Lord of the Rings Online Review

Pros…
1: Ability to create a character and give him or her a unique name and customize their looks.
2: Ability to select a class. Warning! Some classes can only be purchased from the Turbine Shop!
3: Ability to level up your character, equip him or her with weapons, armor, and other tools.
4: Ability to learn how to ride a horse and a swift travel system which uses horses. Warning! Learning how to ride a horse requires purchase of the Riding Skill via the Turbine Shop, which uses real money.
5: Ability to learn how to craft and a unique system for crafting in the game with it’s own levels and a guild.
6: The chance to win a free present every day, provided you connect to the game and claim your gift.
7: Very nice graphics with good customization options!

Cons…
1: Leveling up takes a VERY long time after you reach Level 15 and is mainly done by completing quests or killing monsters. The former allows for slightly faster exp gain, although be prepared for a huge grind fest!
2: Bearing the above in mind, beware as there is no way to earn instant experience. The only way to gain bonus experience (Which is gained as you gain experience the normal way) is through EXP Tomes which are either bought or if you’re lucky, won as a prize from quest completion or another means of gaining such items.
3: When playing this game, you will spend a good portion of your time traveling across Middle Earth from place to place in search of quest NPC’s and locations. In addition to this, traveling takes a while, even when riding a horse. Use caution when traveling to quest NPC’s and/or locations as you will often have to navigate your way past aggressive monster groups called Mobs in the terms of this game. If you find yourself unable to make your way past safely, you will have to battle your way through!
4: Some quests are tedious or impossible to complete in some cases. For example: If you kill a boss monster before completing a quest where they must be killed, this results in the quest becoming impossible to complete! Another example: You may have to carry a certain item (Such as a bucket of water) from one location to another, which becomes a tedious task as you are unable to battle monster mobs and you are likely to encounter at least one!! In addition to this, there are some quests which require a fellowship or 2 or more players to complete!! -_-
5: Crafting can also be a tedious chore as most of the crafting professions require the player to trade resources they need with another player in order to finish crafting certain items. There are also several different levels of crafting for each tier (Novice, Expert, and so on).
6: Since leveling up takes forever, nearly all monsters are aggressive to the player! And those which are not aggressive are located in areas the player no longer benefits from unless he or she decides to go back there to do some crafting for a lower tier.
7: The music on the game does not appeal to me at all!
8: Speaking of which, many of the sounds on the game do not appeal to me either and are VERY annoying to listen to! But in turn, if one turns all the sounds down, they will not be able to hear a monster attacking them and will have to rely on their eyes to see their character taking hits.
9: Since most monsters are aggressive and are often found in groups, it is likely a new player will die at least once…Especially if they are not careful and they are attempting to complete a quest above their level or going to a potentially dangerous location.
10: Some quests (And monsters) do not offer much experience at all (If any) after a certain point in the game, which makes completing such quests pretty much useless.
11: Some areas in the game (Such as the Old Forest) are very hard to navigate across and getting lost in such places is easy, which is annoying. -_-
12: Many of the features in the game (Such as customer support, additional Hobbit Presents, locations, classes, inventory space, and currency space) are only available to players who have either purchased some Turbine Points using real money or have obtained a VIP Membership, which involves a monthly fee of at least 10 dollars.

Overall, this game is only for people who have to much time on their hands and who don’t mind playing a game where they will have to grind (Work) hard to reach max level (Which has recently gone up from 85 to 95) and who have a decent number of other friends who also play the game every day. It is also for people who have a LOT of patience and also nerves of steel sometimes. My rating for this game is a 3 out of 10 for the reasons listed above.

there is 9 classes 4 races you can pick both genders for all of them but them you can only be male…

the game graphics are epic and Beautiful
7 classes are free the other ones you have to buy with turbine points the classes are the # 1 Burglar # 2 Captain
# 3 Champion # 4 Guardian # 5 Hunter # 6 Lore-master # 7 Minstrel and # 8 Rune-keeper and # 9 Warden you have to pay for

if you like MMORPGS and you have a computer that can handle this game you should play it

Graphics & Sound: The graphics are the best I have seen in any MMO. Although I hate WOW with a passion, even before I heard of LOTRO, I will say in fairness that they don’t mean for their grapchics to be top-notch. It’s more of a style thing for them. However, the graphics of LOTRO are just fantastic. The water actually looks real (at high setting of course) and you can actually see flies buzzing around corpses of dead animals when you go into hunting lodges. The sound is also good. The tone and volume change when you turn away from the source, although at low sound settings the transition sounds choppy. It’s cool nonetheless.

