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I was perusing Gamers.com this morning and saw that they've posted a couple previews of the next Lord of the Rings game, Return of the King. There's a preview of the console version, as well as a look at the PC version. The producer of the games comments that: "The two key areas we wanted to make sure we nailed this time around were the addition of co-op and better interaction with the levels... If last year's game was Golden Axe meets Lord of the Rings, then this year's game is Gauntlet meets Lord of the Rings."
Co-Branding? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Co-Branding? (Score:4, Interesting)
but, then again, you don't want too much synergy or you end up with the "new tomb raider game brought our movie down" [slashdot.org] logic.
Re:Co-Branding? (Score:1)
Re:Co-Branding? (Score:3, Insightful)
Universal Studios owns the rights to make movies of the LotR works. (I think its Universal, but the actual company is irrelevant).
The software publisher that owns the rights to distriubute video games (they pay a studio to design/code it for them) based on the LotR series is not Universal Studios, nor does it have any connection with Universal.
What you're talking about won't happen unless some of the media/movie companies start to buy out video game publishers, or
Re:Co-Branding? (Score:1)
Re:Co-Branding? (Score:3, Interesting)
And why couldn't they do this exactly? This kind of stuff happens all the time. They both want to sell their product, and
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Re:Co-Branding? (Score:3, Funny)
E.T. 20th anniversarry edition, with a free copy of E.T. The Suck-ass-Atari-Game!
Sells several million copies coz people just want the DVD.
Atari: "see, even 20 years later we still gots the market penetration, yo!
Re:Co-Branding? (Score:2)
No, they would offer the bundle, and then they'd offer the standalones, because not everybody would pay the inflated price for the bundle.
Re:Co-Branding? (Score:3, Interesting)
They're probably less likely to do this with big titles though, since they figure those will sell on their own even without the incentive. There will certainly be pleanty of cross-over advertising though
heh.. (Score:2)
Otherwise, it looks not that bad, though I don't know if I would pay 50$ for it..
How about creating something unique? (Score:3, Interesting)
If I want Golden Axe, I play Golden Axe. If I want Gauntlet, I play Gauntlet. In neither case I feel like I need to spend an additional $50 only to play a game I already have, with the LotR logo on the box. What happened to originality? How about at least pretending that the games are unique?
Co-op (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Co-op (Score:2)
-lw
Re:Co-op (Score:2)
console version (Score:4, Funny)
Re: console version (Score:1)
Oh no, not Gauntlet! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh no, not Gauntlet! (Score:1)
One lembas cake can keep that guy running for *ages*!
lazy man's way to win (Score:1)
Nifty (Score:2, Interesting)