EA Made A LotR Game With A Tiger Woods Engine - Kotaku
Anyway, to help drum up publicity for the new horror game, director Glen Schofield has been going around doing interviews and whatnot.
You see, when he was a producer on 2003 licensed beat ‘em up The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, his team spent a year working on a new engine for the game.And weirdly enough, he came to the conclusion that the latest Tiger Woods golf game had the perfect engine.
And so we took the Tiger Woods engine and turned that into a Lord of the Rings engine.”.
It turns out, according to a former EA dev, that some modified Lord of the Rings visual effects code was later re-used on a PSP Tiger Woods game to create puffs of smoke during ball impact.