Remember The Battle for Middle-Earth games? Like the Balrog in the depths of the Mines of Moria, the real-time strategy series was left dormant after its online servers were snuffed out when EA's The Lord of the Rings licence expired in 2010.
Now, there's a new fan project that has rebuilt The Battle for Middle-Earth in Unreal Engine 4 - and there's a fancy new teaser video.
Based on the video, it's clear a lot of work has already been done to get The Battle for Middle-Earth up and running in Epic's game engine. According to the project's , all the original game's code has been rewritten, but the developers are working to preserve the original gameplay. The focus is multiplayer, but if all goes well, the developers may make a campaign.

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It's launch morning for The Crew 2, and I've logged in to do a final network test. The always-online racing game's predecessor on release, so I want to see if the new game is holding up. It's been stable playing with early access players this week, but would the influx of new people cause problems? So far, all is well (unless you're .) Players are popping up nearby, rather than halfway across the map as they have done during the sparsely populated early access period. They crawl their Lamborghinis up to my stationary 1993 Porsche and rev in wordless invitation to a drag race. They don't need to ask twice and we roar off up the Pacific coast road out of Malibu.
It's a fun moment, but then we just peel off and go our separate ways, because there is hardly anything for us to do together in this game.
The Crew was a scrappy but ultimately lovable open-world racing game with unrealised massively multiplayer aspirations. It was made by Lyon studio Ivory Tower, itself formed by veterans of Eden Studios, makers of the Test Drive Unlimited games, which were scrappy but ultimately lovable open-world racing games with unrealised massively multiplayer aspirations. Things have changed, a little: The Crew 2 doesn't feel so scrappy. It is almost polished (though my PS4 version crashed three times during review). But those aspirations are still unrealised, and the game is underdeveloped in other areas than its network code and bug fixes. There's a sense that it will be much better in six months to a year's time than it is at launch - just like The Crew was. Plus ça change.

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Black Fps is a multiplayer first person shooter game powered by Unreal Engine. Set in the near future, the game allows you to choose one of four different characters.

Black Fps is a multiplayer first person shooter game powered by Unreal Engine. Set in the near future, the game allows you to choose one of four different characters.