The Lord of the Rings is one of the best and most adored fantasy IPs ever, but you might not know it if you only ever dabbled in Lord of the Rings video games. It’s been a whopping 23 years since Peter Jackson’s brilliant Lord of the Rings trilogy ended and the phenomenal Lord of the Rings: Return of the King game adaptation was released, though there still hasn’t been a Lord of the Rings game as great as it since (besides Monolith’s Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and Middle-earth: Shadow of War, at least).
Ironically, the newly announced Lord of the Rings game from Warhorse is being called a ‘Middle-earth game,’ and there are already plenty of expectations that fans understandably have about an open-world RPG that’s being made by the developers of the Kingdom Come franchise. The Lord of the Rings IP would be a huge undertaking for any studio, but fans are beginning to acknowledge that Warhorse’s penchant for realism might clash with a franchise that couldn’t be more different.
On Reddit, fans are torn between their love for the Kingdom Come: Deliverance games and the Lord of the Rings franchise, and are desperately...
