LOTR online

Rhysticgon · A-Source Staff Joined: Jun 25, 2005 Posts: 208

Anyone sign up for the open beta? or even preregister for the actual game or if youre one of those really eccentric ones: get a life time memebership for 200 dollars?

Im just wondering because I joined the open beta and was wondering if any of the pre-registerers or lifetime membership people have started playing it yet and whether or not its worth playing. (most say its just like wow but with lotr?)

ddogt432 · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:59 pm Post subject:

i played the closed beta a little bit a few months ago. havent really kept up, so i dont know what's changed. it was very clearly an mmo, but definately not WoW. it has your basic mmo elements (quests, xp, char specialization, etc.) and a very nice world. from what i've heard, the game is lisenced on the book materials, straight from tolkien's words. so if you're a fan of the original canon texts, here's to hoping they used the IP well.

gameplay wasn't too shabby. the controls were pretty intuitive and easy to use. the fights and actions leaved a bit to desire, though i suppose i'm just baised on WoW's super extravagent flare ^^.

graphically, i wasnt really blown away, but they were definately not subpar. the landscape and environment were very nicely rendered and the char models didn't hurt to look at either =P.
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