Races: LOTRO did a good job keeping true to ther free races of Middle Earth. They don’t have dwarf women, but that’s about it. Very good and realstic customization for each race as well. Yiu have a different skin, hair, and eye color specturm depending on where your character’s origin is. Nice hairstyles, as well.

Classes: there are nine classes, each of which can be found in Tolkien’s works. They did a good job with not including Wizard or Ranger as a class.

Perhaps at a later time I will review the gameplay, but I have to do a little more research first. Thanks!

When you first start downloading the game, and get it set up (could take around 3-4 hours), then you’re ready to play. When the game starts up and you get past the loading screens (which will keep you visibly entertained until it fully loads, or if you wish to skip them to get right into-game faster. Just press “ESC”). When you get to the character customization screen, you have four race options (Elf, Man, Dwarf, Hobbit). And 9 different class options ( Burglar, Captain, Champion, Guardian, Hunter, Lore-master, Ministrel, Rune-keeper, and Warden). They all serve different roles in-game, but can adept to most situations. For instance the “Guardian and Warden, are the primary “Tankers” of the game, which basically means that they can take high amounts of damage with little/none HP lost. While the primary role is ” AoE, or Area of Effect, is a spell or skill that affects more than one target in a certain area”. Whilst the “Hunter, Champion, Captain, And Rune-keeper’s” primary role is “DPS or Damage per Second is the calculated number that takes the average of the min and max damage on a weapon, the weapon Speed, and your own strength or other attributes that effect damage or speed. It will take all of these and calculate a balanced result. While the the “Lore-master’s primary role is “Crowd control: Crowd Control refers to spells and abilities which limit your foe’s ability to fight or that reduce the number of foes that a fellowship must fight at once. This may include:
Dazes (aka Mesmerize or Mez) — skills which prevent an enemy from moving, attacking, or using any skills, so long as the enemy does not take damage.
Fears — skills which send an enemy running, preventing skill usage.
Roots — skills which stop an enemy in place, but do not prevent the enemy from using ranged/tactical skills.
Snares/Slows — skills which slow an enemy’s movement or increase the induction time for skills.
Stuns — skills which prevent an enemy from moving, attacking, or using any skills.” and “Debuffer: A Debuff is a detrimental condition that is applied to an enemy. Debuffs may have any number of effects, to include reduced armor value, DoT’s, reduced mitigation’s to specific kinds of damage, and crowd-control effects.” While the “Minstrel’s” primary role is “Healing” , “Group heals”, And “Buffs: A buff is a beneficial condition that is applied to a character or an ally. Buffs may have any number of effects, to include increased damage output, more Morale, faster Morale/Power recovery, increased Critical/Devastating hit chance, or even resurrection after being defeated”.
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And that concludes my review, I hope that you will find it informative and helpful 🙂

LVL 20 ELF LORE-MASTER

P.S.

setTheory:
1) Are your drivers up to date?! If you want to get the full potential out of your hardware, especially, your graphics card. Keep your drivers updated!!! You should be able to find them on your manufacturers website. Often manufacturers do not keep them up to date. You have a couple other options: a) Google your drivers for your make and model of computer OR b) Use a tool similar to DriverMax. It hunts down the most appropriate and updated drivers for your system.

2) Do you have the latest DirectX install?

3) Windows update… yes… do you have SP2 for Vista?! If you don’t have SP2… GET IT.

4) Google different troubleshooting forums and read up on your system model, your graphics card, Vista… if these suggestions did not work. You can get it going on Vista, I have faith. It’s worth taking the time to figure out… It’s an fun game… and did I mention the graphics are AMAZING!!!

I hope this helps someone, if not >setTheoryone man’s< opinions… because, at the end of the day we all fill our free time with what makes us happiest. …and >I< will be adding this beautifully made game to my list of things to do. I’ve been searching for a game like this for far too long… I’ve found it. w00t!
Cheers,
LikeWise

Cons: The game is very frustrating if you don’t spend money on it. Their is a lot of lag. It doesn’t do anything particularly original.

