Command & Conquer Team Take On LoTR RTS

Posted by simoniker on Monday September 22, 2003 @02:53AM from the franchise-of-the-kerchings dept.

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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Confused. by Schnapple · 2003-09-22 04:14 · Score: 2, Interesting

Could someone out there point out to me a good place to sum up all of the recent LOTR games? I can't remember who's making what game or what they're based off of (i.e., the FOTR game based off of the books, the FOTR game based off the movie, the FOTR game based off of the breakfast cereal, etc.)
Also, how is it that so many people are making so many games based off of LOTR? How is it EA didn't sew them all up?

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And when will this be released? by zoobaby · 2003-09-22 08:59 · Score: 2, Interesting

I love previews of games that will be out when? Next Week? Next Month? Next Year? 2 Years?

I really can't get excited about a game that I will not be able to play until 2005.