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This is a Game that will have the same Gameplay as Oblivion where you also choose your Character from Man, Dwarf, Hobbits to Elf.
You will go from Point A to Point Z from the Map of the LOTR where you can go Anywhere you like.
You will meet Saruman and Ghandalf, but we play the Game waaaay before Bilbo finds the Ring.
Man im excited, i cant wait for it to come.
2007 is the release date.
I'm over the moon about it too, I can hardly wait!
I read that it's going to mix it with the 'The Third Age' style combat as well as some new stuff, which was brilliant - I loved it :D
It's going to be wayyy back in the cool days, when Isengard was lush and beautiful- I really want to explore Middle Earth! Jump off Orthanc, visit the elves in Rivendell, see Weathertop at dusk, stay in Bree, explore hobbiton, hopefully even into Mordor if Sauron had built his fortress back then!
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hopefully even into Mordor if Sauron had built his fortress back then!
I never read the Books, but i only watched the Movies.
It says in the Movie that Sauron has a Fortess, after 2 and a half thousand years later, the Ring was lost and forgotton, so yea there will be a Fortress and i think the Game will sort of end where Bilbo first discover the Ring.
When i played Oblivion, i kept thinking about the LOTR Music in my head and kept thinking im playing a LOTR Game :D
Apparently it's set 80 yeas before the LotR storyline, so Barad-Dur will be built :D
I know what you mean about LotR music- I play the soundtracks sometimes as I play the game and it's amazing !
I hope that's the type of freedom they allow in the game, not like The 3rd Age. As much as I love that game the pathways are too 'linear' and set out for you - I'd like to explore Everywhere :D
Somewhere in Rohan? (http://www.ps3land.com/previews/LOTR_WhiteCouncil/Image2.jpg)
Landscape (http://www.ps3land.com/previews/LOTR_WhiteCouncil/Image3.jpg)
A thin Troll in a cave? (http://www.ps3land.com/previews/LOTR_WhiteCouncil/Image4.jpg)
Trolls (http://www.ps3land.com/previews/LOTR_WhiteCouncil/Image5.jpg)
:D
Cool concept art!
And some more from IGN! (http://uk.media.xbox360.ign.com/media/824/824724/imgs_1.html)
I think that first IGN picture is actually Barad-Dur being re-built :yik: Overseen by a Nazgul :jmp:
xMiSsCrOfTx
16-08-06, 16:07
This game sounds awesome! And Rivendell, that wizard smiley is just adorable. :D :p
interstellardave
16-08-06, 16:08
This game is on my "must buy" list, that's for sure!
A new Computer is on my "Must Buy List". :( Oh Joseph, regarding my New PC i want to buy, what is new that i must add to the list. :p
UNDERTAKER
16-08-06, 22:01
Can't wait for this! Lord of the Rings universe with full 'oblivion' levels of freedom! Dream come true.
Apparently, this game will show you Saruman before he turned to darkness. Should be very interesting.
Apparently, this game will show you Saruman before he turned to darkness. Should be very interesting.
:jmp: Yep! I can't wait for that! Hopefully you can choose to do missions for him and be some sort of 'apprentice' to him..
This is what I'd love to do.. somehow steal one of the Nine Ringwraith's Rings, slowly turn into a wraith and fly a Nazgul from Mordor all over Middle Earth :D
Can't wait for this! Lord of the Rings universe with full 'oblivion' levels of freedom! Dream come true.
Apparently, this game will show you Saruman before he turned to darkness. Should be very interesting.
Nice, i read that somewhere :D
I think i read somewhere that this will be an Internet Game, i could be way off base here, but i sure hope its not an Internet Game, then i shall be very Mad and take them to Undertaker for a one on one Wresling Match. :D
No noo , White Council isn't the online game - "Shadows of Angmar" is the online game -
The Lord of the Rings - Shadows of Angmar mmporpg (http://lotro.turbine.com/)
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Yea, now im definitly getting the White Council.
Here is an Interview of the man who is making the Game.
