The game version of the film of the same name released for PC/PS2 in 2003.lord of the rings return of the king(hereinafter referred to as “LOTR”) and the unexpected relationship between professional golfer Tiger Woods was revealed.
Survival Horror Game”The Callisto ProtocolGlenn Schofield director appears and answers various questions submitted by Twitter.
In response to the question “Why don’t development studios create their own game engines?”, Mr. Scofield replied that building an engine from scratch would take too much time and money and be difficult. When I was developing LOTR, I mentioned an incident where I spent too much time developing the engine.
After spending a year building the engine, he decided to reuse the engine from Tiger Woods’ golf game. “LOTR has a large area and there are castles and forts at the end of the area,” he said, focusing on the resemblance to a golf course with a hole at the end of a long area. A clever use case of repurposing a golf game engine into an action game.
Additionally, former EA game developer Nick Ferguson said that some of the VFX code for “LOTR” was later used for the PSP version released in 2005.Tiger Woods PGA TOUR, and was used for the smoke effect of the ball. It turned out that the code of characters such as Gandalf was also mentioned in the same work.