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Igtica
September 1st,2003, 11:20 PM
About this Thread

There have been a lot of topics about LoTR games in the forum recently, and to prevent cluttering the forum with repeated topics, I have created this thread where you can post all related subjects about any upcoming LoTR game (WoTR, The Hobbit etc). I urge you to use this thread to prevent the forum from being cluttered. I have merged the LoTR threads so far into this thread

Thanks,
YB!

Now let's start with Iggy's insight into RoTK and The Hobbit! :)

I went up to the Playstation Experience in London on friday, which meant i got a sneaky play of lots of games which will be released in the future such as GT4, Zone of the Enders2 and Soul Caliber 2. I also saw a exclusive to the event mini movie of the up and coming Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, as well as seeing the creator himself Mr Hideo Kojima comment on the game.

But the highlight of the event was my play on RoTK! It was such an awesome game! the grahics are much more smoother and fluid than the predecessor TTT. I happened to play with my brother, Cadoc, who also went to the event, as there is now the new edition of th co-op mode! Along with the fact the game play was less 'clostraphobic' the co-op was a much more enjoyable play. The addtion of 3 extra playable characters made a big difference. Now there is Frodo, Sam and Gandalf, as well as Gimli, Aragorn and Legolas. I chose Gandalf, and the chance to play as a wizard, which added the extra dimention of magic to the fighting. The settings are also more clearer, as well as being spacious, and the path to follow isn't so easily distinguished. meaning you have to actually run around to find the fight instead of it crossing your path. All in all, it was a much more enjoyable play!

I also happened across 'The Hobbit' which is made by a different company than that of RoTK. It really shows, as the game is made much differently. even though most of it is purposely so, it didn't have the same depth as RoTK. It's graphics are more aimed at younger children with bright colours and the classic cute cartoon effect of this type of platformer. Bilbo has bright blue eyes and roaring red hair, but is also very sweet! The large eyes just added to the 'aww' factor. Though this continues with all aspects of the game. eevn th 'baddies' such as wolves and Orcs, still carry the aww factor. The game play is simple with the usual 'collect the gems' routine'. Also frustrating as i took many a wolf bite, but one single flower managed to kill me in one attack on several occasions.

The whole day was a big sucess in my opinon, and I'm hoping to go back to the promised 'bigger event next year'. If not for the event, at least for the goody bag! It was worth more than the admission itself :D lol

Frodo
September 11th,2003, 06:40 AM
Just go here, and at the end look at the person on the farthest right.

Go here (http://www.eagames.com/official/lordoftherings/home.jsp)

EDIT: I have chosen to merge this with Iggy's awesome ROTK insight thread, as I feel this does not need a new topic. ;) If this isn't OK, please PM me. I've changed the title to encorporate this news :)
YB!

Igtica
September 12th,2003, 10:15 PM
lol well it's fine with me, Yay! I hope frodo is happy.

Frodo
September 12th,2003, 11:52 PM
I'm okay with it also

Igtica
September 13th,2003, 08:28 PM
that's cool ;) nice link btw frodo :thumbs:

Frodo
September 22nd,2003, 11:40 PM
Go here for the Demo
Fileplanet (http://www.fileplanet.com/download.aspx?f=130634)
and EA Games is making a RTS Lord of the Rings game go here for the press releas
Press Releas (http://www.eagames.com/news/lotr_rts_092203.jsp)

Tary
October 4th,2003, 05:04 PM
I think it's kind of funny every time people start geting excited about a Vivendi LOTR game EA shows us something the just blows it out of the water. Just take a look at that battles of middle earth game wow! I know where my money will be.

Saruman
October 4th,2003, 07:09 PM
Vivendi got there first, though. I don't think that EA's 'blowing it out of the water', it's just that people seem to prefer games based on the movies rather than the book.
I'm getting both, though they both have odd points. For example, in War of the Ring, Sauron's side includes Isengard, but the two had very different intentions, and, acording to a preview at Gamespot, in Battle for Middle Earth, the Ents wil be on Saruman's side!

Boromir123
October 4th,2003, 07:40 PM
Both will be awesome!

Boromir123
October 9th,2003, 12:30 AM
This is....sort of strange. Check out the warrior Crypt-Wights at this address http://thehobbit.siera.com/flash.html after typing go to the game sign, go over, press creatures and scroll down to see the Crypt-Wight descryption. I guess news travels fast in Mordor, Eh?

Frodo
October 9th,2003, 06:24 PM
Go here
The Hobbit Demo (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/hobbit/downloads.html)

Frodo
October 10th,2003, 01:18 AM
I just Tried the Hobbit Demo and it isn't very fun :(

Wally
October 11th,2003, 10:21 PM
hey all! has anybody played the rotk demo? its a level in minis tirith. pretty nifty. however, i cannot get passed the trolls! i always get clubbed. can anyone help me???? thanku in adavance

Boromir123
October 12th,2003, 09:33 PM
On my computer,It said it would take 3 hours but when it downloaded it didn't work and I had to download it again!Thanks for telling about the level it has though, sorry I cannot help you with the trolls though. Who woulda thought, one of the best levels being on the demo!

Ent_tastic
October 14th,2003, 02:49 AM
Originally posted by Wally
hey all! has anybody played the rotk demo? its a level in minis tirith. pretty nifty. however, i cannot get passed the trolls! i always get clubbed. can anyone help me???? thanku in adavance

Use the spears (I can't remember which button picks them up), it should kill the trolls pretty easily. But they are very difficult to aim with.

I like this game, but IMO it will be much better on PS2 or XBox because of the camera angles.

Boromir123
October 16th,2003, 12:27 AM
Demo download is too long. does anyone know of a place with a *Gasp* Reasonable download time? if so tell me where it is and how long. Thanks.

Igtica
October 16th,2003, 02:29 PM
hey peeps, I just gotta say that I merged those two threads on the RoTK demo as they were so similar. Boromir 123 you may like to mention what demo your looking for as it is on many differing consoles with differing graphics. If you wanna find out about the game itself please look at my review of the actual game for PS2 when I visted the playstation experience.

Thanks,

Iggy

YayBoromir!
October 16th,2003, 06:05 PM
I hope you don't mind everyone, but I'm merging this with the new LoTR games thread at the top of the page. This forum is becoming too cluttered with LoTR game topics when we only really need one.
Thanks for merging the two topics Iggy! :grin:
The Two Topics...sounds like a certain film...lol

Tary
November 7th,2003, 04:02 AM
Everybody go to www.gamespot.com and watch the new LOTR Battle for Middle Earth trailer it blew me away and made me forget about war of the ring (the game not the site).

Frodo
November 7th,2003, 05:41 PM
Yeah it look cool! Too bad i'll have to get a new video card but I doubt i'll get one :(
My Dad is an anti PC gaming person.
but it does look alot better then the War of the Ring Game.

YayBoromir!
November 7th,2003, 06:01 PM
Here's a link directly to the trailer page: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/battleformiddleearth/media.html
It looks so awesome! LoTR provides such an interesting premise for a video game! :)

Igtica
November 9th,2003, 04:47 PM
I think that there are too many threads like this so I'm going to merge it with the up and coming LoTR games thread, seeing as it would makes sense that and item of such interest should go there.