The Lord of the Rings game you've always wanted is this fan-made Unreal Engine 5 project

This fan-made trailer imagining a Lord of the Rings game built in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Unreal Engine 5 is the middle earth RPG you've always wanted.

That's not to say there aren't any great Lord of the Rings games out there. I remember the GameCube movie tie-ins being some of my favorite games as a kid, and I spent a whole summer playing the MMO back in college. 2017's Midd꧟le-earth: Shadow of War and 2014's Shadow of Mordor, the two most recent adaptations, do let you explore a number of iconic locations from the movies in incredible visual detail for the time, but you're so busy decapitating orcs in those games that you don't real🌌ly have time to take in your surroundings.

), we get to explore, arguably, the most memorable locations from the books and movies: Hobbiton, Rivendell, and the Tower of Mordor in absolutely stunning clarity. It's just too bad it isn't real. You can see every artist included in the montage in the , but suffice it to say, none of them hold the license to the franchise and thus, probably won't be releasing anything playable any time soon.

Still, it's an absolute treat to see such a beautiful recreation of Tolkien's universe while we wait for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, Daedalic's Stealth-focused adaptation that was recently delayed beyond its planned September launch by "a few months෴."

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