Lego Lord of the Rings Officially Announced

<p>The fine folks over at Warner Brothers and Traveller’s Tales have officially announced <em>Lego Lord of the Rings<&sol;em>&period; The game will be released for the PlayStation 3&comma; PlayStation Vita&comma; Xbox 360 and the Nintendo consoles sometime in the future&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Just like Lego games of the past&comma; players will be traversing through levels while controlling heroes from the books&sol;movies&period; The levels are re-playable with any character from the game as soon as they are completed at least once&period; The game also features two-player drop-in&sol;drop-out co-op play&period; Unlike some games from the past&comma; this one will feature full voice acting from the movies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>TT Games chief Jonathan Smith said that <em>Lego Lord of the Rings<&sol;em> is more of an adventure game with grand quests&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;In contrast to our other games&comma; covering those three movies is an epic journey&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period; &&num;8220&semi;It really is a sense of an adventure rather than a series of stories&period; You build up your characters as you venture through the world of Middle-Earth&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Our hub will be the world of Middle-Earth&period; As you see that unfold&comma; as you journey through it toward your ultimate destination on this epic quest&comma; that gives it a sense that is completely different to the open world of Gotham of <em>Lego Batman 2<&sol;em>&period; You&&num;8217&semi;re really driving forward on a quest&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Practically&comma; in terms of the levels there&&num;8217&semi;s a mix between fighting and puzzling as you&&num;8217&semi;d expect&period; We have some very big battles&period; We have some cool enemies&period; And then&comma; for puzzling&comma; if you&&num;8217&semi;re a connoisseur of the series perhaps you&&num;8217&semi;ll remember something more like <em>Indiana Jones<&sol;em> where we&&num;8217&semi;re picking up and dropping items and there&&num;8217&semi;s some inventory-based play as well and customization of characters as they go through the adventure&period;&&num;8221&semi; Are we talking stat-based RPG&quest; &&num;8220&semi;No stats&period;&period; There will be quests on the hub&comma; side-quests&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Since the source material is a little more on the serious side&comma; TT Games ran the risk of being to faithful to the movie and leaving out what makes LEGO games so fun&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;As we&&num;8217&semi;ve done in the past where we&&num;8217&semi;ve got wonderful movies to draw on&comma; we will suck all the drama that we can out of them&comma; so that means making sure that all the work that went into making those movies brilliant we replicate with the right sound&comma; with the right shots&comma; with the right editing&comma; and the right pace&comma; but then we condense and compress and to some extent caricature&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><iframe src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;embed&sol;MxuGSFYm1ls" frameborder&equals;"0" width&equals;"560" height&equals;"315"><&sol;iframe><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;kotaku&period;com&sol;5914863&sol;watch-the-lego-balrog-fight-the-lego-fellowship-in-lego-lord-of-the-rings">Kotaku<&sol;a>&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;