There’s a bit of a debate going on on GameGirlAdvance about the way the battle scenes in the Lord of the Rings movies were programmed and whether it was “borrowed” from computer games.

I can remember being impressed 2 years ago when Fellowship of the Ring came out – and I can remember reading in Empire Magazine (can’t find the exact article – their archives don’t appear to go back that far) about how each of the soldiers in the HUGE battle scenes had their own minds (and how human, elf, orc, etc, etc minds were all slightly different) but I hadn’t previously equated it with anything in videogames…..