Previewing the Return of the King Campaign news

We hope you've been enjoying Version 8.0 and its subsequent patches. When we released 8.0, we made a point of mentioning that this was our last proper release and that the Return of the King campaign wasn't happening. The reason for this is that while we certainly had written out a bunch of what we wanted to do for these missions, we weren't sure if we had the manpower to pull them off as epically as we wanted to. Once we realized that yes, we could do it, we announced that the continuation of our epic Lord of the Rings campaign was indeed in development.

That's what this article is previewing. It's not a wordy article like you might be used to from us. We're not discussing objectives or revealing the names or order of the missions. That's all going to be a surprise, and these few screenshots are more of a taste of what to expect in terms of immersion and storytelling.

Return of the King already outmatches our previous campaigns in terms of numbers of custom assets made. There's hundreds of new and exclusive props already created - ranging from city structures, doodads, new characters, new animations and many hundreds of new voice lines (and much more) - bringing the story to life in a way that we haven't achieved before.

Like Fellowship of the Ring and Two Towers before it, the Return of the King will cover familiar events, but will also feature places and stories never-before-seen in a Lord of the Rings video game adaptation...

We are taking great care in carrying on past story threads, including the fates of those you've managed to save from their doom in prior missions...

That's all for now. Look out for 8.3 sometime in the near future. The Return of the King, however, will not be released for a long time. But when it is, it will be worth the wait!

Yours,
The Age of the Ring Team