TT Games
TT Games group is a large British video game developer and publisher. It is made up of three divisions, Traveller's Tales, TT Fusion and publisher TT Games Publishing.
TT Games Publishing is based in Maidenhead in Berkshire, England, and is the only publisher to specialize in computer and video games for young gamers and their families.
TT games is well known for their LEGO Video Games. TT Games holds the worldwide rights to develop LEGO video games. So far they have produced nine LEGO video games and all of them have been successful up to date. TT games is the only LEGO video game developers to release so many games on almost all the current consoles in the market.
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LEGO Games
TT games has created many LEGO games, all that incorporate a same type of gameplay, although each game receives something brand new. All the games, with an exception of LEGO Rock Band and LEGO Battles, feature a hub world, were you can walk around, buy things, view the characters you have bought and mini kits, and select which level you will enter. Once you enter a level, the gameplay is a combination of beat'em up and puzzle solving gameplay. Your character can never die permanenly, instead you will simply lose money after getting hit too many times. Humorous cut-scenes play at the beginning, end, and sometimes the middle of levels. The games are considered family friendly.
Each game to date has contributed to the series with a new option, which is usually present in the next LEGO game. In LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, melee combat, building objects with your hands, riding animals and driving vehicles, pushing objects, pulling down levers and the ability to create your own characters was added. In LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, a whip function was created, along with the ability to pick up weapons. The function featured in Indiana Jones did not meet it's way into LEGO Batman: The Video Game and vice-versa. In LEGO Batman, you can change power suits, target people with your batarang, and perform new actions which are made possible through the power suits. In LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues, a split-screen co-op feature will be added along with a new Level creator.
LEGO Rock Band has no fighting or puzzle solving, and simply asks you to play music by tapping the correct buttons on the plastic music peripherals that come with all the games in the Rock Band series. LEGO Battles is a strategy Battle game where you control armies in order to win. BIONICLE Heroes is a third-person shooter videogame, with the same gameplay characteristics as the other LEGO video games.
LEGO The Lord of the Rings
According to Videogamer.com [1], LEGO developer of Traveller's Tales has refused to deny that a LEGO The Lord of the Rings or a LEGO The Hobbit game is in development, but has admitted a LEGO game based on the New Line Cinema films and Tolkien books as he said, "could work". A LEGO The Lord of the Rings and a LEGO The Hobbit game have been heavily rumoured to be in the works for a long period of time.
Speaking to VideoGamer.com, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 producer, Loz Doyle refused to comment on the rumour, saying only "I can't say anything about it". But he was willing to discuss the suitability of the The Lord of the Rings franchise to the much-loved Traveller's Tales LEGO treatment.
Loz Doyle added the following comment, "It's The Lord of the Rings, it has three films and well, plus one if you add The Hobbit. It's got a lot of cool characters. It could definitely work. There are very few things that wouldn't work, don't you think? There is an age limit, and The Lord of the Rings is aimed younger in terms of appropriateness. So in that respect they work. Yeah, it would definitely work."
LEGO video games published and developed by TT games
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Future Video Games
- 2011
