EA Games Announces The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age

Epic Adventure Lets Players Choose Their Own Path Through the Events of New Line Cinema's Acclaimed Trilogy

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 2004--Return to Middle-earth™ to forge a new adventure...Electronic Arts (Nasdaq:ERTS) announced today that The Lord of the Rings™, The Third Age™ roleplaying game is under development for a planned fall 2004 release. The epic quest, in which players will take on the roles of new characters choosing their own path through Middle-earth while interacting with the heroes and villains of the trilogy, will be available for the PlayStation©2 computer entertainment system, the Xbox© videogame system from Microsoft, Nintendo GameCube™, and Game Boy© Advance under the EA GAMES™ brand.