Pandemic™ Studios is proud to announce the development of The Lord of the Rings: Conquest™ for the Xbox 360. In a partnership with New Line Cinema, The Lord of the Rings: Conquest is an action-packed game created by the same Pandemic Studios team behind the best-selling Star Wars Battlefront™ and Star Wars Battlefront™ II titles.

Set in “The Lord of the Rings” universe of J.R.R. Tolkien as depicted by the Academy Award®-winning films, players will finally fight the entirety of these epic battles any way they want.  In addition to crusading as the heroic forces of good, for the first time ever in a ‘The Lord of the Rings’ action title they’ll conquer Middle-earth while playing as the legions of Sauron’s evil army, including Cave-trolls, Oliphaunts, the Balrog and Sauron himself.

Either way, The game is set for a global release in fall 2008, but you can watch the world premiere of game footage and the first trailer for The Lord of the Rings: Conquest exclusively on Spike TV’s GameTrailers TV with Geoff Keighley on Friday, June 20. We’ll try to have it posted as soon as it has been shown on TV.