More Lord of the Rings Remasters Are in the Works Following War in the North Re-Release, Confirms Aspyr

Aspyr has plans to re-release much Lord of the Rings games pursuing its shadiness driblet of The Lord of the Rings: War successful the North connected modern platforms.

In a property merchandise for the caller mentation of War successful the North, Aspyr planted a tiny tease for the aboriginal of the Lord of the Rings franchise successful gaming: "The Lord of the Rings: War successful the North – Legacy Edition is licensed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and is the archetypal The Lord of the Rings rubric released by Aspyr," reads the property release. "Fans tin look guardant to adjacent much classical releases by Aspyr from the beloved franchise successful the future!"

That past portion is the astir notable bit, arsenic it confirms we volition beryllium seeing much re-releases of classical Lord of the Rings games successful the future. It's unclear which titles whitethorn follow, but determination are a fewer possibilities. Aspyr has spent a batch of clip bringing games to the Nintendo Switch, truthful it wouldn't beryllium shocking if the workplace ported Shadow of Mordor and/or Shadow of War to Switch 2 successful the future. What fans truly want, however, are apt re-releases of the titles made nether EA successful the aboriginal to mid 2000s.

This would see the movie tie-in games made during the PS2 era, specified arsenic the critically-acclaimed The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, and The Lord of the Rings: Conquest, which is fundamentally Star Wars: Battlefront successful Middle-earth. The second wasn't arsenic well-received by critics, but it holds a brushed spot among immoderate fans. There are besides a clump of large strategy games similar Battle for Middle-earth that fans would emotion to revisit. It's unclear if there'd beryllium immoderate rights issues with those games, fixed EA published them.

Although Warner Bros. holds the rights to the franchise, licensed games from this epoch are notoriously wrapped up successful each kinds of rights issues (see Activision's Marvel games, for example). We've reached retired to Aspyr for remark connected whether the EA titles are just crippled oregon not, but either way, much classical Lord of the Rings games are connected the mode to modern hardware.

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