Peter Jackson displeased with EA's LOTR games

Fran Walsh and Peter JacksonPeter Jackson, director of the Lord of the Rings series of films, has gone on the record as saying he "didn't like working with EA" on the Lord of the Rings games. Apparently this was the reason behind his decision to switch developers from EA to Ubisoft for the game version of his upcoming King Kong film.

This brings a new angle to Jackson's original public reasoning for switching to Ubisoft; that he liked their commercially unsuccessful, but critically acclaimed game Beyond Good and Evil. That's in contrast with the commercial success of the LOTR games, despite the general consensus in the gaming press that the games were nothing too special. It looks as if Jackson was more concerned with the games being fun and true to the LOTR universe than he was for the games to rake in as much money as possible.

Could it be true? Has the games industry finally met a director concerned with creating quality games based on films, rather than treating them merely as a way of grabbing some extra cash on the back of a new movie release? If so, then this man was surely the right choice for producing the Halo movie.

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