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First Looks at LotR - Return of the King

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the gondor-and-beyondor dept.

I was perusing Gamers.com this morning and saw that they've posted a couple previews of the next Lord of the Rings game, Return of the King. There's a preview of the console version, as well as a look at the PC version. The producer of the games comments that: "The two key areas we wanted to make sure we nailed this time around were the addition of co-op and better interaction with the levels... If last year's game was Golden Axe meets Lord of the Rings, then this year's game is Gauntlet meets Lord of the Rings."

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  1. Re:Co-Branding? by L7_ · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There is no way for companies to do this.

    Universal Studios owns the rights to make movies of the LotR works. (I think its Universal, but the actual company is irrelevant).

    The software publisher that owns the rights to distriubute video games (they pay a studio to design/code it for them) based on the LotR series is not Universal Studios, nor does it have any connection with Universal.

    What you're talking about won't happen unless some of the media/movie companies start to buy out video game publishers, or video game publishers start to buy out movie studios. They are separate licensing agreements. The game publisher would have to make a deal witht he movie studio (and probably with the people they bought the rights from) to do a joint distribution of game and dvd.

    So, you will see a DVD and movie tickets promotion, but you will never see game+movie promotions, they are separate entities.

    P.S. Don't ask me why books from a publisher often have screencaptures from movies on thier cover after the movie is released. :|