LoTR game canned
Vivendi Universal Games have announced the cancellation of their previously upcoming “The Lord of the Rings: The Treason of Isengard” game. Scheduled for release, well – right about now, it turns out that “the game was not shaping up as strongly as anticipated and would likely not satisfy the expectations of Tolkien fans”.
VUG acquired the rights to the literary works of Tolkien in 2001, spawning 6 multiplatform games. This is of course not to be confused with the games based on the movies published by EA.
In a statement by VUG we are, however, assured that future planned games are on the way:
“Vivendi Universal Games remains committed to developing and releasing quality games based on the literary works of J.R.R. Tolkien and we look forward to the release The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring this November, as well as Middle-Earth Online next year.”
