Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Cheats, Codes & Guides

While holding down all the L's and R's press Triangle, Triangle, X,X and you do NOT have to beat the game

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Down, Up, Triangle, Square

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Square, Circle, Square, Down

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Triangle, Down, Triangle, Up

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Square, Square, Up, Circle

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Square, Square, Circle, Circle

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Up, Circle, Down, Square

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Up, Square, Triangle, Down

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Circle, Up, Triangle, Down

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Down, Square, Down, Circle

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Down, Triangle, Up, Circle

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Triangle, Square, Up, X

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press X, Square, Up, X

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press X, Circle, Triangle, Square

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press X, X, Down, Circle

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Up, Down, Triangle, Triangle

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Circle, Triangle, X, Triangle

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Down, Square, Circle, Square

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Circle, Triangle, Square, Square

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Up, Square, Triangle, Up

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Triangle, Up, Down, Circle

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Triangle, Up, Circle, Down

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Down, Down, X, Triangle

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Circle, Circle, Down, Down

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Down, Triangle, X, Triangle

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Triangle, Up, Square, X

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Triangle, Triangle, X, Up

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Circle, Square, Down, Down

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Up, Circle, Square, Square

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Triangle, Square, Down, Up

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Down, Triangle, Down, Square

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press X, Square, X, Down

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press X, X, Square, Square

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Triangle, X, Down, Circle

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Circle, Down, Down, Down

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Square, Square, Circle, Square

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Down, Down, X, X

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Down, Circle, Up, Down

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Square, Up, Up, Down

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Down, Down, Square, Square

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Square, X, Circle, Down

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Down, Down, Square, Triangle

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Down, Triangle, X, Square

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Down, X, Down, Up

After Pausing the game HOLDL1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press X, Down, Down, Down

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Circle, Triangle, Circle, Triangle

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Square, Up, Up, Circle

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Circle, X, Circle, Triangle

After Pausing the game HOLDL1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Up, Down, Square, X

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Down, Down, Up, Up

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Circle, Circle, Triangle, Triangle

Up, Square, Triangle, X 1000 Experience for Aragorn
Up, Triangle, Up, Down 1000 Experience for Frodo
Circle, Triangle, Up, Down 1000 Experience for Gandalf
Circle, Circle Triangle, X 1000 Experience for Gimli
X, Triangle, Up, X 1000 Experience for Legolas
Triangle, X,, Down, X 1000 Experience for Sam

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press Triangle, X, Square, Square

After Pausing the game HOLD L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and press X, Circle, Down, Square

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1. controls- square always parrys, wich is extremely important if you plan to make it through this game. if you ever get cornored by way too many enemies, always parry your way out.
triangle- is the fierce attack. use this to disarmor enemies, and to quickly and fiercely slaughter all enemies in your path.well...not all. Also, if you hold it, it will charge your special attack.
circle is your physical attack i.e. kick, punch, shoulder, etc. when hit it right after your x button, it cuases the charge manuever, wich instantly knocks over a normal foe.
x button- is speed attack, not as strong as the fierce attack, but faster, and overall more effective due to its ability to deflect blows and arrows.
L1- This arms your bow and arrow, your daggers, or your magic blast. Charge and shoot them with x; the longer you hold x the more powerful they become, after a few seconds of charging, it will be at its max.
R1-this is the action button, use this when you are close to or over a blue ring of elf runes
R2- this is your finishing move, when you are standing over an enemy that has fallen over, but not dead; press this button and it will finish off most enemies.
L2-use this to jump back, out of harm's way.
R1+R2+L1+L2 activates your special attack.For hobbits, this is invisibility. For gandalf this activates a super cool force field that works like a bugzapper. For legolas,gimli,and aragorn this means a strange red light the eminates from them to make them fiercer in battle.
R3-use this one to swing your weapon around like a wild man.
L3-use this one to steer your character through the level.
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Characters, without em, this would be a button mashing fest for no apparent reason.
And enemies, what game doesnt have them?
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::the good guys::
Aragorn: hes the true king of gondor, and the hier of isildur. He's got a heckuva big sword, and is okay with a bow and arrow. hes the medium guy. A friend of the elves.

Legolas: One of the best archers in all of mirkwood, not a king or anything. His knives are the bottom of the sword bucket, but still good. His bow is rivaled only by a 12 guage.

