well made and just straight to the point. Sadly, with WB owning the movie rights, don’t think it’ll ever happen. But still, they were all fun.

It’s crazy to compare movie/tv franchises in gaming back in the 90s and aughts, to now. In those times, if you saw an episode of X-Men, you’d have several different styled games to choose from and play. If you saw LOTR, you had action games that played along that story.

Now, if you watch the newest X-Men show, you’d have maybe 2 bad games to play, and a Fortnite skin. Same goes for LOTR proper (shadow of Mordor is too different for me).

Pleasantly surprised to see the GBA version of The Two Towers in the Top 5. Don't get me wrong, it's a solid game, but it can be frustrating if you're not familiar with RPG games where you have to upgrade your armor, weapons, skills, etc. I do, however, have The Two Towers on the PS2 (and I believe The Return of the King as well, if memory serves me correctly), and I enjoyed that version very much. I don't know if it's the same kind of gameplay as the GCN version, so if anyone's played both, please let me know.

And for those who don't know, the one that came out on the SNES is based on the 1978 animated film directed by Ralph Bakshi (the director behind movies like Wizards, Fire and Ice, and Cool World); you can tell by one of the screenshots in the article, which depicts one of the Hobbits. Interestingly enough, that movie is unrelated to the animated adaptations of The Hobbit and The Return of the King, which were made by Rankin/Bass Entertainment in association with Topcraft (the predecessor to Studio Ghibli).

However, since those three films largely tell the overarching story of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings book trilogy, they're often referred to as The Lord of the Rings Animated Trilogy. We would not get another animated LOTR film until this past year, when The War of the Rohirrim (which was frankly a good movie, despite what the critics and haters say) came out; and despite being animated (more specifically, an anime film directed by Kenji Kamiyama), the film is related to the live-action films directed by Peter Jackson. It's already out on digital, so if anyone wants to buy or rent it, definitely check it out!

Being fair, the top 7 are quite good or decent there. They could have gone down the licensed game route of minimal effort and use the movie franchise name to sell the game.

I played the various series' games on the PS2, the Wii & the Wii U only, admittedly, but enjoyed them on the whole. That's the trilogy book/film series as well as The Hobbit, Third Age and Aragon's quest

... Jim, were gonna need to have a word about "Aragorn's Quest". >_<

Not on nintendo consoles but Battle For middle earth was GOAT tier games. Now there are many mods to them as well. Lego Lord of the Rings great game and return of the king was superb.

I can't complain. Hey, that's a first!

Lego Lord of The Rings is an amazing experience. I chased it down for the PS3 (which is arguably the best way to play it) a few years back during the pandemic. The story telling and the fan service is par to none. There's so many jokes and easter eggs I can't keep track. Can't recommend enough and it's a shame it hasn't been ported for the Switch.

The Card Game is better than the Gollum

So after reading the descriptions, it really was the Return of The King games I played on GBA and GCN with my brother! Loved those two action games as a kid. They don't make licensed games like they used to. These days it's just the one or two play-it-safe AAA projects. I miss the old, experimental spinoffs of yore.

Not on Nintendo, but the Battlefront devs made "Lord of the Rings Conquest" and it is just incredible, highly recommended if you have some buddies to play split screen with.

LotR: The 3rd Age is one of my all time favorite games, I love it more than a lot of recent games. To be fair I played it on PS2, but it's the GC version. It's everything I wanted in a video game. Turn based, gorgeous areas and scenery, Lord of the Rings. It uses actual scenes from the movies but it's new and fresh because you're not playing as the Fellowship. The narration and voiceovers are by the original film actors. It's just fantastic in every way, as a mashup of Lord of the Rings and Final Fantasy. I only wish it were more fleshed-out, with more detail and more story. That's my only criticism; I wish there were more of this game in every aspect.