Pandemic Studios has confirmed that The Lord of the Rings: Conquest for the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3, PC and the Nintendo DS platforms, will be available in the UK on January 16th 2009.

In a partnership with New Line Cinema and The Saul Zaentz Company, The Lord of the Rings: Conquest is an action-packed game created by the same Pandemic Studios team behind the best-selling Star Wars Battlefront and Star Wars Battlefront II titles.

Set in “The Lord of the Rings” universe of J.R.R. Tolkien as depicted by the films, players will finally fight the entirety of these epic battles any way they want. In addition to crusading as the heroic forces of good, for the first time ever in a ‘The Lord of the Rings’ action title they’ll conquer Middle-earth while playing as the legions of Sauron’s evil army, including Cave-trolls, Oliphaunts, the Balrog and Sauron himself.