GamingUnion.net: "Most movie-to-game titles generally share the same problem; when two completely different media for art collides, either one will oftentimes come out on top of the other. It's not that a game is worse than a film at delivering an engaging story or a memorable experience, but being two completely different media of entertainment, the transition doesn't usually end well. The rule of thumb tends to be whichever platform the franchise comes out on first is better, but every once and a while we get something that really breaks the mold. The Lord of the Rings has had a series of hit-or-miss titles all trying to recapture the essence of the popular books and films, but there's always been something directly lacking from the full scope of Tolkien's world when compressed into a video game. That is, until War in the North came around."
YouTube’s ‘John GodGames Emus’ and ‘Emulators for PC’ have shared some new videos, showing GUN, Bodycount, The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, Wanted: Weapons of Fate and more running on the latest version of the best Xbox 360 emulator, Xenia.
by Caspar Leblanc:
"When you first started playing Spec Ops: The Line , you might feel that it’s just another brainless third person shooter, and some parts are kind of boring, that’s what I thought as well, but I was really into shooter games so I finished it and I was totally impressed by its story, don’t worry not spoilers, If you want to know why this game is on the list, and you are interested in good stories, go play it and pay attention to the plot, you will agree my opinion afterwards."
The Saboteur was great, nice art style and such a good soundtrack. Hunted was cool but very flawed.
Alice the Madness Returns is still really cool for those who like the premise. The original Dead Space holds up well. Catherine has aged incredibly well. The Suda 51 games are all still great if you can dig quirkiness (Shadows of the damned, Lollipop Chainsaw, Killer is dead). There are lots more, many have had remasters already though.
Totally agree, Alice the Madness Returns was good, and Split Second mentioned in the article was not bad as well
I always felt that Saboteur was under appreciated, I really did like that game a lot. It was a real shame when Pandemic got shut down.
Celebrating the launch of the new Hobbit movie, The Lord of the Rings Bundle from Bundle Stars brings LEGO: The Hobbit and even more Middle-earth games to Windows PC for only $9.99 / £7.79 / €9.79.
Doesn't seem too bad - just not what people were probably hoping for.
Played some at Eurogamer and it was lacking....It could be great but i felt it was missing a thing or two
Played some of this at E3.. it definitely wasn't the worst game there... but still not the greatest...