LOTR: War in the North developer diary

Published 16 February, 2011 Duration 2:37

Behind the scenes at Snowblind Studios.

Comments (9) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • knightmt #1 1 year ago

    Looks great, I really like the artistic design and textures used in the game play.

  • spekkeh #2 1 year ago

    Yeah.. I'm not really feeling it. Sure you can have a beat-em up RPG in Middle-Earth that is dark and gritty and has brutal combat, but I'm pretty sure that's not what Tolkien envisioned. I thought the main part of the story was where the characters, not in the least two certain hobbits, were desperately trying to evade battle.
    Edited by spekkeh at 16/02/11 @ 15:30

  • Murton #3 1 year ago

    I'm so stoked for this.

    Day one, definitely.

  • Osahi #4 1 year ago

    If it is as good as Champions of Norrath, I'm in.

    I played actually that game years ago thinking 'how cool would it be if it was placed in Middle Earth' :D

  • Scopeh #5 1 year ago

    Will wait for a review and the Cynical thoughts of my fellow gamers before i buy.

  • ShiftyGeezer #6 1 year ago

    @spekkeh : You're thinking just of the Fellowship of the Ring. The Hobbits snuck around because they weren't warriors. Across the rest of Middle Earth there was serious fighting, even the other half of the Fellowship after it split, and Tolkien made a point of that. He even had the Scourge of the Shire as an epilogue where the hobbits, battle-hardened, returned to fight for the freedom of their land. ME had plenty of wars between the races and such. You have to bare in mind that Tolkien didn't just write LOTR as his story, but he created a mythology of which the LOTR was one saga. He fleshed the rest of Middle Earth out with many stories and ideas typical of the Norse and Germanic mythologies he was emulating in creating a mythology for England.

    So basically, a game of playing warriors duffing up orcs is a natural fit - more so that EA's film tie-ins!
    Edited by ShiftyGeezer at 16/02/11 @ 18:48