The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers FAQ/Walkthrough

By Zephyrmaster

2. Menu's and Options

The Main Menu
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New Game
Load Game
Multiplayer
Options

Explanations:
Multiplayer - Connect to play with another player. You can only play with one other person. Both players must have a game pak in their gameboy advance systems.

Option Menu
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Music (On/Off)
Music Volume (0 to 10)
SFX (On/Off)
SFX Volume (0 to 10)
Fast Discard (On/Off)
Difficulty (Normal, Hard, Grueling)
Language Select

Explanations:
Fast Discard - If you turn it OFF, the game will ask you to confirm your choice each time to want to discard an item.

In game Menus:

Select Menu
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Save Game
Objectives
Artifacts
Options
Quit Game

Explanations:
Objectives - See your current goal.
Artifacts - Look at your collected artifacts.

3. How to play

In game screen
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- Your selected skill appears in the upper lefthand corner
- The Eye of Sauron measures your corruption and appears in the upper righthand corner.
- The orb in the lower lefthand corner represents your health.
- The orb in the lower righthand corner represents your spirit points
- The bottom bar shows your current experience level. When it fills up you gain a level.

Buttons
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Control Pad - Move
A - Use Active Skill
B - Attack
Holding B - Powerful Attack
L - Cycle through skills
R - Pick up an item
Select - Pause Menu
Start - Backpack screen

Backpack Screen (press start to access)
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- Your character can hold up to 8 items.
- Your character can equip a weapon, a shield, armor, a cloak, a helmet, a necklace, a whetstone, and boots.

To equip an item, select it by pressing A. You can equip several items, and you can discard any.

Skills Screen (press L on backpack screen to access)
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- Shows your active (must be used with A button) and passive skills (always active).
- Skills can be increased when you recieve a skill point. You recieve skill points for gaining levels or by killing enemies in increments of 500 (500, 1000, 1500, ... etc...)

Statistics Screen (press R on backpack screen)
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- Shows your Level, Experience, Next Level (experience required for the next level), Hit Points, Spirit Points, Damage, Armor Quality, To Hit, Dodge, and Shield Block.
- Shows your primary attributes (can be increased when you gain a level), which are Strength, Accuracy, Health, Defense, and Courage.
- It also shows the number of enemies you have killed and the amount of gems you have.

Explanations of Primary Statistics (when increased):
Strength - Increases damage and health
Accuracy - Increases change to hit
Health - Greatly increases hit points
Defense - Increases chance to dodge
Courage - Greatly increases spirit points and marginally increases health points.