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PC Gamer
Jody Macgregor

We may never see PS2 classic The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers on PC, but we got the next best thing in Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone

Zhai the half-drow holding a dagger, rendered in red on white.

PlayStation 2 hack-and-slash The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is a mainstay of the ports being begged for on the GOG dreamlist (though it doesn't rank as high as bona fide classics like Silent Hill and The Simpsons: Hit & Run, of course). According to my memories of 2004 it deserves the nomination, because The Two Towers let you recreate the battle of Helm's Deep and that's always amazing whether you're modding it into Left 4 Dead 2 or playing Lego Lord of the Rings.

It's not likely we'll ever see a PC port of The Two Towers, but fortunately its creator, Stormfront Studios, made a similar hack-and-slash shortly after and that is on PC, with a rerelease by SNEG showing up on Steam. It's Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone, which may lack the cool moments where movie Viggo Mortensen transforms into polygon Viggo Mortensen and then you get to slice up some ringwraiths, but is otherwise very much in the same mold.

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