The Hand of Sauron Stretches Far in War of the North

LIGHTNING BOLT

Sauron must be Stretch Armstrong if he can reach that far.

Reminds me of Demon Stone.

Have people forgotten that in the LOTR universe that D&D style wizards don't exist? Seriously, there are A DOZEN in all of Middle Earth EVER!

"*People are still making LOTR games in 2010* :) "

I hope they make this like Dark Alliance.

I know this game is designed with the movies in mind, but honestly, I am sick and tired of brown-looking games.  The lack of color (fire doesn't count) in the character design and background setting in this video already sours me to the game.  I am gonna go play something with more than brown and gray in the palette, now.

"Uh... wizards are not exactly common in Middle Earth so who is this guy supposed to be?  "

Worst subtitle ever? The war is... hmm... well... you know that place... not south... but, um.... oh ya NORTH!

Looks way to cartooney 

something abit off in this trailer. Something weird about the movements.

that looked really bad.  why lotr games always gotta suck :(

The animators for this need more practice. CGI or otherwise, not a damn thing here moved convincingly.

Are there any LOTR trailers, that don't include a troll busting a big door?

*People are still making LOTR games in 2010* 
:)

Reminds me of dragon age, but then again, dragon age is IS lord of the rings.

*waits for gameplay trailer*

Uh... Somehow I expected more..

the action in this is ridiculously boring and wooden, I thought the trailer before this one was much better. Last time I checked orcs don't just stand still for you to kill them.

Generic dwarf and elf, I'm okay with that, but there are like a dozen wizards. And a lot don't care for the war between Sauron and the 'good guys', but since when did the games of Lotr do a good job with the story? Although I understand that they had to put it in to give the gameplay more variety.

Ye on LOTR lore can be made so much games, that even don't fall in to LOTR original story.

" Oh look, a mage, a rogue and a warrior. I'm fucking blown away. "

Uh... wizards are not exactly common in Middle Earth so who is this guy supposed to be? 

From what I've seen it's a bit more cartoony ingame.. The trailer is ok and a lot of people do like seeing CG.

" @jukezypoo said:

" The mere fact that this is made by Snowblind makes me hopeful, but why designers refuse to extend the universe, rather than sticking solely to the trilogy time-line, I'll never get. The old wars with Sauron, or even before, would be far more interesting to me than yet another story during the trilogy timeline.  Still, it's Snowblind. "

I want some company to take a stab at the Fourth Age and the final war against Melkor.  "

" The mere fact that this is made by Snowblind makes me hopeful, but why designers refuse to extend the universe, rather than sticking solely to the trilogy time-line, I'll never get. The old wars with Sauron, or even before, would be far more interesting to me than yet another story during the trilogy timeline.  Still, it's Snowblind. "

Cool animation bro. Hopefully the game is better than this shit.

that troll sounds like a doom monster with the jurrasic park t-rex sound mixed in there... whoa

It's not a LotR games before a Troll bursts through a wooden door/gate innit?
 
Also, yes, yes, yes, I love the LotR music at the end!
I wanna see gameplay tho, need to decide if my regular role as support/ranged is a good option because other wise I will be chopping shit up with a Dwarf. Good times.

" They shoulda KOTOR'd it.  There is zero suspense left in anything to do with trilogy timeline. "

Looks cool, but what does this have to do with lord of the rings? Elves, dwarves and orcs isn't enough of a connection these days.

If they hadn't used the LoTR name (and movie soundtrack, incidentally), I'd never have figured this ugly piece of shit was meant to be related to it.  
 
I love the books and it pisses me off that they insist on releasing crappy stuff related to it, just to take a little of the profit the movies amassed.

They should have had a war in south the weathers much nicer down there i bet.

That looks aggresively mediocre.

A trailer that removes any interest i already dindt have in the game. 
 
 
Impressive. To fail that hard is quite a feat

To nerd it up a bit, freezing someone into a block of ice seems a bit extreme for the magic in LOTR. Then again, the movies did have Gandalf and Saruman flinging each other across the tower with magic.

The mere fact that this is made by Snowblind makes me hopeful, but why designers refuse to extend the universe, rather than sticking solely to the trilogy time-line, I'll never get. The old wars with Sauron, or even before, would be far more interesting to me than yet another story during the trilogy timeline. 
 
Still, it's Snowblind.

And now, a gameplay video!  Sometimes I wonder who at publishers still thinks that releasing a CG trailer is that great of a marketing tool - I mean, we don't play the trailers. 

" Oh look, a mage, a rogue and a warrior. I'm fucking blown away. "

Trolls. Why'd it have to be trolls?

Cool trailer, but no gameplay = no interest.

We'll see, but I want to watch the movies now..

wow that was bad, just a bad cinematic.