I was told originally that lotro had standards for game-play… that when the game first started out, it took 5 gold and level 35 just to buy a horse… then they started f2p, with optional content expansion packs from turbine points that you purchase in bundles (my route), AS WELL AS exp buffs for real money… Then came the ability to buy gold with real money… then, just yesterday, a new interface with even more optional “turbine point” purchases emerged, such as ingredient packs for crafting. what this boiles down to is ONE CAN ALMOST BUY A PRE-LOADED TOON NOW, if you’re willing to dish out a few $50s.. This is an UNFAIR ADVANTAGE to those with the $$$. I say STEAR CLEAR OF LOTRO, and invest in a game with a sence of fareness.

I now have the max 9 toons, all of the different classes. Each one is very different from the others, and give the versatility that makes this MMO the best.

The graphics are so good that I have found times when I would just sit around fishing and pan the camera around to just take in the beauty, not to mention fish in different places. Great flow to the graphics, and I have a low end graphics card on a laptop, so folks complaining about graphics problems must be doing something wrong on the user side.

The Crafting side is great as it integrated other crafts into what you craft on some items. What you need in the game can and usually must be crafted by other toons.

PvP may not be the WOW style (thank God), but there is one area seperate from the rest of the world which is perfect really. Those that want it, have it. Those who don’t, don’t have to deal with it. It’s the Ettenmoors, and the map is huge. The play is rather challenging, and designed well for those that are PvP players.

The epic line is awesome as it allows you the feel that what you do directly effects the “Fellowship of the Ring”. This is a great part of the game as you deal with all the members of the “Fellowship”. It integrates Tolkien’s work into your game.

The game world is huge, and growing. Very versatile, and once in an area, very easy to move around the world quickly, at a cost.

Turbine is steadily updating and improving an already awesome game. That shows progress. New stuff all the time.

Class variations, and differences really help since each class has a specific job in a fellowship, and they are versatile in the fact that they can take up the slack if a class isn’t present, but not fully do that job. Makes each class a definite need, and gives group make-up a challenge if you try an abnormal combination.

Overall, and yes, with the constant LOTRO v WOW debate, LOTRO is by far the best MMO out there.

WOW, of course, still has an edge only due to having far more advertisement, but how funny is it that LOTRO hardly ever advertises, and yet threatens the crown WOW supposedly holds. LOTRO’s Free to Play pulled lots of WOW players, and as expected, most went back because the entire LOTRO world isn’t open to Free to Play. Do they expect everything that we pay to now be free to them? Free to play is only to allow you a good taste of the game to where you will enjoy it enough to buy a sub.

Either way it’s looked at, Graphics, gameplay, community, epics storyline, crafting system, content. LOTRO has it all, and there are no others that can compare.

Character creation was pretty average, on par with almost every other MMO on the market. I do like the Hobbit and Dwarf models, but I found the human and Elf ones pretty standard. I don’t really have anything else to say about this part of the game. About the same as WoW, and pretty much all other MMO’s, but nowhere near as good as Aion’s. 6/10

The classes were pretty good, and they seemed very balanced from what I played. I was glad to see that there were none of the standard classes, like warriors, mages, priests etc. etc. The first class I tried out was Warden, as they sounded like Paladins, and that’s my favorite class. I liked the feel of the character from the start, and I was at home with familiar spells and abilities. The next class I tried was a Captain. That was pretty good as well. Overall, they all seemed fairly easy to level with, and they were a refreshing break from the standard classes. 9/10

The graphics were good. I won’t rave about them like some others do, but they were better than most MMO’s. I usually prefer darker graphics, such as the graphics Warhammer Online had, but these fit Middle-Earth very well, and there’s nothing to complain about. 9/10

The soundtrack for LOTRO was good. Some of the pieces, such as Tom Bombadil’s, were amazing. Some, however, weren’t as great. I suppose the same is true for everything, but I would have loved for every song to be as good as the aforementioned song. It may just be that I’m used to hearing Concerning Hobbits every time I see the shire, Edoras every time I see Rohan, and The Siege of Gondor every time a big battle occures, but it wasn’t stunning. Still though, it was a worthy addition to the game, and I’m very pleased with what they came up with. 9/10

