A few years ago, EA Redwood Shoes had revealed that it was developing a? Lord of the Rings game. Then, it was known as The Lord of the Rings: The White Council, and it had striking aspirations as an open-world role-playing game. But, the project was put on a hiatus in a revelation made by EA in 2007, and as of now it seems the game is off their development list.
Was ‘The Lord of the Rings: The White Council’ A Really Expensive Project?
The reason behind the cancellation of the game was not clear. But the developers of the game opened up about it to The Gamer and stated that one major reason was the truth that EA wasn’t interested to take on another large spending venture subsequent to delivering The Godfather in 2006. Executive producer Steve Gray pointed out, “EA had just finished the delivery of The Godfather, a massive and finance gobbling venture that had broken the budget and took additional time. I simply believe there wasn’t craving for another enormous undertaking.”
The company, EA, never formally declared that the project was put to an end, instead it chose to declare that it was put on an uncertain break. Nonetheless, Gray affirmed to The Gamer that the undertaking is “snuffed out and stone cold.” Creative director Chris Tremmel is additionally cited in the piece, and he said the crossing out of the task “is confounded” for an assortment of reasons. Tremmel drilled down certain explanations behind why the game eventually got the boot following two years of advancement, including its excessively goal-oriented extension. He also said EA was attempting to contend with Bethesda and BioWare (which hadn’t been procured by EA by then) to make “a definitive Lord of the Rings insight.”
Tremmel moreover referred to that The White Council was being made for PS3 and Xbox 360 around the start of those console ages, and this move from the last-gen for an online-focused game like The White Council wind up being a tall task. One of the issues was the end of EA’s Lord of the Rings grant. Right when The White Council was dropped in 2007, there wasn’t a great deal of time left on EA’s approving expect The Lord of the Rings, Tremmel expressed, and this was really a concern owing to the fact that the game really required two years of work. The grant finally passed, and now Warner Bros. gotten it to make its own games. Tremmel penetrated down more purposes behind the fixing of The White Council, and you can examine more about them and the game at The Gamer.