EA And New Line Extend Lord Of The Rings Deal News
All-new title the centrepiece of a new deal that extends the partnership through 2008...
By Jon WilcoxPosted: 28/03/2007
Electronic Arts and New Line Cinema have today confirmed an extension to their deal to produce videogame based on the Lord of the Rings feature films, which will result in a new unannounced title based in the world of Tokien.
"The Lord of the Rings is an incredible canvas to create epic games," said Frank Gibeau, EA's executive vice president and general manager of North American publishing. "We look forward to our next project with New Line Cinema and Tolkien Enterprises scheduled to ship in 2008."
"We have a long history of making great games with EA and are thrilled to extend our longstanding relationship," said David Imhoff, New Line's senior executive vice president of worldwide licensing and merchandising. "We look forward to working closely with EA to create even more compelling Lord of the Rings adventures in the future."
EA had been working on an open-world RPG set in Middle-Earth called The White Council, but it's unclear as to whether this new title will be a resurrection of the stalled next-gen development or something entirely new. The fact that the deal has only been extended by 12 months is something of a significant point, and does suggest that the title may be the last Lord of the Rings title from EA...
The adventures of Frodo Baggins and the rest of the Fellowship continue to be prove ripe for videogame development as Codemasters Online Gaming and Turbine's MMO Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar readies itself for release at the end of April.
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The Lord of the Rings: Conquest
Available on:PC, 360, PS3, DS
Pandemic Studios
Publisher:EA Games
Release Date:Out Now
Players:1-16
Age Rating:16
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Added:Fri 17th Apr 2009 17:19, Post No: 56
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Added:Fri 17th Apr 2009 01:52, Post No: 54
CAN EVERYBODY PUT A SOCK IN IT!!! Conquest is awesome. Lotr fans will love it and so will many others.The only reason you hate Conquestis is because you play your fancy $600 graphic extravagenzas which seem like more virtual life simulaters with violence then real RPG's. You are all looking at graphics, sound, charecter models instead of whats the real meaning of video games, FUN. Did you see the people playing Space Invaders complain about the graphics? I dont think so!!
Added:Wed 04th Feb 2009 13:47, Post No: 53
Have we been playing the same game???
The visuals are muddy, the textures and bland, the character models look barely PS2 quality...
The gameplay is dull, repetitive, far from epic, and just plain hideous...and Howard Shore's incredible music is just about the only thing that's good about Conquest.
Added:Tue 03rd Feb 2009 22:44, Post No: 52
You have no idea about what your talking about. This game is awesome! And please, you sound like a freak when you say this games graphic is bad!!!
All LOTR fans will absolutly love this game. Scenarios are beautifull, animations are greatly done, and the game is pure entrertaning.
Added:Sun 01st Feb 2009 03:38, Post No: 51
I allways wanted a Battlefront for Lord of the Rings!
Added:Sun 01st Feb 2009 03:33, Post No: 50
I realy hoped that Panemic would make another yet again another battlefront just in the form of a lord of the rings game. The game lacks two inportant things
Added:Sat 31st Jan 2009 01:31, Post No: 49
Games like this is why we pirate everything.
Added:Thu 29th Jan 2009 10:02, Post No: 48
The only thing good about this game is that it highlights how bad some games still are...a truly terrible title from EA and Pandemic.
Added:Thu 29th Jan 2009 03:58, Post No: 47
Is there anything good about the game?