Get ready to immerse yourself in the exciting world of Middle Earth with details emerging for Guardians of Middle Earth. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Monolith Productions today unveiled the box art along with the release date. The game will be available for purchase for the PlayStation 3 at select UK and US retailers, as well as via download on PlayStation Network and Xbox LIVE Arcade for the Xbox 360 starting in December.
Digital editions will be available for £11.99 and $14.99 respectively on PlayStation Network, and for a purchase price of 1200 Microsoft Points on Xbox LIVE Arcade for Xbox 360 from 4th December 2012. Downloadable content will also be released digitally after the game launch, which can be bought via Xbox LIVE Marketplace for Xbox 360 and PlayStation Network individually or as a Season Pass.
A special bundle of Guardians of Middle Earth will also be available at select UK and US retailers for £24.99 and $29.99 for PlayStation 3 system from 4th December, 2012. Incorporated with the purchase of the game is pre-paid, discounted access to the digital content presented post-launch, all along with PSN vouchers equal in value to the full game, plus the Season Pass of the DLC.
Digital content of Guardians of Middle Earth consists of game maps, one bonus gameplay mode and numerous supplementary good and evil characters, some of which will be based on key characters in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey motion picture, which is set for release on 14th December, 2012, directed by Peter Jackson and a production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
Guardians of Middle Earth is a forthcoming multiplayer online video game being developed by Monolith Productions and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The setting of the game is Middle-earth, derived from The Lord of the Rings series, with a variety of tie-ins to the film series of the same name. It incorporates standard elements with a heavy focus on team management. Up to ten players may split into two teams of five and from a pool of twenty guardians from The Lord of the Rings franchise, including Gandalf and Sauron and manage to win matches by destroying the opposing team's base.
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