One of the things I was most pleased about was the immense amount of solo content in the game. I’m really a solo player, both in real life and in games. I group when I get to the highest level and need to raid, or if I’m doing PvP, but usually I’m alone when I play, unless I’m having a LAN party. Most of the quests in LOTRO are easily solo-able, and I barely needed to group at all. 10/10

Speaking of groups, the community LOTRO is great. Most players seemed mature, and most of them were willing to help me learn the ropes of the game. When I had to group, I actually didn’t mind doing so. Usually when I’m playing WoW or a game like that, I have to literally explain to each member of my group how to play the role they’re filling. I didn’t have to do that once in Lord of the Rings Online. 9/10

When I started the game, I really didn’t like the UI. After a few hours, I still didn’t like it, but I could tolerate it. The elements looked very unfinished, and not very well thought out. Seeing as you spend a lot of time looking at the UI, I think it should be one of the most polished parts of the game. I do, however, like having the ability to modify it, and I’m running a custom UI right now. 6/10

The storyline. Now, I’m not really a role-player when it comes to video games, but I do love it if a game has a great storyline, and it really completes a game for me (Plus, it inspires my writing and drawing!). The storyline in LOTRO is fantastic. I understand that this is the main attraction of the game for many people, and boy, did Turbine deliver. I actually started reading the quest text, and paying attention to what NPC’s said. The best thing was that it didn’t change anything about the Lord of the Rings world, or contradict things that Tolkien wrote, but rather it added to it. Granted, the writing isn’t as good as J.R.R. Tolkien’s, but it’s still pretty damn good. As an avid reader of Tolkien books, this was very important to me. 10/10

The PvP in the game was good. I must admit that I was skeptical about it when I first read about Monster Play, but Turbine really pulled it off. I’m writing this paragraph last, so I’m fairly exhausted and can’t really spare myself the time to explain Monster Play, but basically it’s where you create a high level monster character and battle other players in a different world. I wish PvP had been completely integrated into the game, but as that’s not what the game is about, this is a good alternative. PvP is one of the most important elements of a game to me, but seeing as how good the rest of LOTRO is, I was fine with Monster Play. 8/10

The maps in LOTRO were also very good, so much so that I thought they deserved their own little paragraph. In many new MMO’s, the maps get neglected. I believe this is a mistake. Blizzard did a good job with the WoW maps, and Mythic did a fair job with the Warhammer Online maps, but in most MMO’s, the maps are treated simply as a way of seeing where things are. I disagree with this. Maps should illustrate the world around the character, and I feel they help give a new level of depth to the world. Tolkien’s maps are better, but Turbine’s one’s aren’t bad. They could do with a little more decoration, but overall, they’re great. 9.5/10
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As you can see from the generally high scores I gave it, Lord of the Rings Online is a great buy. For anyone who loves the Lord of the Rings books, and even the movies, this is a must-try. For anyone else, casual gamers, hardcore gamers and especially role-players, I’d give it a try. Overall, LOTRO is an amazing MMO and it’s definitely a close contender to the no. 1 spot. If Turbine fix the UI, add more character customization (play Aion, and copy their system), and integrate PvP into the entire world, I’d definitely consider it the best MMO out.

Total Score:
85.5/100

But then I got out of starting zone, and everything changed. First of all, it is Tolkien’s world, so it has a deep logic and a realism of its own. Unlike that other game where you soon realize they keep changing the story just to put new “cool” things for kids in. Plus, LOTRO is so well written, I actually read most of the quest stories: they are great, and involving. There is a good balance of solo and group quests, and it is easy to find people to do the group ones.

Graphics are a lot better than most other games. They depict a beautiful world, realistic, not cartoonish at all. Ambiance sucks you in… like a guildmate said, “wandering Old Forest at night is the first time I feel scared in a MMO”

Professions are more logical, and fun, than in wow. Until now (lvl 30) items made by players are superior to world ones, drop or quest reward. And in general, items look great. Far better than in… well you know where.

