Trailers: Lord of the Rings: The War in the North - Human Combat Trailer

[Team Hollywood]

Lord of the Rings: The War in the North - Human Combat Trailer

If you've ever wanted to know what it would be like to be a human in Middle Earth.

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[Kajt]

Lord of the Rings Online: The War in the North

I somehow doubt this is LotRO.

 

[Colonel Joson]

Ooh I'm impressed! Also there appears to be a slight error with this topics title XD. This most certainly isn't LOTRO.

 

[ViciousTide]

Will be an epic fail, like all of the LOTR games for console..

 

[baochan]

So the entire game's played in slow-motion, then?

 

[Agent Larkin]

Well I'd being lying if I said I wasn't interested.

Definitely not a day one buy but maybe a few weeks down the road. After all IMO after November 15th there isn't anything else great coming out.

 

[GaltarDude1138]

Will be an epic fail, like all of the LOTR games for console..

I remember playing the movie tie-in games on the Gamecube...

By no means were they shit, and this looks like an expanded version of those games.

 

[J. Reed]

Never buying a Lord of the Rings game on day one ever again.

I blindly pre-ordered Conquest because LotR + Battlefront = YES PLEASE.

I traded it in two days later. Now, anything with Middle Earth as its setting has me very wary.

 

[The Pinray]

When oh when oh when are they going to make the open-word LoTR RPG that fans have been dying for! :'( I'd love to live in Middle Earth. These iffy action games just aren't cutting it!

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

Im really excited for this game. I love me some LOTR.

 

[notimeforlulz]

Introducing the slow motion MMO! And you thought grinding took forever before!

 

[omicron1]

When oh when oh when are they going to make the open-word LoTR RPG that fans have been dying for! :'( I'd love to live in Middle Earth. These iffy action games just aren't cutting it!

Well... there was this one game... huge world, lots of quests and NPCs... I think it was called Middle-Earth Online or somesuch. You should look it up.


More seriously, yeah, I would go for an LOTR RPG via Bethesda Softworks. But I doubt it'll happen. Bethsoft don't have the license, for one thing.

 

[The Pinray]

When oh when oh when are they going to make the open-word LoTR RPG that fans have been dying for! :'( I'd love to live in Middle Earth. These iffy action games just aren't cutting it!

Well... there was this one game... huge world, lots of quests and NPCs... I think it was called Middle-Earth Online or somesuch. You should look it up.


More seriously, yeah, I would go for an LOTR RPG via Bethesda Softworks. But I doubt it'll happen. Bethsoft don't have the license, for one thing.

I'm talking about one that's not garbage, kiddo. LoTRO is terri-bad.

 

[spacewalker]

so, how are they going to use slow motion in an online game? If they cant compensate for it in some way the lag is going to be horrible.

 

[omicron1]

When oh when oh when are they going to make the open-word LoTR RPG that fans have been dying for! :'( I'd love to live in Middle Earth. These iffy action games just aren't cutting it!

Well... there was this one game... huge world, lots of quests and NPCs... I think it was called Middle-Earth Online or somesuch. You should look it up.


More seriously, yeah, I would go for an LOTR RPG via Bethesda Softworks. But I doubt it'll happen. Bethsoft don't have the license, for one thing.

I'm talking about one that's not garbage, kiddo. LoTRO is terri-bad.

If LotRO (metacritic average across the base game and two expansions being 84.5) is "terri-bad," I shudder to think how few games you consider "average" or better.

 

[The Pinray]

When oh when oh when are they going to make the open-word LoTR RPG that fans have been dying for! :'( I'd love to live in Middle Earth. These iffy action games just aren't cutting it!

Well... there was this one game... huge world, lots of quests and NPCs... I think it was called Middle-Earth Online or somesuch. You should look it up.


More seriously, yeah, I would go for an LOTR RPG via Bethesda Softworks. But I doubt it'll happen. Bethsoft don't have the license, for one thing.

I'm talking about one that's not garbage, kiddo. LoTRO is terri-bad.

If LotRO (metacritic average across the base game and two expansions being 84.5) is "terri-bad," I shudder to think how few games you consider "average" or better.

MMOs bore me. If you base your opinions on metacritic I shudder to think how you live your life.

Forgive me for having a differing opinion. It'll never happen again, sir. I promise.

 

[Daemonate]

Will be an epic fail, like all of the LOTR games for console..

Hey, the Fellowship of the Ring game on PS2 (pre-movie license, more power to it) was fantastic.
Obviously a flop since they never released part 2 and 3, but it stands to show you can do a tasteful, faithful video game version of the material that is also fun.
Not being a movie tie-in, it had an original aesthetic, extreme devotion to the source material (including Bombadil as an NPC, complete with corny songs), all with fun gameplay and a truly inspired interpretation of some of the locations from the first of the trilogy.

This game looks ok too, but I'm a little bit worried that it will ALL be gritty Dragon Age artistic direction. Middle Earth is also about beauty and nature, not just dank dungeons.