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This game would be perfect for a Lord of the Rings: Conquest Contest!

This sounds completely different.. I been looking forward to a FPS like this since the tease of Project Offset.

MOMM was a huge disappointment.

I am still waiting a proper fantasy/medieval on Battlefield franchise scale.

Savage still seems short.

As a lord of the rings geek, I'm thrilled.
As a gamer... I'm not sure how well this'll work out.

If Sauron will get the ring, and use it against Galadriel, better use some absolutelly brillant art direction, or some rabid fans will eat you alive!. These images look to dark and gray, and generic fantasy #4443. Neeeds a widen color palette.

Dibs on the Nirnaeth Arnoediad

Sounds like Star Wars: Battlefront with a LotR skin on it and that's not necessarily a bad thing.

I'm definitely intrigued! Hopefully the mechanics don't come off as being sloppy though.

Sounds pretty interesting. Multiplayer melee FPS are not very common (there's Savage, there's a couple mods for HL and Quake and whatnot... and that's it). If it works right... will buy :)

Very intriguing. I'll wait for more than a concept and a screen though.

I'm not sure how this game would draw anyone not familiar with LOTR, but being a fan, I am mucho excited.

i liked LOTR: the return of the king, for PC.

that was the last game i played for PC and was very fun.

so hopefully this delivers.

I liked the battlefield games so... we'll have to see.

This could be awesome. Could be.

My jaw. It's on the floor.

I've always wanted a game like this (Melee based real-time combat) on a massive scale.

And seeing the developers are Pandemic (!!!), who have made Mercenaries, FSW, SW:BF, and DAH...these guys know a thing or two about scale!

I really, really, hope this delivers. And seeing how it's Pandemic, I'd be more surprised if it doesn't!

One of my absolute favorite games of the last console generation was the Two Towers movie tie-in game. It was extremely well done, and showed that the LotR universe transfers very well into the gaming world.

This looks to be very *very* good, given Pandemics excellent pedigree and EAs surprisingly good handle of the LotR license. Looking forward to seeing some actual gameplay.

I loved the Star Wars Battlefront series! I also love LOTR!! (books and movies) So this is hopefully going to be great! This jumped into my top 5 anticipated games

I hope they don't feel compelled to stick needlessly close to the graphic design of the movies, I think it worked really well for the films but a slightly more stylized vision might work better in a video game - take a look at the lackluster EA efforts on the LOTR franchise to see what I mean.

I wonder how big a role magic will play in the game.. I'm no purist but there's likely going to be a lot of extrapolation considering there's only about two active spells cast in the entire 3,000 pages of the books.

@Wookiee1: srsly. I hope they pull content from the Silmarillion and other uncompleted works, the actual potential for battle in the War of the Ring is rather limited. It would be sweet to have the battles of the men of Arnor fighting against the foes of Fornost and such.

So I'll finally be getting a full year subscription to live then?

Holy shit son...you mean I get to play an Uruk-hai and genocide the halflings? OMG! Best news day evar, confirmed.

So, we are getting what seems to be a LOTR version of Savage, a game that's been out for how long now?

The screens make it look like a Mount&Blade modification. I do hope it plays as good as that (mounted combat ftw) but on the other hand I don't want something that will undermine Mount&Blade itself as that game also deserves the public's attention and the upcoming retail version has to sell well. Sure they have a completely different style (but who knows, maybe multiplayer is one of the things they want for Mount&Blade 2 or whatever) but I'm sure that if Mount&Blade gets released after this and the combat is actually similar, the ignorant mainstream press will just call it a low budget Conquest rip off or something. And that's just not right.

Conceptually, I'm intrigued. Those screenshots? Meh.

Wait, is it Battlefield or Battlefront? It seems like it changes every other time someone says the title.