The classes are incredibly well balanced. It is fairly easy to lvl with any of them. They are original, and fun. No typical wizards and priests here. Let me give you a run of them:
Champion: melee DPS, heavy armor, secondary tank, powerfull skills depend on rage building, specialy good in AOE.
Guardian: Tank, heavy armor, powerfull damage skills depend on reactions (blocking / evading), can solo pretty well.
Warden: Tank, medium armor, builds a diverse collection of Gambits (combos), capable of healing himself and doing good dps.
Burglar: Stealthed dps, but also great debuffer, and starter of Fellowship Maneuvers (group combos)
Hunter: more typical ranged dps with some cool aditions
Lore-master: Crowd controller, secondary healer, pet master, debuffer. Cloth class.
Captain: Heavy armored melee, jack-of-all-trades, buffer.
Minstrel: You heal and do damage… by making music! Main healer, very good solo, buffer. Medium armor.
Rune keeper: Ranged magic dps (awesome dps) and secondary healer. As you attack more, your attacks get more powerful, but you lose ability to heal, and vice-versa. The damage-healing meter drops fast when out of combat, allowing you a change of strategy. Cloth class. My main is a RK.

One more thing: very few kiddos. Overall, population seems more mature, without the hypnotizing stupidity of some game’s chat, nor the drama. My guild is full of 25+ years old people.

And… oh well. It is not pvp oriented. Only ways to pvp, are duel or monster play. In monster play, you create a lvl 60 evil character and go battle lvl 40+ players in one world zone called The Ettenmoors.

What more can I say? I’m having lots of fun with LOTRO, and feeling in love with a game for the 1st time in years. This is a quality game, not fast food for the brain.

But then again, it all depends on tastes.

As far as MMORPGs go, this one is right up there with the best of them. It has modern graphics, a decent combat system, a fairly good crafting system, auction house, player and guild housing, a massive world that gets bigger with every expansion, and more quests than you can hope to complete on any one character. It will keep you occupied for a long time.

It’s not perfect by any means, no game is, but compared to any other MMO offering on the market currently, including the almighty WoW, it’s very good. I’d rate it in the top 3.

Anyway it is a horrible WoW copy, played for 15 mins, got bored and erased it.

“What the heck is this?”

After a while I got tired of WoW (I am a big fan of all blizzards games too, hell, I still host wc3 games on BNet, and D3 is gonna blow us away!) because it just didnt grab me.

So I went on a quest for a new MMO, and went back to GameStop. I asked my Game Guru (Just some dude at GameStop who knows a lot about all the new games) if he had any recommendations for any good MMO’s? Of course the first thing he said was WoW, then LotRO, then Guild wars, yadda yadda (I had stopped listening)

Lord of the Rings…I have always been a huge fan (I own the first print of The Hobbit still!) so I bought it.

So far its has been great. Great graphics, but still nice if you have to tune it down a bit. Some character animations are sketchy, it could be my computer, or it could be done on purpose to make the game run faster, I dont know. I love the towns, its funny to watch some guy sharpen a sword or dip hot metal into a barrel of water, and I can safely say I have met a baggins!

I havent played very long however, so Ill re-review in a few weeks.

I wrote a review for this game about 2 years ago now. As I recall I was one of the first to play it. I certainly gave enough detail to make it obvious I had played lotro before I ever reviewed it- in fact that was my whole argument, that people shouldn’t review it in the first few days.
Anyway, I have used lotro again since that time. I used a different class etc etc, but I can’t help but stand by my original argument.
Whilst Kazalor is correct about the positively astounding plethora of things to do at lvl 50 (can you say sarcasm?) he has completely missed the point I was making. Lotro does a fantastic job of playing it safe. The game brings nothign enw to the mmo genre. it doesn’t contain a staggeringly original storyline, because it revolves around a world that already exists. It pretty much secured a fanbase before it even launched by associating itself with lord of the rings, and as such, it has completely failed to push any boundaries whatsoever.
That’s fine for some people! Not everyone who uses an mmo want to see something completely different. Or, for instance if lotro is your first mmo, you’re probably going to think it’s pretty damn spunky!

