The newest video game based on people walking to a fucking volcano. Anyways, it's made by Snowblind who, well, always makes the same exact game based on a different property. Alteast the games are good though. Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance, Champions of Norrath, Champions Return to Arms, Untold Legends PSP games.
I'm somewhat thinking that this game is going to suck though. During the time that Snowblind was making games exclusively for Sony, they made the Untold Legends Dark Kingdom for the PS3. Instead of being their same tried and true method of gameplay, they tried to implent sort of combo type gameplay, along with abilities and spells that just sucked. So it was basically a hack and slash with an extremely generic combo system which I personally think made the game less fun to play. No weapon drops, rather you collected weapon orbs at certain points to mix and match in order to change your weapons. So if Lord of the Rings has any hopes to being good, they'll remove what good ideas they came from with Untold Legends Dark Kingdom.
Here's the trailer for Lord of the Rings War in the North. Limited class selection of a whole three characters once again. Already looking bad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUAc2qxgxfE