The Lord Of The Rings: The White Council
18-Jul-2006 EA's Steve Gray gives us the lowdown on this stunning-looking RPG
Last week EA, during a press event held in the US, announced new Lord of the Rings RPG The White Council. We were present at the jamboree and managed to pin down the game's exec producer Steve Gray and question him about the title. During a lengthy chat that found him spilling plenty of details, it emerged that - although EA's official announcement on the RPG stated that it's in development for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC - a PC version of The White Council remains in question. Still, it's looking likely with Gray noting that a PC version of The White Council is "something you would imagine we would do".
Read on to discover what else the exec producer had to say about the game he compares to the mighty Oblivion...
Interview conducted by Martin Korda.
What is The White Council?
Steve Gray: The White Council is a group of wizards and elves formed from Elrond, Galadriel, Gandalf, Círdan, Saruman and Radagast. They're the guiders of Middle-earth and are there to make sure that evil doesn't triumph.
What other RPGs would you compare the game to?
Steve Gray: If I had to compare it to something it'd be Oblivion. We have a combination of an open world where you can go off and explore anything and engage in a lot of activities, but we also have a very strong central story arc that has a series of quests associated with it, which you can choose to follow. We also have professions that have their own quests associated with them, which have their own quests that branch off the central story. We're really hoping that the world itself is so interesting that people will use the story as a springboard to go off and create their own adventures.
How much freedom have you been given with the game's plot?
Steve Gray: In terms of creating the actual story for the game, we've had a lot of freedom. We have the rights to create derivative fiction from both the books and the films and that's given us a lot of freedom to create new characters and stories. However, it always has to make sense within the confines of Tolkien's world. We're all huge Tolkien fans, so our danger meters go off very quickly if we think we've come up with something that doesn't make sense within Tolkien's fiction.
Can you give us any details about the plot?
Steve Gray: I'd rather not give away too much, but what I can tell you is that the basic idea is that you want to become a sufficiently powerful character to become an agent of the White Council. There's evil in the world that needs to be destroyed and they send you off to do it.
What races and professions will you be able to play as?
Steve Gray: The four good races, human, hobbit, elves and dwarves. Professions won't be race specific. However, each profession relative to each race will be different. There'll be a melee fighter profession, a wizard profession and a hunter profession. There are some archetypes within the RPG genre that you'd expect to see and we've added a whole lot more to the list, too.
There was a dragon in the trailer you showed us. Is this Smaug from The Hobbit?
Steve Gray: We're specifically not basing anything on The Hobbit. The dragon you saw wasn't Smaug. There were plenty of other dragons in Tolkien's fiction.
What will make this game stand out from other RPGs?
Steve Gray: I think The White Council will have a lot of things that will stand out from the crowd. One of them is that all of our NPCs are Sims. They're not just current-gen Sims that you've seen in the past Sims games, they're built from the technology of the next generation of Sims games. I don't think there's anyone out there that can compete with what Maxis has developed over many, many years.
NPCs' feelings will be affected by your behaviour. The game's physical environment isn't enormously persistent, but the characters' environment and the knowledge that the NPCs have about your behaviour and how they interact with you is very persistent and very revolutionary. We really want you to feel like you're developing relationships with NPCs by having to manage them as you progress through the game. I think that's one area where we're really going to excel. Also, our character and inventory customisation system is going to be far beyond anything we've seen so far.
How much say will the player have over their alignment given the rigid storyline structure?
Steve Gray: You cannot switch sides and become evil. I think that's fairly consistent with the fiction. You have a lot of freedom about what you do, and you can do things that are questionable, but you can't outright go out and decide to align yourself with the forces of evil.
How does the player character fit into The White Council?
Steve Gray: The White Council is a group of the most powerful characters in Middle-earth. Your goal is to become an officially recognised character and become an agent of the White Council so that they ask you to do things for them. Our character customisation will have things in there that'll help you understand who you are. We want to avoid the usual RPG problem of you being dropped into the gaming world like some kind of amnesiac character with no history, so we've got some things we're working on to try and address that.
