Fourth Age: Total War, New Trailer

**Professor420** · 09-12-2005, 00:41

Just in case many of you don't visit our forum on SCC or our website, www.thefourthage.net, I thought I'd post it here as well:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=23Z5J5N8

Its 32 megs, and 4 minutes long at 640x480. Please tell me what you think.

**ScionTheWorm** · 09-12-2005, 01:32

it rocks big time. I remember I hadn't cheked your mod out for some months, and then came back and took a look - it was awesome. Maybe my second favourite mod that's in development.

**shifty157** · 09-12-2005, 02:16

That was an amazing trailer!

Awesome work!

**Alexanderofmacedon** · 09-12-2005, 15:58

The Fourth Age is a Lord of The Rings Mod right? It is the same thing as the Lord of the Rings Total War thread in these same forums? Do the same people make it? It looks very similar.

**Apoc** · 09-12-2005, 16:39

The Fourth Age: Total War is a Middle-earth modification; technically it cannot be called a LotR mod, because there is no Lord of the Rings (and no rings) anymore, this being the Fourth Age and all. The mod is based on one of Tolkien's unfinished tales, 'The New Shadow', but we draw on all the works of Tolkien for information and inspiration.

The Fourth Age: Total War and The Lord of the Rings: Total War are two completely different mods; the first a total conversion focusing on the full single player experience, made by a team of people based solely on the written works of J.R.R. Tolkien; the second a mod made by one man, wlesmana, focusing (for the moment, at least) on single player custom battles and multiplayer, with no campaign. It is also based on Peter Jackson's adaptation of Tolkien's book, and not on the book itself.

wlesmana is a part of the FA:TW Mod Team, but no work has been shared between the mods because of their difference in nature, so the similarities must come from the fact that both mods share the same foundation - the works of Tolkien. Myself, I don't see very many similarities, other than the fact that both mods look great ;)

Apoc

**Alexanderofmacedon** · 09-12-2005, 18:41

Wow, that's cool. That's what I've been wanting to hear from the LOTR moderator. I want a campaign map so bad! Thanks for making my dreams come true guys! When is the release?

**Professor420** · 09-18-2005, 06:50

Yes, Fraps is good, but I prefer using the RTW editor and video editing programs. Fraps is more for benchmarking, and as a last resort for taking ingame movies... the RTW movie editor gives quite excellent control and output. And I would have needed to use video editing programs regardless.

BTW, the trailer is at 760 Downloads... that about 110 a day!