Comments on: Tolkien Games Impressions http://www.bigkid.com.au/2003/04/28/tolkien-games-impressions/ Games news & reviews, Australian game developers Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:09:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5 by: monty http://www.bigkid.com.au/2003/04/28/tolkien-games-impressions/#comment-1759 Mon, 28 Apr 2003 08:10:34 +1000 http://www.bigkid.com.au/2003/04/28/tolkien-games-impressions/#comment-1759 Well, actually, the licence to make games based on the books has been the centre of a legal saga started way before the movies were even conceived. If you remember, Sierra originally held the licence but was stripped of it in court after canning their "Middle Earth" MMORPG team and attempting to turn the game into something the Tolkien estate couldn't live with. At least that is what seemed to be the issue, it was hard to tell with all the legaleeze. Tolkien fans breathed a sigh of relief when it happend because Sierra would have turned the game into a Hanna Barbara cartoon. The project has now been given to Turbine Entertainment, who are responsible for Asheron's Call 1 & 2, so the end result may not be much better. We'll see. The Tolkien licence was always hot property. The films just plastered it (or rather Jackson's version of it) all over popular culture. Well, actually, the licence to make games based on the books has been the centre of a legal saga started way before the movies were even conceived. If you remember, Sierra originally held the licence but was stripped of it in court after canning their "Middle Earth" MMORPG team and attempting to turn the game into something the Tolkien estate couldn’t live with. At least that is what seemed to be the issue, it was hard to tell with all the legaleeze. Tolkien fans breathed a sigh of relief when it happend because Sierra would have turned the game into a Hanna Barbara cartoon. The project has now been given to Turbine Entertainment, who are responsible for Asheron’s Call 1 & 2, so the end result may not be much better. We’ll see.

The Tolkien licence was always hot property. The films just plastered it (or rather Jackson’s version of it) all over popular culture.

]]> by: Gazunta http://www.bigkid.com.au/2003/04/28/tolkien-games-impressions/#comment-1760 Mon, 28 Apr 2003 10:30:07 +1000 http://www.bigkid.com.au/2003/04/28/tolkien-games-impressions/#comment-1760 You think that's weird - there was a Blade Runner game made in 1985 by CRL. The funny thing was that they couldn't get the rights to the movie itself, so they licensed the SOUNDTRACK. A game based on the soundtrack based on the movie...unsurprisingly it turned out crap. You think that’s weird - there was a Blade Runner game made in 1985 by CRL. The funny thing was that they couldn’t get the rights to the movie itself, so they licensed the SOUNDTRACK.

A game based on the soundtrack based on the movie…unsurprisingly it turned out crap.

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