Either way, that’s the point I was trying (/failing) to make when I reviewed lotro a couple of years ago (take a look, if you want, it’s just a few posts down). Whilst some people will adore lotro because of the middle earth-ness or the tolkien-ness, other will find the game very boring- a repeat of most other middle-line MMOs (which is at least part of the reason so many people compare it to WoW… ignoring the obvious interface similarities of course ;])

There are a heap of great features in this game like WoW and Guild Wars it has a great way for players to like the sounds they put while adding in instruments for players to play like the banjo and to create there own tune.

The graphics are one of the best things about the game which get people attracted to the game. The graphics to me are one of the best graphics which make the environmental part of the game look amazing.

The game can get a bit laggy at some points but which now Turbine has recovered well and rarely ever lags unless I’m multitasking it also will depend o the computer you might have which will help o have a high spec one.

The gameplay is great to which will vary from which lord of the rings online you buy. I just loved the quest and great matching storyline to the books with the gameplay especially in Mines of Moria which ll of the games do well to keep with the stories.

The character creation is great feature which most MMO’s do alright with as you have seen with games like WoW and Guild Wars. There are 9 different classes 4 different races which all are very cool races which of one the elf was my favorite especially being a hunter with one.

All in the game is ownage and you’ll never regret yes you might have to pay for it but its worth it as every minute by minute passes by keeping you busy and and having a great experience with the game.

Gameplay: The gameplay is very standard to the MMO format. Camera angles can be switched between first person and third person options. The main storyline is set up as a series of books, which feature quests called chapters. The story is very enjoyable as your character is actually involved and recognised in them. Quests are very fun to do with friends and solo. Instances are well laid and well designed with good bosses. The first expansion, Mines of Moria, has already been released which contains a lot of content. Characters can obtain titles and traits by completing deeds. Deeds are earned in each area of the game, by killing a specific amount of monsters, using a certain ability a set number of times and many other ways. Titles add a new layer of customisation to the game by adding additional information to your name. Traits give characters different bonuses or abilities. Any trait combination can be equiped as long as they have enough trait slots which depends on their level. In the crafting side of the game, characters cannot choose a single profession, but they choose a vocation which is composed of three professions. Most vocations include a gathering profession and two crafting professions that complement each other. It is the best crafting system I have ever seen in any MMO. When characters reach level 5 they can learn to play musical insruments. The instrument can be played in real time on three octaves and abc notation, with the music being broadcast to nearby players. PvP is in the form of PvMP (Players vs Monster Player). Monster Play is unlocked when a character reaches level 10; players can then play a level 60 monster. PvMP is based in the Ettenmoors where players fight for the control of various keeps. PvMP is very well balanced and the classes are also well balanced. 10/10

Graphics: The graphics are very good looking. They make the environment stand out, which is what I usually say. Nothing else, it is just simply amazing. 9/10

Community: One of the best I have seen in any MMORPG. Most of them are all LOTR fans, very friendly and the game has a very warm welcoming atmosphere. 10/10

Difficulty: A bit hard to get started out in this game but you will get the hang of it after 30 mins. Quests are simple and soloable just the way I like it. 8/10

Overall: 9/10

Graphics are one of the best out of every mmorpg.
Crafting is excellent much better then wow or any other game
Gameplay is pretty good quick and not much lag(for me)
this is only from the demo so dont get angry at me but it is still a vey good game

I’ve got to say my first impression of the graphics was …mhmm. Yes I have seen graphics similar to this before.. Guild wars and lineage 2 operate on the same platform however I did see some signifigant pixel cuts (choppyness) throughout the character models. Even on its highest settings.

I really havent explored the community as distinct as I should have to review it but the game just doesnt ‘do’ it for me. So I’ll leave the community out of the review completely.

Graphics 72.4355%
Sound 66.5656%
Innovation 70%
Customer service 70%
Idea 81.5454%

Overall 74.454% – Would I reccomend this game? Possibly.. there are games that will flatten it in the near future and it would probably be wise to just wait for them.. however for a hardcore LoTR fan – Go for it.

I miss the pvp otherwise its Great!
(WOW STINKS)

Nothing even comes close imo.

May there be a light in all dark places, where all other lights go out- Lady Galadriel, Fellowship Of The Ring

I’ve played this game for about 2 months now, and I’m preparing to leave it tbh. At first, I wasn’t too impressed, because the intro was very dull. To be fair, it was misleadingly so. The gameplay is very good; the music/sounds are one of the ebst htings about the game. You can buy intruments and actually play them in-game. I’m actually going to switch to WOW which I’ve never played before. I’m just bored really

I understand why people really like this game, I do honestly, but I think perhaps they need to leave more time before they review.

