A few months ago EGM ran a preview on a LOTR game that wasn't being handled by EA. It was being touted as a 'literary adaptation' and was supposedly more RPG-ish and not a hack and slash like the EA movie tie-in. There was an ad for it in the October EGM and I was surprised to see that it is PS2 and X-Box when the preview originally said it was X-Box only.

Has anyone heard or seen anythng about this? Is it supposed to better than the upcoming EA version?

There's going to be a Two Towers game for the PS2 and a Fellowship Of The Ring game for X-Box.

www.thelordoftherings.com

All three systems are getting book based games.

As well as GBA.

I hope it ends up being good, as I don't have high hopes for EA's version.

From what I've read and seen it looks to just be a movie licensed "beat'em up."

Thanks for the info everyone. I agree with the movie licensed being a "beat 'em up". From what I read in EGM and what I saw on the bonus disc of LOTR, my expectations of the game aren't that high.

I wonder....will Tom Bombadil be in the book version?

I'm pretty sure I remember reading that this game will have characters that weren't in the movie. Tom was mentioned specifically.

From what I've read, the hack-and-slash movie adaptation will debut on PS2 and come out for Xbox and Gamecube later on, but the RPG based on the book is an Xbox exclusive.

That's what I thought but the ad for it in the new EGM says otherwise.

I missed that in your initial post. I'll have to check it out. I've got the latest EGM at home, but it's gone unread (too busy playing Mario Sunshine to read about other games).

EA's one is the Two Towers (although it will have some Fellowship in it) while Universal's will be Fellowship translation.
I didn't care much for Universal's, but after starting The Thing, I could be wrong-I'll check out EA's first.

Extended Play ran a story on the movie vs. book adaptation. They stated that the book is X-Box but maybe their info is wrong. Hey, they showed an artist's rendition of Tom Bombadil for the Universal game!

BTW - whatever happened to Kate Botello?