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Amazon Maximum Age: 20 Amazon Minimum Age: 144 Binding: DVD-ROM Brand: Turbine EAN: 0884299000046 ESRB Age Rating: Teen Feature: Live the Legend: Join the only massively multiplayer online game based on the extensive and beloved fantasy universe of J.R.R. Tolkien and adventure through renowned places like the Shire and Bree, and now Moria, and the dark heart of the Misty Mountains. Format: DVD-ROM Label: Turbine Manufacturer: Turbine Model: 884299000046 Platform: Windows XP Publisher: Turbine Release Date: 2008-11-17 Studio: Turbine
Features
Live the Legend: Join the only massively multiplayer online game based on the extensive and beloved fantasy universe of J.R.R. Tolkien and adventure through renowned places like the Shire and Bree, and now Moria, and the dark heart of the Misty Mountains. Reach level 60 with thousands of character customizations: 4 races, 9 classes, 10 professions, 7 vocations, + over 1,000 titles, skills and traits. Over 3,500 monsters & over 500 authentic landmarks in nearly 100 million square meters of Middle-earth! Explore 3 new regions & 12 expansive areas of Moria. New graphics technology brings this underground realm to life like never before, with stunning vistas crafted by the Dwarves of Khazad-dûm. Delve deeper into the darkness. Design and create legendary items as renown as Bilbo’s Sting! Your hero’s gear will evolve and grow in power along with you, leading to truly unique end-game items! Fight for the dark side with monster play, the revolutionary monster vs. player (PvMP) combat feature, now with 5 more ranks, Artifact Control, and a live online leader board to showcase your achievements.
Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria (w/sweeps) PC
Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating: Summary: ridalj Comment: Have enjoyed Lord of the Rings online for over a year now. The expansion is amazing and the sights are breathtaking. What a blast! Customer Rating: Summary: Mines of Moria is Exceptional Comment: Great for casual and hardcore alike. Gorgeous environments, tons of things to do and see. Great quests and first rate core story line. LOTRO:MOM offers probably the best MMORPG experience to date.
Must buy.
Five stars.
***** Customer Rating: Summary: Outstanding Game for Casual Players Comment: I've been playing LOTRO since beta testing. In the many online games I've played in the past the first expansion was usually my cue to quit the game. Such expansions invariably cater to the hard-core gamers and mega-guilds, and usually tip the balance of power so far in their direction that a casual player like me just couldn't keep up.
Invariably that is, until now. Though the overwhelming bulk of the Moria expansion is meant for levels 50+ it IS easily possible for a player of the appropriate level to go through the quests solo. An adult with a full-time job can come home at night, log in for an hour and actually have some fun. I've never seen an online RPG do that before, and it's a refreshing change.
Gameplay itself is top-notch. The environments are gorgeous and faithfully rendered from Tolkein's descriptions. This game also has, on average, the most courteous and least "in your face" player community I've yet been exposed to. Highly reccommended. Customer Rating: Summary: Rekindling the sense of adventure in an MMO Comment: The technology is finally advanced enough, and Turbine's game design, writing, and quality control are finally good enough to adequately celebrate the deepest fantasy story of all time in The Lord of the Rings Online, and more specifically in this new expansion, the Mines of Moria.
Your story in Middle Earth is in support of the Fellowship's: You choose your tasks, selected from a wide array of things that need to be done to enable the Fellowship's quest to take the One Ring to the Crack of Doom, where at last its insupportable Evil can be destroyed.
Characters, just as in all MMO fantasy worlds, have basic stats that define your characters' qualities and abilities, but then in addition each gains many various traits and virtues from the very act of adventuring. These further differentiate your character's abilities from those of other characters. In Mines of Moria this differentiation is furthered by the introduction of legendary weapons and class items, resulting in a constellation of possibilities open to the evolution of your alter-ego.
The graphics and lighting are superb, and the world design is magnificent. XP/DX9 as well as Vista 32 and 64/DX10 is solidly supported. The sound track in game, and also available in the Collector's edition, is a real treat for those who appreciate supportive, even impressionistic music.
The clientele you will be joining is by-and-large more mature-seeming than you normally find in these online worlds.
With the option of buying a lifetime subscription, and considering the hours of adventuring entertainment available, there is no more thrifty form of entertainment than Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria. Customer Rating: Summary: The Little Unknown MMO That Could.... Comment: Just wanted to add a quick review of this online game. Awesome, beautiful, extremely well thought-out, very polished. I tried this game during late beta and couldn't get past the "noobie" area ~ thought it was boring... Well I was in between games a few months ago and saw LOTRO had a 14 day free trial and gave it a second look. Again was bored during the beginning noobie section but I forced myself to play through it... sooo glad I did! This game really starts to shine at around level 10 and only gets better as you level-up.
I would say the player base is perhaps a little older than the average MMO and is top notch! I have asked questions in the /advice channel several times and have always got a respectful and helpful answer. Try that in EQ2/AoC and chances are you will get flamed =(
Some servers are more populated than others... I started (unbeknownst to me) on a newer, sparsly populated server and ended-up switching to another server after about a month. Just go to the forums and do a search to find the more populated servers.
I have played MANY MMO's over the past decade (showing my age a bit there ~ lol) Even met my Husband in one. To compare your MMO likes/dislikes with mine: my favorite MMO was DAoC. WOW just never appealed to me and is one of the few MMO's I have not tried. LOTRO is perhaps the closest thing to DAoC EXCEPT it's "RvR" is considerably different.
Anyway, there is a lot more to this game than meets the eye at first, give it enough time (and research on their forums) and you will probably not regret it. They add free (and worth while) content regularly.
