Command & Conquer Team Take On LoTR RTS

Thanks to GameSpy for their unveiling of a new PC real-time strategy title based on the Lord Of The Rings movies. Not to be confused with Vivendi's book-based War Of The Ring RTS we covered a couple of days back, in this title, "EA and the C&C Generals team are bringing their own brand of RTS gameplay to Tolkien's world.", and the tech demo screenshots from this large-scale, early-in-development title look intriguing, as the developers try to "capture the epic cinematic flavor of the three film's battles (including Helm's Deep, Ithilien, and Minas Tirith) by combining content from all the movies."

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I hope the Helm's Deep battle scenario...

[HaloZero]

...goes better than it did during Development of The Two Towers.

(Referencing the bug in which the AI controlling the CGIed Uruk-hai, in attempting to cause the most damage with the fewest casualties, turn around and ran away from the scene on the first take. That would make for a lousy campaign.)

Generals look

[AzraelKans]

Wow, I definetily would like to check this one out, IMO Generals was an underapreciated game for its time, to begin with it was the first RTS game using "next generation" techniques (real time shadows, vertex shaders) so that made it slower than the competition even on high end pcs. Second: it came out in a real bad time just as war was about to start and it actually themed the american and "terrorist" army (heck George Bush appeared in the intro video) calling it a "not sensible" issue is a bit of an understatement. But all things checked graphically and gameplay wise is not bad at all, is much more realistic than any other C&C but without trapping it in a simulation status, it boosts some features that help you not to take it too seriously, like choppers who can refill their ammo in mid air or command centers than can be stablished 2 feet away from the enemy base, not to mention the constant homage/parody to "black hawk down".

In my opinion that game with the LOTR theme, will work wonders Generals was great but it tapped a truly sensitive theme and that made it a lot less fun than it should.