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The Lord of the Rings: Conquest (2009)

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The Lord of the Rings Conquest is the upcoming video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by Electronic Arts. It is based on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, and borrows many gameplay mechanics from Pandemic's Star Wars: Battlefront games. The game allows the player to play as both the forces of good and evil, but unlike The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth, the latter option is based around Sauron stopping the One Ring from being destroyed and fighting back. On December 23, 2008 the Playstation 3 demo was made available on the PlayStation Network while the Xbox 360 demo was released January 2, 2009.

Pandemic was aided by Weta Digital in developing the game. They provided many of their digital models, including the fell beasts. Pandemic is also negotiating to use elements that were cut from the films, and have taken inspiration from the novels, such as a level based around Balin's conquest of Moria. Some inspiration was less direct: the heroes decide not to attack Minas Morgul in the novels, so a level in the game was based on what would happen if they had. The game will use Howard Shore's score to the films.

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