Gimli: His axe is HUGE! hes so powerful with it, he makes aragorn and legolas' blades look like a pumpkin carving kit. however, his ranged weapon can be compared to a child's toy gun with suction cup bullets.

Gandalf: The white wizard. Once you get his top ranged weapon, you can blow just about anyone away in one blast.

Sam: slow, weak, and unrefined as heck, but still manages to get the job done. It's all good.

frodo: almost the same as sam, but in my in my opinion, he's better.

::enemies::

Uruk-hai: found in "the road to isengard" and "helm's deep" missions.
Fairly weak against gandalf.othorwise, a fairly formidable foe.

Normal Uruks: found in "tower of cirith ungol","Shelob's lair", "escape from osgiliath", "pellenor fields", "the top of the wall", "the courtyard", "the southron gate", and "the black gate" weaker than uruk-hai.

Orcs: weak sons of guns, but when they swamp you, your in a bit of a mess. use speed attack to work your way out.

Trolls: big ol' buggers, and hard hitting too. Thier one flaw is: they are extremely dumb.
You can simply outsmart them, and get rid of them. simply get them to swing thier clubs, and while they're adjusting to the recoil, quickly run behind them and hack away with fierce attack, or stand a good way out of they're club's reach, charge an arrow to full, and let fly on it. then repeat.

Oliphants: a.k.a. big elaphants with arrow towers of orcs on thier backs. Found on the pellenor fiels, and southron gates levels. Eleminate them by fully charging an arrow, aiming at one of the four panels on the side facing you, then let fly.repeat until all four panels are destroyed.

Uruk captain type 1 : Big, fat, rolie-polie version of orcs that carry a dagger and a mace.
Lure it towards you, and stay just out of its way until it swings the mace, throwing it off balance. Quickly close in on it and attack with your fierce attack, it should knock a piece of armor from it. from there constantly speed attack it until it drops.

Uruk Cpt. type 2 : medium-thin uruks that carry some sticks with very painful spikes on the end. simply parry its attacks until they momentarily halt and then fierce attack it to knock off its armor, then proceed with a constant speed attack.

::the ghosts::
found only in the first 2 missions of the path of the king. These are weaker and dead versions of the orcs mentioned above, but somehow manage to be more deadly.

::the archers::
parry until the arrows momentarily cease. Then, return fire.

::the shields::
the most irritating enemies of the game. do one fierce attack to break thier shields, then speed attack them, if they fall do a finishing move on them.

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The guide. the only true reason you wanted to see this.
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Part 1: path of the wizard
This is gandalf's path, and more than likely the hardest path in the game.

1.1 Helm's deep
your thrown into this level no matter what path you want to take. if you dont like it, go cry about it, otherwise you might as well just keep reading. This picks up where two towers left off.

At the start of the level, you are hurled right in the dabsmack middle of five uruk-hai.Teach them about the speed attack. Keep running around zapping and slashing every enemy you can. Eventually legolas will ask you and gimli for help. Run through the shield uruks, and fierce attack the one guarding the ladder. go up it, and dont stop.you'll see why. Once you are up there, press and hold L1 and go mad on the x button until aragorn asks for your assistance. Legolas will run off to aragorn, and gimli will have gone too. wich leaves you to defeat the uruk-hai that plan to hold you up. Show 'em how it's done by pressing and holding triangle right away, releasing it, only when they get near you. Then run up to the claw thing that legolas jumped down. when you see the action ring, press L1 and gandalf will flip/slide down it. Run up and use the first crossbow, then run to the second, stopping along the way to use some spears for extra points. Use that crossbow, then run to the third (again, stopping to spear some uruks), watch the explosion, and the level ends to a cool cutscene
::cutscene: gandalf-end of helms deep::
Gandalf: -raises staff- back to your master, creatures of shadow! NAY! -slams down staff-

Uruk hai go running outta there like ants out of a car's air conditioner.

::end cutscene::

part 1.2
Gandalf goes to isengard to pay a visit to an old friend...

The level starts out with a scene from the two towers movie, once it's over the game will throw you (gandalf) into fangorn forest. Luckily this part of the forest beats the crap out of two towers' path.

