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The game is based on the fictional world of Middle-earth created by J. R. R. Tolkien and takes place during its Fourth Age after the events of The Lord of the Rings novel. It follows a company of dwarves as they try to retake their homeland Moria and restore the long-lost ancient kingdom of Khazad-dûm.
This is a list of Middle-earth video games.It includes both video games based directly on J. R. R. Tolkien's books about Middle-earth, and those derived from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films by New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. which in turn were based on Tolkien's novels of the same name.
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II is a 2006 real-time strategy video game developed and published by Electronic Arts.The second part of the Middle-earth strategy game series, it is based on the fantasy novels The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien and its live-action film series adaptation.
The 2010s saw the release of three darker and more violent Middle-earth video games that were rated Mature by the ESRB. The first of such games was The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, an action role-playing game that takes place in Northern Middle-earth. It was developed by Snowblind Studios and released on 1 November 2011.
In 2019 a race of "Stout-Axe Dwarves" was added with the Minas Morgul expansion, representing a dwarven clan from the far east of Middle-Earth with an appearance distinct from that of Longbeard dwarves and allowing players to choose the gender of those dwarven characters, [11] unlike the original Dwarven race, which only allows male characters.
It also had the best Middle-earth saga opening in the UK ($15.2 million), [73] and Mexico ($6.3 million). [73] In Brazil, the film scored the second-biggest Warner Bros. opening of all time with $6.8 million (behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 ). [ 73 ]
I (1994 video game) J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II: The Two Towers; The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest; The Lord of the Rings: Gollum; The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria; The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game) The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (Game Boy Advance video game)
The game boils down each of the trilogy's great battles to a series of compact, generic missions that rarely resemble anything seen in Middle Earth." [35] GameDaily gave the game seven out of ten, saying, "The graphics look decent (despite some broken animations), and the game allows players to smash both Orcs and Hobbits. That said, the ...