After a return to television with The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth is set to make a splash in gaming.
According to IGN, an open-world MMO game based on The Lord of the Rings has been announced by Amazon Games. Amazon Games Orange County (New World) is said to be leading development for the game, and the title is expected to launch for PC and consoles.
We don’t have a release window yet, but it’s also said that the game will be featuring stories from both The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit; seeing that Amazon is also behind the product, I would expect some kind of tie-in to their show Rings of Power.
Amazon Games vice president Christoph Hartmann had this to say about the upcoming game:
“Bringing players a fresh take on The Lord of the Rings has long been an aspiration for our team, and we’re honoured and grateful that Middle-earth Enterprises is entrusting us with this iconic world… This is a completely new game because the license is much, much wider… Obviously, there’s nothing changing because we all know the world is set, the characters are set. It’s really the freedom we have in terms of gameplay features where now anything is possible, and the limitation is where it’s technically possible or not.”
We probably already have an idea of an open-world Middle-earth game thanks to Shadow of Mordor, but maybe we could be getting something less dark with this upcoming MMO.
With Middle-earth being this massive setting for characters, the limits for this upcoming MMO are endless.
No release date has been announced for the Lord of the Rings MMO, but you can catch The Rings of Power now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
