New "Aragorn's Quest" game

[Emmie]

As it steps up publishing efforts, Warner Bros. has revealed its first post-EA Lord of the Rings game, the family-friendly LOTR: Aragorn's Quest, which will be making an appearance at E3 next month.

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According to the information, the title will have "accessible gameplay set in a friendly, colorful rendition of Middle-Earth. Players assume the role of Strider and embark on his greatest quests from The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The game offers authentic, action-oriented sword fighting, lancing and archery that all ages can play together."
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=23711

Hmm... I'm not too interested in this myself, but I'm curious what their "friendly, colorful" version of Middle Earth is going to look like.

[jimmyboy]

I'm not sure what it means to say "family-friendly", since it still has action violence. Maybe it just means there's no pipe-smoking and brew-drinking, as in LOTR Online.

I suppose as long as it's not japanimed then it's OK, because I love most anything Middle-earth, but I can't say yay or nay until I see it.

[Emmie]

New trailer for it here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2009/dec/14/lord-of-the-rings-aragorns-quest-trailer

I'm surprised by how many of the in-game scenes seem to be direct copies of things from the movie.

[Lanyare]

Looking very colourful indeed, judging from a couple of screens I got to see when I googled it.

It looks a lot like an animated movie, actually, without the realism most games seem to aim for these days. I guess that's where the family friendliness comes from.

Emmie, I don't know if it really is that surprising that a lot of the stuff is a copy from the movies. After all, New Line's a licensee, apparently, of Warner Brothers. And the game's from WB.

[Lanyare]

I've been checking out trailers for this game again, since I noticed on Lord of the Rings.net that it's actually being developed for the Wii. Not sure how I missed that before, but...

I think I might actually buy this game. I've been enjoying Zelda on my Wii in any case, so this could be lots of fun as well. :D

[Emmie]

Yeah, if I had a supported system I might try it too, I suppose. :) I was looking around the website, which I hadn't seen before: http://www.aragornsquest.com/

[Lanyare]

Aye, that's where I have ended up as well. Unfortunately I could not find any information concerning release date in Europe, but then, I still need to finish Zelda anyways, so I can wait.

[Jolly Cotton]

It looks a good game,
although I do blame,
my lack of money with disdain.
But all the same,
it looks a good game!

(A friend has this on Wii- it's rather enjoyable!)