Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment and TT Games have today announced the UK release date of the latest instalment in their LEGO platforming video game franchise. Titled LEGO The Hobbit, the spiritual successor to 2012's LEGO The Lord of the Rings will depict the events of both An Unexpected Journey and The Desolation of Smaug and boast an updated version of its predecessor's open-world Middle-Earth.
That's not all, however: in addition to the 16 levels covering the storylines of the first two films in Peter Jackson's trilogy of The Lord of the Rings prequels, developers TT confirmed that a downloadable campaign of extra levels will be utilised to adapt the events of this December's There & Back Again onto the small-screen. In other words, classic setpieces of J.R.R. Tolkien's original novel The Hobbit such as the fall of the villainous Smaug, the White Council's reclamation of Dol Gudur by force and the momentous Battle of Five Armies are still on the way to the LEGOverse, albeit in a slightly condensed and belated form. With any luck, each of the locations included in the DLC pack will be integrated into the already-extensive free-roaming experience that allows players to explore Middle-Earth's locales in all of their shining glory.
LEGO The Hobbit journeys onto PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Nintendo WiiU, Nintendo 3DS and PC this April 11th- check out a new gameplay preview from VG 24-7 below.
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