The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
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…
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North is an adventure developed by Snowblind Studios, released 1 November 2011 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Lord of the Rings: War in the North is
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North is an adventure game developed by Snowblind Studios and released in 2011. It was published by WB Games. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Dark Alliance Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 46 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the The Lord of the Rings series
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North is the 39th of 69 entries we hold in the The Lord of the Rings series. The next entry was The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle Earth in 2012. Its critic score of 66 is 8 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring at 91.
How it was received
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 27% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 2 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 68, across 164 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core2 Duo 2.4 GHz or AMD 64 X2 4400, 2 GB RAM and 2006 or later GeForce 8600 or Radeon HD 2600. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 10GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North launched on 1 November 2011, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception and Minecraft: Java Edition. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Minecraft: Java Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Lord of the Rings: War in the North yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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