Surprising relationship between game version “LOTR” and Tiger Woods? “The Callisto Protocol” Director’s clever use of the game engine | Game*Spark

The game version of the movie of the same name released for PC/PS2 in 2003.lord of the rings return of the king(hereinfollowing referred to as “LOTR”) and professional golfer Tiger Woods’ unexpected relationship has been revealed.

The survival horror game “The Callisto Protocol‘s director Glenn Schofield appears and answers various questions sent from Twitter.

In response to the question, “Why don’t development studios create their own game engines?” Mr. Scofield answered that creating an engine from scratch would take too much time and money and would be difficult. When I was developing LOTR, I talked regarding an episode where I spent too much time developing the engine.

After spending a year building the engine, he decided to repurpose the engine from Tiger Woods’ golf game. He said, “ LOTR has a vast area, and there are castles and fortresses at the end of the area. A smart use case of reusing a golf game engine in an action game.

Also, former EA game developer Nick Ferguson said that some of the VFX code for “LOTR” was later used for the PSP version released in 2005.Tiger Woods PGA TOUR, and was used for the ball’s smoke effect. The code of characters such as Gandalf was also revealed to be referenced in the same work.

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