As far as fantasy settings go, and as much as I'm sure you're all living it up in the land of Skyrim, it's Tolkein's Middle Earth that set the cadence and tone for generations to come. It was an interesting choice then for Warner Bros Interactive to launch Lord of the Rings: War in the North in the same month as what will arguably go down as the most successful high-fantasy game ever released.
But they are very different games, and resident LotR fanboy (and Peter Jackson's personal ladyboy), Kosta Andreadis took the co-op centric game through its motions, and came out reasonably impressed with what's on offer here.
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