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War Of The Ring - Tolkien RTS Previewed

Posted by simoniker on from the several-rings-to-rule-most-of-them dept.

Thanks to Blue's News for pointing to a new RPGVault interview with Liquid Entertainment about their forthcoming Tolkien-themed PC RTS, War Of The Ring. This Vivendi-published title, which we first mentioned a while back, is from the developers of Battle Realms, and is intended to be the first in an ongoing series. Topics commented on include setting - "..we will be focusing on the time of the Fellowship, most of the battles will occur in and around Rohan, with some battles in Mirkwood, The Iron Hills and Northern Gondor", and the developers also mention they want to "..please the hardcore Tolkien fans and RTS fans without alienating the casual Tolkien fan" - a tricky task?

5 of 14 comments (clear)

  1. A book? by termos · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now there is a game and a movie! Does anyone know when the book will be out?

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  2. Great! by swat_r2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now that we'll have the RTS, the FPS should soon follow, because God knows they are both dying genres! Here's hoping that The Matrix Trilogy is granted the same honour - you thought bullet time was slow..

  3. Bleh by *xpenguin* · · Score: 2, Funny

    Might as well just rename it to "Warcraft III"

  4. bleh... by ceejayoz · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Judging from the single screenshot on that page, it's not going to be a game I buy.

    If there's going to be a LOTR RTS, I want epic scale - something like Shogun: Total War. Thousands of units battling it out, not 10-20 units.

    Warcraft III made that same mistake. :-/

  5. Use the Preview Button? by Bagels · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Perhaps the person who posted the article should have used the preview button, to avoid embarassing typos like "Tolkein," which appears twice (once in the title, another in the description)? As for the game itself... unfortunately, it looks uncomfortably like a WarCraft III clone using the land of Middle Earth as a draw. I'm also a tad concerned about one aspect of the interface - some of the screenshots would seem to indicate a limit to the number of units selectable at once? This makes it a bit hard to order your thousand-strong horde of Uruk-Hai to attack Helm's Deep as one unified, screaming mob.

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