Crispin Boyer from Electronic Gaming Monthly writes: I wanted to give you a heads up on our December cover story. We have the exclusive first review of EA’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King game, which is due for PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, and Game Boy Advance on Nov. 4. [More] [Gaming Havens]
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Crispin Boyer from Electronic Gaming Monthly writes: I wanted to give you a heads up on our December cover story (in case you wanted to help us out with a little news story about it on the site). We have the exclusive first review of EA’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King game, which is due for PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, and Game Boy Advance on Nov. 4. Like last year’s prequel, this slickly produced game is an action-y romp that pits your favorite Middle-eartlings against massive hordes of orcs, trolls, and Southron warriors. In addition to Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli, you can now control Gandalf, Sam, and Frodo, as well as three secret characters. EA worked closely with Peter Jackson and the movie’s special-effects guys (they even kept a team at the film’s New Zealand set) to capture the look and feel of the film. And, of course, they recorded lots of exclusive new dialog from the movie’s principal actors.
Anyway, our issue comes in five different covers (attached). We’re also running a “Win a trip to Middle-earth!” contest. Readers just need to read the cover story and answer an easy online quiz to enter to win a trip for two to New Zealand (we have a lot of game-related second-place prizes, too). Oh, and our cover story also features a photo by TheOneRing.net’s own MrCere 🙂
Tickets are now on sale for nearly all U.S. Trilogy Tuesday venues. Ringer Spies across the states have been updating us with status reports, and we have all the data collected on our Trilogy Tuesday Details page! Check it out throughout the day as it is updated with information. [MORE]
Several theaters have already sold out. Earlier problems with Fandango reporting “sell outs” have been seemingly resolved. Stay tuned!
The Filmfestival of Ghent, Belgium has just announced that they will host a live concert: Lord of the Rings, symphony in Six movements to be orchestrated by Howard Shore himself! The event will take place on April 16th 2004 and more information can be found at Dutch language community site TheFellowship.nl or at FilmFestival.be!
The established Games Workshop sculpturers Alan and Michael Perry, who were invited by Peter Jackson to show him how to design miniatures, will appear at Ring*Con 2003. They sculpted many miniatures for the Games Workshop’s Lord of the Rings project. Look for more info on this already interesting event on www.RingCon.de!
Robert’s kindly sent us these photos showing how the Embassy Theatre in Wellington is shaping up as it undergoes renovation to prepare it for the world premiere of ROTK. [More]