Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Background History: The Two Towers Video Game

Again following in order the books the next game to be made was The Two Towers, again following the same concept as before in which you are Frodo and you continue on your adventure across Middle Earth. Although this game came out in the same year as the first one(2002), it has considerately better graphics and follows the films more than the books, unlike the first game, due to the change in company going from Vivendi Universal Games to the more popular and well known Electronic Arts. 



This was actually quite a strange film, even though it had the title The Two Towers, it was actually a playthrough of some of the first game as well as the second. It had a rather strange mix of the first game, starting at Mount Doom you played as, I think, Isildor and start in the battle, but after about 15 minutes your already up to the Mines of Moria, as you only play as the men, elves and dwarves in this game, not Frodo or the other Hobbits. The only other thing that bugged me about this game, and scared me in places is when it cuts from the movie scenes, as this is an Electronic Arts game who usually used movie footage in their games around this time, to the scenes where you play; due to the graphics being quite poor and sometimes scary in places.

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