Run forward on the trail, nevermind the uruk-hai unless they attack you first.After a little while you'll come onto a creek bed (I think. maybe the river isen?) if you follow it, even in the slightest, you'll be treated to an ent stomping on some orcs. Continue down the trail a little more and some shield uruk-hai will attack, with an archer in a fallen log overhead.
After theyve bet your blade, continue a little further until you see some carts. Shoot them with your zapper rod (a.k.a. bow and arrow, gandalf's way) to set off an eye candy explosion. Then take care of an archer, that shows up on a tree to your front and left.
Go on to the bridge, where two shield uruks and two archers will try to ambush you.
continue up the road, slaughter the two uruk-hai, zap rod the 2 archers that also hide in the area. continue on. at the bend in the road, 2 orcs and 2 uruk-hai will attack.follow the road down into a crater where 3 ents run around, stomping and slapping thier tiny foes all over the place. Kill the greeting comitee that comes for you and go down to the edge of the path, where an Icon will appear in the upper right hand corner of your screen.wait there, and let the ents do the job for you. In case your wondering, yes the ents can hurt you. Go through the gap created by the enraged ent, kill the uruk(s) around the corner, zap-rod the archers that show up, proceed on, kill the 2 uruks and slay the 3 orcs that await you. Kill the 2 uruks that jump out at you, enjoy the glimpse of orthanc, keep going, give the 2 orcses a taste of fire. Keep going, once you see the tall, awkward archer towers, do not stop unless to shoot the crates of dynamite next to each one.
Clear the bridge, follow down the path eleminating any opposition that you encounter (note: If you listen, after gandalf yells out to suaramon that he no longer seeks his councile you can catch suaramon yelling: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!)
go to the end of the path,turn to face the screen, walk to the edge, complete the about-face, and go down. Stay back and Zap-rod the uruk-hai guard a couple of times until he collapses, the go forth and slay the archers that shoot the ent, and zap-rod across the valley to the few orc archers. after they have been eliminated, more will come to replace them, with uruk-hai on your side. Kill them all before they can engage again. This ent is kinda weak, so get ready to put ||glamdring the foe hammer|| to good use.

You know when u r playing the level that u have to use same. in the spider level use fierce attack and use finish move. In case if u don't know the buttons it (triangle and R2 button. when u use fierce attack the spider will fall down and then press r2 then the spider will die!!!
EXTRA HINT: when u play the 2 player mode its harder than the single player mode, the enemies is harder to kill. really I aint joking

Okay, this really isn't a "cheat", but it makes things easier. On the path of kings, play as Aragorn and get as many levels as you can and win the level. (perfect kills help a lot) On the next level,( king of the dead) you have to play as Aragorn or its harder than hell to kill the bugger. If the ghosts with the shields get is your way, and you have the shield smashing combo (really helps) use it to take them down. killing move etc. Arching the king also helps if you can.

To get past the crack of doom you have to defeat gollum and you have to be frodo so when you have started try to push gollum to the edge by going up to him and tapping x then when he is near the edge tap x once he should start wobbling if not keep tapping x but when you get him wobbling tap triangle then he is hanging of the edge with his hands tap R2 and he will go down keep doing this over and over again for about 8 turns and he will drop off into the lava.

AT THE BEGINNING OF THE LEVEL GO ALL THE WAY TO THE LEFT WATER THE TOWER IS. CLIMB THE STAIRS AND YOU MIGHT SEE THE DRAGON GUY FLYING AND YOU CAN ATTACK HIM. IF YOU DON'T SEE HIM WAIT

On the pelinor fields you are thrown straight into this massive war. first you have to kill 60 orcs but when you have done that you have to kill these oliphonts to do that you get out your arrows and shoot and when you have killed it another one comes so you have to run down a path go through all the war and up the other side kill that oliphont then a nazgul comes so go down the path you came up and go through to the front of the war then get out your arrows and shoot at the nazgul if you do not kill him before he flies away another oliphont will come. go up on to the side it is on and kill it then the nazgul will come again go to the same place again and if you do not kill it another oliphont will come then go and try kill the nazgul again keep doing this until the nazgul is down then you will have done the level.

To defeat Gollum you have to use square or triangle (you can also use R3) so that he is balancing on the edge of the rock. Then press square to knock him off but he is still clinging on. Then press R2 to stab him off.