EA To Redesign Lord of the Rings RTS For Xbox 360

A-n-d-y · 15 Jan 2006 at 10:09

The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II is coming to the 360.

For me this is great news as i love RTS games

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Nismo · 15 Jan 2006 at 10:27

Bah, knowing EA they will just give the characters a 'sweat' effect and add extra light bloom

A-n-d-y · 15 Jan 2006 at 10:29

Yeah id rather EA didint make these games but hey it will be the 1st RTS on the 360.

Baine · 15 Jan 2006 at 10:50

Although made by EA i was under the impression that the team that make these games are in fact the old westwood crew (C&C series) who were just brought by EA

EA Publish it
Westwood (under EA name) Make it

A-n-d-y · 15 Jan 2006 at 10:53

Baine said:
Although made by EA i was under the impression that the team that make these games are in fact the old westwood crew (C&C series) who were just brought by EA

EA Publish it
Westwood (under EA name) Make it

Yeah but its still EA

The Xbox 360 version, designed in-house at EA Los Angeles, features what is being touted as a unique and intuitive control scheme by the studio's Vice President of Creative Development, Westwood co-founder Louis Castle

~J~ · 15 Jan 2006 at 17:51

Just been reading about this, looks pretty interesting. If it's anything like the scenes in Kameo with those thousands of trolls, it should be a pretty damn good game.

Imagine if it's online multiplayer too!!! Just think of building up an army of over 1,000 trolls and letting them loose on your opponent!!

lordrobs · 16 Jan 2006 at 11:33

Bah, RTS. I want to see a remake of LOTR:ROTK for some proper 2 player co-op hack-em-up action

actually imagine it four player co-op over live... that would be emense!

A-n-d-y · 16 Jan 2006 at 11:36

Never played that game tbh, the only LOTR game iv played is the 1st part of battle for middle earth which i had for the pc.

lordrobs · 16 Jan 2006 at 11:39

I was really impressed with it. My mate said it was like a modern day Golden Axe in the way it played

A-n-d-y · 16 Jan 2006 at 11:41

lordrobs said:
I was really impressed with it. My mate said it was like a modern day Golden Axe in the way it played

Cool now i loved golden axe i may have to look out for a copy of this then

Tunney · 16 Jan 2006 at 12:27

The only console-based RTS that ever impressed me was Dune 2 on the Megadrive. It was simple enough that the lack of a mouse wasn't too much of a problem. Every console-based RTS since has left me frustrated with how much effort it is to do even the simplest of tasks.

Why would anyone with a PC want to play a RTS game on a console? Especially one from EA.

Bonjour · 16 Jan 2006 at 13:20

Megalomania on the Megadrive was also pretty darn good.

Kainz · 16 Jan 2006 at 17:23

Now, RTS's are my favourite genre on the pc but how the hell do we play an rts without a ratter? I hope it has rat support that we've not heard about yet, and not some lame EA 'super control with a gamepad system' that turns out to be poor.

PinkPig · 16 Jan 2006 at 17:43

No reason why the game shouldn't support a standard USB mouse, the FFXI beta manages it, I believe.

lightbulb · 16 Jan 2006 at 18:45

Roll on LOTR 2006! lol

A-n-d-y · 16 Jan 2006 at 23:26

Just found 2 shots of the 360 version..

Its looking good

Creature · 16 Jan 2006 at 23:31

If they really are from the 360 version, then hot damn does it look good

A-n-d-y · 16 Jan 2006 at 23:34

Creature said:
If they really are from the 360 version, then hot damn does it look good

They are indeed taken from the 360 version.

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Creature · 17 Jan 2006 at 00:09

Mmmmm, tasty.