Making a video game often takes huge amounts of time and money, which pushes studios to find creative ways to streamline production. Sometimes those solutions are so surprising, they become part of gaming legend. Case in point: one of the most beloved Lord of the Rings games owes its success to… the engine from a golf game.
A Classic with Unlikely Roots
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, released in 2003 for PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, and PC, has been praised as a standout adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s iconic world. But, as revealed by American video game producer Glen Schofield in a Wired interview, this acclaimed title was actually built on the engine of Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf, a sports game from 2001. The developers at EA Redwood Shores repurposed this in-house EA engine—originally used for expansive virtual golf courses—to recreate
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