Based off both the films and the books, taking the design of the character is one thing – taking the themes of the film and using stills from it to illustrate all those splendid events quite another. Since every time I've been alone with Creative Assembly since the late nineties I've found myself suggesting they should do a Middle Earth: Total War – hey, guys, the Silmarillion's license has to be cheapish, yeah? Or the Adventures of Tom Bombadil? - this glorious chunk of intellectual-property-theft is more than welcome.Īnd it really is well into dodgy IP-use territory. If it wanted to do a quest to get rid of the ring – and it doesn't, though it does feature – it'd involve slowly creating an economic structure large enough to power a military juggernaut hefty enough to bash down the doors of Mordor and shove that ring down Sauron's black throat. While it takes all the lore and runs with it, it doesn't try and simulate the actual film. You can't play Beornings – the best of all the Middle-Earth-blokes and bear-changing honey-cake-eating hard-cases – but you can hire them as Mercenaries, which will have to do. If you're properly perverse, you even have two variety of elves to pick from. This is a 50-years-before-War-of-The-Ring set total conversion of Medieval II (Requiring the Kingdoms add-on pack) and allows you to take control of any of the 12 main players, from Gondor and Rohan to Mordor and The Orcs of the Misty Mountains.
The team – as the size of the project would suggest – know their Tolkein. In fact, with the amount of artifacts related to the Smaug-offing, you half suspect it's the one bit of Lore that the development team knows to. It's the one actual bit of lore on Dale I actually know. It's the home of Bard from famous spectrum videogame the Hobbit, of SAY TO BARD “SHOOT THE DRAGON” fame. They look fancy now, at least, and the sight of the sky filling with fire arrows is as stirring as ever. I'm primarily playing them because Dale is the single major enhancement of the patch, completely reworking what a side who were apparently pretty nob in previous versions. That's the level of fantasy glamour we're dealing with here.
See! Rhun! Who the hell is Rhun? It's a Middle Earth Medieval II mod, and I'm happily fighting just some blokes with nary a whiff of Nazgul, Orcs or Hobbits.Įven my side isn't exactly over-whelmed with Middle-Earth charisma. It's eaten mornings and afternoons and evenings I really can't afford to spend beating the hell out of Rhun. This is the one has been eating most of my time.
I've been primarily playing mods this week.
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