I think this game relies far too much on the fact that it’s LORD OF THE RINGS ONLINE OMG!! AS IN YOU CAN GO IN THE SHIRE!! Yeah, that’s great for a while, but the novelty wears off! Of course it does, that’s what novelty does afterall. Once it has though, you’re left with something that isn’t very gripping. Once you asccept that you’re in middle earth, you find there isn’t a huge amount to do. You quest, you hunt, you do instances… you hunt… you quest. I know that you ight think it’s all you do in other games as well, but there’s something different about this game. It can be a bit of a grind, but you upt up with it because you know once you reach level 30 you’ll be able to make it through the spiders and into rivendell yay… So what about when you’re not that interested in exploring Middle earth anymore?

What you’re left with is a skeleton of a game. There’s simply not enough to it. It’s very gripping and impresive for a while once you finish the intro, but after that it’s just plain boring in my opinion.

p.s. the customer support for this game is the one MAJOR thing that lets it down. It doesn’t run well with vista (though they might have fixed that now), and the support is just horrific really.

Much like World of Warcraft, its PvP system is horrid, but it’s an improvement in various ways. A must for all LOTR fans, and a very user friendly MMO experience to all.

Note: Any else seem to realize that all great MMORPGs fail terribly when it comes to PvP?

This game is cool, i bought it when it came out and i love it,
ratings:

Gameplay: 10-10
wonderfull, i love the part that you can make your own skills. the world is also great, just like i expected!

Graphics: 9-10
Great stuff, but you need a good computer to run this game.

Sound: 9-10
I totally love the music

kazalor

Lord of the Rings online. I’m a massive fan of the books and loved the movies. Hesitated buying this game but have had no regrets. Absolutely brilliant and immersed in Middle Earth. Seems to be alot of people comparing to WoW – not too fussed if it is better or worse as I think this game was worth every penny. I didn’t expect to be hooked on an MMORPG but it is pretty addictive once you get started. Top marks from myself. Running up an ever growing electricity bill but not to worry, can always get wasted in the Green Dragon.

bad side: bad customer support, rude GMs, bad crafting system, no lvl 30+ solo content

I think this game rules and will go very very far.

Each race starts in a different area and has different types of quests. I laughed out loud when I finally retrieved the chain from the brigands for the old man in the wood camp and he mentioned that the Sally he mourned who owned the chain was his hound dog. 🙂

Hobbits hunt for lost cows and ferry mail – unless they go for the heavier quests and start killing spiders and the “evil” dwarfs. Elves fight to clear out ruins overtaken by darkness while Dwarves fight against encampments of goblins (naturally). Its all a blast and I”m as hooked as anyone can be despite my age (52) and sex (female).

The combat system is slow and repetitive, while the quests are the same ones just with different wording. If I could see fun content in the future I would consider buying it and racing to the fun stuff in the “end-game”. But with the repetitve quests and the “push a button, wait 5 sec, shoot an arrow, wait 5 sec before u can cast, push a button, wait 5 sec, …” i cant see it being fun.

Go ahead and say, that is exactly what WoW is, but it is not at all. WoW is all about immidate response.

Last thig is that, below it is said that WoW is easy, grated the combat system is easy to learn, there is nothing easy about end game raids or High level content for people who like the game. Which is over 8 million by the way.

(just to say i am a tolkien fan and was awaiting the arival of this game, only to be let down severly. guess it is time to go back to WoW after my one hour of dissapointment)

now to the game! This game is awesome. Beta was insane. Almost everything was perfect!

Turbine have taken one of the richest worlds created and turned it into a kids fantasy themepark with as little imagination as possible.

Prepared to be held by the hand as you “explore” the tiny and linear “world”. This game plays like a module from Neverwinter Nights 2, without all the features that make NWN2 fun.

Unimaginative classes, few classes, practically zero character customization, horrible animation, mind-numbingly boring combat.

Harry Potter is deeper, darker and more complex than this piece of drivel.

Best regards people =D.