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ROTK Preview on 'Electric Playground'
Xoanon @ 12:09 pm EST

Ryan writes: I'm not sure if it was a repeat, but I just watched The Electric Playground (videogame and comic book show) and they previewed the Return of the King game coming out November 4.

The interview was with Steve Gray (director of game development) and he gave away a lot of details. He mentioned that two players can now place this game (as opposed to TTT game, in which only one player could play) and some of the playable characters include Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Faramir, Eowyn, Gollum, Sam, Frodo, and Gandalf, among others. Far more characters to choose from this time.

He also talked about how much the Nazguls will be involved in the game.

They showed lots of clips with the Nazgul attacking Minis Tirith. He also mentioned that Shelob will be in the game (I'm assuming as a 'boss'), but of course they didn't dare show her yet.

Another highlight of the preview was some in-game sequences showing massive trolls pushing huge siege towers up to the first wall of Minis Tirith, which we only caught a little glimpse of in the RotK featurette on TTT DVD.

This game is going to be incredible - even the stunt crew from the movies came in during the videogame production to motion capture all of their moves.