Game

The Lord of the Rings: War in the North

2011 · PlayStation 3 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Mac · Xbox 360 · Role-playing (RPG) · Strategy · Hack and slash/Beat 'em up

68IGDB player score
164 ratings

Previously Take

That 68 average hides a game its 164 fans would defend to the death. A role-playing game built for the long haul — the kind you lose weekends to. A full single-player game with a multiplayer side that refuses to die.

About this game

The Lord of the Rings: War in the North is a co-op Action RPG that immerses you and your friends in a brutal new chapter in the War of the Ring. Snowblind Studios is in the unique position of drawing inspiration from both the literary and film rights to world of Middle-earth, allowing players to bloody their axes on a wide range of deadly enemies and traverse both established and never-before-seen locations. The result is a journey that is both epic and intimate, familiar yet unexpected.

While much attention and focus has been placed on the journey of the One Ring, the assault on Middle-earth hits all corners of the map. War in the North turns our attention towards an integral part of the storyline that is grounded in details within the books and various appendices. This is not someone else’s fight. This is your own effort to forage a way through the dark, dangerous, and unknown landscape, defending all that is yours. This is your war.