EA has the rights to the movies, Vivendi Universal (now publishing under the name Black Label Games) got the book rights. This was the game that you read about - or rather, it's the Game Boy Advance version of it - in all the brouhaha following the licensing of The Lord of the Rings. Follows the original text of Tolkien's novel.Go on a quest with the complete Fellowship in your party.how will that be fun? Vivendi Universal sought out to prove me wrong - or at least answer my questions - with this game.
And right away, we had kids writing in saying, "Oh my god, this would make SUCH a great RPG!" My questions back always was, "How?" How would a game with a story that we already know (two times over for most fans, considering how the movie brought Tolkien's novel to life in such a definitive way,) that certainly will not have the freedom from plot to let you explore Middle Earth as you'd want to in an RPG, that surely would not carry the depth of text of the novels, and that will (or may - my apologies to all the genuine RPG enthusiasts in the world) bore you to tears with a bunch of menus instead of delivering real excitement. So when The Lord of the Rings began to come back as a hot property, I just shook my head knowing where the games would be going.
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