Out of nowhere, the Embracer-owned Aspyr Media announced and released a new edition of The Lord of the Rings: War in the North today across PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC. <\/p>\n
The game was originally released in 2011 for PS3, Xbox 360, Switch 2, and PC, but now it’s available on the latest generation of consoles for $20 (or $18 through August 25) as part of a “Legacy” edition. The new version features online or local split-screen co-op and “optimized” solo play, though further specifics about the updates and upgrades were not detailed.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G_gZuaXTDEo <\/p>\n
War in the North was originally developed by Snowblind Studios, which closed in 2012. The game takes place in Middle-earth, but doesn’t adapt the books or movies. It does, however, feature characters and story details from J.R.R. Tolkien’s books and Peter Jackson’s movie series, following EA’s own games that only had the rights to elements of Jackson’s movies specifically.<\/p>\n
The game has three different playable characters: the ranger Eradan<\/a>, the elf Andriel<\/a>, and the dwarf Farin.<\/a> Players can swap between each during battle. The characters have their own unique skills and abilities, and players can upgrade them over time with new weapons and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Out of nowhere, the Embracer-owned Aspyr Media announced and released a new edition of The Lord of the Rings: War in the North today across PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC. The game was originally released in 2011 for PS3, Xbox 360, Switch 2, and PC, but now it’s available on the latest generation of consoles…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":87413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87414,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87411\/revisions\/87414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}