{"id":87577,"date":"2026-08-14T09:13:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87577"},"modified":"2026-08-14T09:38:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:38:03","slug":"2011-lord-of-the-rings-game-didnt-get-a-fair-shake-launching-near-skyrim-former-wb-boss-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87577","title":{"rendered":"2011 Lord Of The Rings Game Didn\u2019t Get A \u201cFair Shake\u201d Launching Near Skyrim, Former WB Boss Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christian Allen, who was on the leadership team at Warner Bros. Games when 2011&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings: War in the North came out, has commented on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/2011-the-lord-of-the-rings-game-gets-surprise-re-release-today\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/2011-the-lord-of-the-rings-game-gets-surprise-re-release-today\/\">recent re-release<\/a>, saying he&#8217;s happy the game is coming back because it didn&#8217;t get a &#8220;fair shake&#8221; upon its original release. Why&#8217;s that? He said he &#8220;argued vociferously&#8221; not to release it at the same time as Bethesda&#8217;s iconic RPG The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;15 years ago I argued vociferously not to release this up against Skyrim, as it wouldn&#8217;t get a fair shake. I got overruled,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Serellan\/status\/2087601408380228005\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Serellan\/status\/2087601408380228005\">said<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/former-wb-director-says-lord-of-the-rings-war-in-the-north-should-never-have-released-at-the-same-time-as-skyrim\/#google_vignette\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/former-wb-director-says-lord-of-the-rings-war-in-the-north-should-never-have-released-at-the-same-time-as-skyrim\/#google_vignette\">via VGC<\/a>). &#8220;Nice to see it get a proper release.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1850037\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/warinthenorth_7bc860.jpg?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1850037\" \/>War in the North is back. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">War in the North was originally released on November 1, 2011&#8211;just 10 days later, Bethesda released Skyrim. In addition to launching around the same time as Skyrim, War in the North launched on the same day as Uncharted 3: Drake&#8217;s Deception and a week before Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Allen did not work directly on War in the North in a development capacity, but he was on the studio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Allen, who was on the leadership team at Warner Bros. Games when 2011&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings: War in the North came out, has commented on the recent re-release, saying he&#8217;s happy the game is coming back because it didn&#8217;t get a &#8220;fair shake&#8221; upon its original release. Why&#8217;s that? He said he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":87579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87577","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\/87577"}],"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=87577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87580,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87577\/revisions\/87580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}