<p>I don't have it because I don't live in Germany, but I did make a mistake. I only read about it being released in March, as far as I know, the catalog didn't say if it would include two or all films. </p>

<p>Well, can Greeny1 show me? He mentioned it in the "only the first two forum". </p>

<div class="quote"><i> <p>SeanWheeler wrote: However, I highly disagree with that. Why would they have two thirds of a book? Especially with that big cliffhanger at the end of Desolation of Smaug? And There and Back Again was written in the fine print which may imply that it is in the game. And the deletion of Cheetah and Lady Deathstrike has proven that news sites have been wrong before. </p> </i></div>
<p>Per Berrybrick. Also remember that originally there were only going to be two Hobbit movies. I would imagine that level planning is one of the earliest steps in the game development, so the number and order of levels might have been planned before Peter Jackson wanted a third movie. If the game only includes An Unexpected Journey and Desolation of Smaug I believe it will include the main events at the end of the Hobbit which will be found in the There And Back Again film; they will just be grouped in with Desolation of Smaug. </p><p>Though I can't prove it, I believe something rather similar happened with the sets... I suspect that originally 79001_Escape_from_Mirkwood_Spiders and 79004_Barrel_Escape were not meant to be "Hobbit Trilogy Preview sets" as they were marked in the catalogs, but sets reflecting events which were to appear in An Unexpected Journey. The first film was going to end following the Barrel Escape. However, Peter Jackson decided he needed three films because of everything he wanted to have in the saga. The sets had already been planned, thus LEGO just released them even though they weren't going to be in the film. Note I can't prove this theory but it seems rather logical. </p>

<p>As far as I can remember, Desolation of Smaug was the title that was thought of later, not There and Back Again. In fact, the teaser poster says There and Back Again instead of Desolation of Smaug. While Desolation of Smaug was released first, There and Back Again was thought of first. </p>

<p>In fact, here is some proof, let me take to back to when the title names were confirmed and first inserted into One Wiki to Rule Them All. See? The second movie back then was There and Back Again, not Desolation of Smaug. This mystery isn't solved yet. </p>

Then it would seem that in the later stages of development they merely changed the name of the second group of levels from "There and Back Again" to "Desolation of Smaug."

<p>Wasn't this game just confirmed last month? Seems new to me. They usually announce games very early in development. The series was confirmed as a trilogy last year. A whole year before the game was even announced. And even if they we at some early stage that no one knew about, if they took the liberty of changing There and Back Again to Desolation of Smaug, why not just add more levels and reorganize them to three films? </p>

<p>Videogames can take years to develop, and usually aren't announced until the developers have a solid product they can build up hype for. The game is scheduled for release in March (just three months from now), meaning that it's practically done at this point. Making a videogame requires a lot of work. One can't easily "add levels" to a game that's already past that early conceptual stage where they determine not only the number of levels and what sections of the storyline the level will cover, but the mechanics of the level; what the character must do to advance in the level. It is possible, but it would take a lot more time. But one can easily change a name. It's just a line of text. </p><p>Also note that just because they are supposedly only covering AUJ and DoS doesn't mean that they are leaving out the important parts of the last installment. Back when there were only two films, and DoS was There and Back Again, they would have included the ending of the story since the ending occurred in what is now DoS. So, even though so many sites are reporting that it is only featuring AUJ and DoS, I believe it will have the important plot developments found in TABA. </p>

<p>Sean, i'm agree with you. I think that you lost a lot of time if you do a Videogame for Two movies and Later one for three, you lost a lot of time. If you only do 1 Videogame of 3 movies there are 15 or 18 levels but if you do another of two movies there are 10 or 12 levels and then you are doing the three movies Videogame you have to remake the other levels, but LEGO, Warner Bros and TT Games only want the money </p>

<p>And they are already making money from The LEGO Movie. If they are going to make money from two franchises, might as well just make a crossover instead of releasing a game a month after another. </p>