LOTRO - Lord of The Rings Online

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Lord of The Rings Online

   

The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar (commonly abbreviated to LOTRO, LotRO) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Microsoft Windows set in a fantasy universe based upon J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings. It takes place during the time period of The Lord of the Rings.

The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar was developed by Turbine, is subscription-based, and requires Internet access. It launched in Canada, the United States, Australia, Japan and Europe on April 24, 2007. In China, beta testing started in July 2007, and the game was released by the end of 2007. The first expansion pack, Mines of Moria, was released on November 17, 2008.

Gameplay

The game's milieu is based on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Turbine does not have rights to any other works in Tolkien's legendarium, such as The Silmarillion or The Children of Húrin.

Much of the gameplay is typical of the MMO format: The player controls a character avatar which can be moved around the game world and interacts with other players, non-player (computer-controlled) characters (or "NPCs") and other entities in the virtual world. Camera angles can be switched between first-person and third-person options. Players' characters are improved by gaining "levels". A character's level increases after it earns a set amount of experience points through the player versus environment (or "PvE") combat and storyline adventures. Characters' abilities are improved by increasing in level, but character skills must be purchased from specified NPCs after gaining a new level.

The main storyline (also known as the "Epic Quest Line") is presented as a series of "Books", which consist of series of quests called "Chapters". There were initially eight Books when the game was released, with new books added with each free content update.

Tolkien's Middle-earth as represented in The Lord of the Rings Online implements magic in a different manner than other MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft. There are only five "wizards" in the fictional world, none of which are player controlled. Instead, there are active skills which require "power" (the equivalent of magic points). Some skills behave like magic (like healing or throwing a burning ember at an enemy), but are based on "lore". In addition, objects and artifacts are used to create effects similar to magic.

Other features include a fast travel system and a detailed quest log with tracker and history.



NE1 got this game? :-)

[EliteTerm]

Lemmie guess.. P2P? (Pay to Play?)

[NeBizzenzuelleEne]

yep

[Wolfe]

I used to play...Totally ownz0r..Sadly I cant pay since I believe its not possible for country's that aren't USA or in Europe..Or the hell with it I dont get to understand that payment stuff..

[tiderman]

Lemmie guess.. P2P? (Pay to Play?)

Just like any MMORPG. 9.99 is worth it IMO. You get to smoke pipe-weed and play guitar.

[Niall]

I used to play, I have a level 43. :-)

When I was playing I hear mines of moria was coming out, I pre-ordered the special edition, by the time it came (I had pre-ordered months before it was released) I was no longer interested in playing it and had stopped quite some time ago. Complete waste of £50, I haven't even used the game inside it. :P

Why I stopped playing?

• My PC was terrible and since the game had very nice graphics I felt like I was doing the game injustice by playing it that way.
• It took to long to get people for a big quest. I used to wait like 1-2 hours to get people for one only to be called in for dinner in the middle of it, which was extremely annoying, it got me in a bad mood.

But if you have a good spec computer and know that you will be seldom interrupted then it's a very enjoyable game. It's also full of adults, every one in my clan/guild thingie was over 20. It's not like SA-MP where you are often provoked, for some reason you never get into arguments. And there is always something to do. And if someone ever says something offensive to you, which they hardly do, it's easy to just walk away, or block them. : )

One thing that annoyed me though in the game was that the NPC's(e.g. rangers) looked so cool and no matter hard I tried I could never look as good as them.

[Andy]

Good game, loved it, but I quit for some reason. Got to boring after playing for a long time.

[tiderman]

One thing that annoyed me though in the game was that the NPC's(e.g. rangers) looked so cool and no matter hard I tried I could never look as good as them.

I hear ya. My character look like utter shit. Different colored armor and a bear hat, lol. I'm just lvl 20 yet, though.

Just joined an rp kinship, too. Perrty cool with kinship house and all that. The ale is strong, I can't drink more than one or two times out of the keg without passing out and spawning in some lvl 60 area in moria..

[Wolfe]

I totally miss this game..too bad I cant get it to pay to play more ^^ had a lvl 15 Hunter..Friggin nice rp..Also my lvl 20 Dood..but he got fucked after I broke most of my items and had no money to fix and buy others..

[Jserg]

Nice graphics .et.c Boring a lot after 20 lvls


Stoped it because it was too boring