The long-awaited long-in-the-making LOTR Online (full name: Midway’s Lord of the Rings Online: The Shadows of Angmar) is finally out –and the big question: can it beat out World of Warcraft? It’s easy to feel over LOTR and a bit apprehensive about an online game that could’ve been so easily ruined. Expectations have been high –and the first impressions are that this does have the wow! factor. And if you have ever played WoW, you’ll feel at home with only a small learning curve required. It’s a very good looking MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) with the lighting, environment and detail all passing the test. In fact, stunning is the word. Water –always a good one to check – is awesome with the ripples looking very authentic and shadows and lighting along with a bunch of post-processing effects are astonishing. It feels like you really are in Middle Earth even though the plot varies a great deal. [More]
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Craig writes: Angus McBride has passed away. Mr McBride created a number of pieces of artwork based on Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings for Iron Crown Enterprises Middle Earth Role Playing (MERP) game and Middle Earth Collectable Card Game (MECCG). [More]
Vanessa “Saffron” Price, Online Community Representative for The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, writes: Middle-earth is a busy place for an adventurer! Take a look at this overview about the many leisure activities available to the battle-weary fighter. [More]
In my opinion Halo is to video games what American Idol is to television, and yet both 20th Century Fox and Universal decided a Halo movie (with newbie director Neill Blomkamp directing) just wasn’t going to happen. But that was then, and this is now — with Halo 3 getting set to demolish the gaming world, Peter Jackson told OnFilm magazine that he expects the project to lift itself out of development hell once Fox and Universal catch a glimpse of the Halo hype first hand. As far as Blomkamp goes; Jackson notes: “We wouldn’t want to do it with anyone else. It’s Neill’s call.” But that’s not all the man has on his plate; apart from directing The Lovely Bones, Jackson is producing a remake of 1954’s The Dam Busters; a project he’s kept quiet about for quite some time. [More]
Vanessa “Saffron” Price, Online Community Representative for The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar writes: We’re pleased to provide you with some stunning screenshots from our upcoming content update: The Shores of Evendim! Enjoy! [More]
May 23, 2007 – Chance Thomas seems to have a knack for getting himself attached to rather epic videogames, specifically in the arena of composing vast, interactive, and equally epic scores for such games. Thomas’ credits to date include X-Men: The Official Game, Left Behind: Eternal Forces, Peter Jackson’s King Kong, among others. His latest project, however, brings him back to a realm he is quite familiar with: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth. [More]