First details have emerged on Lord of the Rings: Conquest which is being developed by Mercenaries crew Pandemic.
Reported on IGN, Conquest is a bit like Star Wars: Battlefront with players able to fight it out Rings style in battles taken from Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies and combat grounds created especially for the title.
Judging by the info, Pandemic's aiming to have every man, dwarf, elf, orc, troll, good guy, bad guy, hobbit yadda yadda you can think of the from the story and chuck them into mass confrontations that can support 150 on-screen characters.
However, we're scratching heads over the news that only eight players are supported in head-to-head online multiplayer, and four in a co-op mode rampage through two campaigns on offer.
Does this mean the vast majority of on-screen fighters will be AI controlled? Presumably that's going to be the case, with you caught up in the thick of things.
"We'll freely admit that we're rabid fans of The Lord of the Rings fantasy," says Josh Resnick, co-founder and general manager at Pandemic Studios.
"Our experience creating massive, rich, action-packed games means that The Lord of the Rings: Conquest will give fans exactly what they want: full control of the blade, bow and magic to fight its epic battles any way they want - even if they choose to play from the evil side."
Lord of the Rings: Conquest is out on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 in the autumn.
Unknown LucasArts title - This new LucasArts game will be released on at least one of the seventh generation video game consoles, either the Wii, Xbox 360 or the PlayStation 3. [4] [5]. It has been rumoured but unconfirmed that this game will be a third installment in the Star Wars: Battlefront series. This rumor comes from a statement made by Peter Hirschmann, Vice President of Product Development at LucasArts, in which he used the words "Battle" and "Front" in one sentence to describe Free Radical.
Whoa, sounds pretty cool! I hope it's somewhat better than Battlefront.. but don't expect it to be particularly. Considering I love LOTR though, this has me shaking in my little boots!
Why do all games have to be "action-packed"? The LOTR books are known for other things than action. I doubt the people behind these games are REALLY fans of the books. Maybe they are fans of the action scenes in the movies?
I sure hope that someone does a single player free roaming lord of the rings game one of these days, EA dropped the ball and cancelled their version which is typical of them.
Oblivion shows what can be achieved in a real time combat rpg.
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