Fundamentally, you'll start off as a nobody and at one point you'll become important enough for the White Council to take notice of you and ask you to do things for them. Ultimately you'll go out and directly help them defeat evil.
Will there be any epic battles?
Steve Gray: There won't be any big battle scenes. This game is about individual heroism. In the time period that it's set in (80 years before The Lord Of The Rings trilogy), there weren't any really big battles.
Can you give us any details about the evil that we'll be fighting against?
Steve Gray: Just from the books, we know that in that time period there was an evil force in the south of Mirkwood in a castle named Dol Guldur called The Necromancer. He was the main bad guy in that time period so you'd think that our story would have to deal with that fact.
Will we see any characters that weren't in the films?
Steve Gray: There'll be all sorts of characters, including characters not seen in the films.
How will/does the combat system work?
Steve Gray: Fundementally, what we wanted to do was to take the best of The Two Towers, The Return Of The King and mix it with the tactics from The Third Age. We wanted to make the front-end combat like the first two games where you have to use your button skills and make the back half a tactical RPG system that's based on what armour you have on and what skills you've developed. We've merged them together so that action/adventure fans will be happy to play the game. However, later in the game you'll really need to know how the tactical RPG system works and make sure you understand how and when to use healing, melee and ranged combat.
What platforms will the game ship on?
Steve Gray: The lead platforms are PS3 and Xbox 360. We're also thinking about doing a PC version. The PC version isn't officially confirmed but it's something you would imagine we would do. If you look back at a lot of the other Lord of the Rings games, we haven't 100% always done a PC version, but we tend to.
When can we expect to see the finished game?
Steve Gray: The game has been in production for about a year and a half. We hope to release it in fall of 2007.
It sounds so brilliant!
And I've always wanted to delve more into the Dol Guldur darkness!! It's where Sauron resides in Mirkwood before the White Coucil drive him out and he flee's back into Mordor :D
I think the whole history of that is explained in the first book !
I'm really looking forward to play this one!:jmp:
One,if not the best things of LOTR is the landscape, the environment and also the variety of species! I can't wait to explore them, drooling at the elven, get all the Rings for myself,etc :D!
And perhaps we could have a glimpse (just a tiny one) at the Valar,when Sauron wasn't more than a lieutenent!
I'm happy it won't be an online game, but a local RPG one. I lack the patience to socialize with other players,lol!
I'm really looking forward to play this one!:jmp:
One,if not the best things of LOTR is the landscape, the environment and also the variety of species! I can't wait to explore them, drooling at the elven, get all the Rings for myself,etc :D!
Too right!
:eek: I wonder .. if it's 80 years before TlotR, will we be able to go into the Misty Mountains, seek out Gollums cave and nick the ring off him? :pi:
Your mission: become the Lady/Lord of the Rings.:D
That's a good question,Rivendell,though I don't believe we could actually change the course of the plot,but who knows...I'm imagining ruling the entire Middle-Earth, having lots of blond elven as my servants...ah the beauty of RPG.
I think we're not really interfering,but only play in the LOTR context. We cannot avoid Saruman from becoming evil,but perhaps we might choose to be against/ with him.
Ooh work alongside Wormtongue in Saruman's service :D
Or even just a window cleaner in Orthanc! How I'd love that job :cln:
Now who has a LOTR Middle Earth big Map to see every Location, i have an Oblivion one and its big.
I do daventy :D Quite a few now I think about it !
Are we start to looking like fanatics :D?
Because I've this book on the hidden simbology of LOTR,including a map and a detailed chronology !
I would like to see the Map please
jamieoliver22
17-08-06, 13:32
Yeah, I noticed this game a while ago and It really does seem pretty cool.. I'll probally end up getting it! :D
"Shadows of Angmar" is the online game
oooh.. Didn't know about this game.. It looks pretty impressive also! :D
Jamie.
That looks ausome! Cant wait to see some more info
Amazing
Thanks Daventry, can't wait :jmp:
illuminati30
02-10-06, 13:38
Looks good!
I know there is already a hobbit video game, but it was pretty poor. Will be interesting to see what games surface when that movie is made!
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