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Better than World Of Warcraft

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

After leaving World Of Warcraft after two and a half years, I was searching for a virtual world to escape. It needed to offer a more casual and less frantic pace to get to the top fast and less of a need to get all the best of gear for the "endgame" like WOW.I felt like I was spinning my wheels to be the best. Simply, I was in a word "burnt out" from all that. LOTRO offered a fresh start. The detailed world in LOTRO was it for me. In my opinion, it is in so many ways superior. First, the community is excellent. There are always players willing somewhere to help out new players. They even have a dedicated "Advice" chat for questions. The starting areas are simple and plain as they should be.Some of my old WOW friends that "try" this game in those early levels sometimes complain that it is so inferior to WOW. But they forget WOW has just as simple starting areas. So it is unfair to judge until experiencing all the things and places the complete game offer. And let me tell you, it offers plenty and then some. A place to enter a beloved and magical realm right out of a classical fantasy that will make every Lord Of the Rings fan feel like they are actually living in the world from the books.

LOTRO ROCKS!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

(Ed. note: My 13 yr. old son's review) Is it just me, or is this 2$ cheaper than standard edition here? Anyway, I'm a huge Tolkien fan that had been playing Runescape and WoW the past 3 years. Last year sometime in March I was in Netherlands and I saw the pre-order in a magazine. I HAD TO GET IT! Loved the game, the way they embedded the story into it was 10x better than any other RPG I've played so far, and free huge content updates every two months. Well, now I moved to USA and decided to get special edition, for the fact being only 17$ of course, but I'm wondering, does it still come with the month free playtime?

like wow only better in every way

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is very similar to wow only with lots of improvements. The graphics are better but its the attention to detail that really makes this game number one. Anything thats in the books is in this game. For example....in the books, when Frodo leaves the shire, they have Fatty Bolger pretend to be Frodo and live in Frodo's new house in Buckland and in the night the nazgul come after Fatty, thinking its frodo, and Fatty escapes but the cloak he was wearing gets torn off....so in the game when you go to Fatty's house hes there but the cloak that got torn off is lying on the ground outside the house. That attention to detail really impressed me.

Wonderful Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Great game for all ages. Families, kids and adults play from all over the world. Best quality in a game and always something new to explore. If you the boooks thenthe game is well worth playing.

Should have started this last year

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I wanted to pick up LOTRO at launch but hesitantly did not. After a while, I lost interest. Flash forward to one year later, and I am now playing this amazing game. The character classes are all very well implememted. If you love questing and exploring, then this is the game for you. PvPers, should probably stay away. With the release of book 13, Turbine has added hobbies the first one being fishing.
Oh and the fact that it is Tolkien's world is just icing on the cake.

Game is great fun but "Special Edition" (collector's edition) not worth the money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: April 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Let's get this out of the way first... "I love playing LOTRO". I enjoy it so much I decided to add a second account and thought I'd purchase the Special Edition assuming that the extra items would be worth the additional cost. I must say that I was very disappointed.

It is obvious that they (Midway) tried to copy WoW's Collector's Edition, which is a nice and worthwhile special edition, but Midway did it completely on the cheap.

The Map of Middle Earth that is included is all but useless and printed on very cheap lightweight paper.

The "exclusive in-game item" you get is only useful (+1 hope) at very low levels if at all and takes a full hour before it can be used again.

The soundtrack CD is a real pain! It includes the narration from the game's cut screens so you have to hit "skip" on you CD player almost every other track if you don't want to hear all the game narration over and over. Why didn't they just put the songs on CD like WoW did on their collector's edition? It would have been MUCH better.

The DVD on how the game was made is OK but nothing special.

The back of the box also says... "EXCLUSIVE! FULL COLOR SPECIAL EDITION MANUAL". Translation, it's the same paper manual you get in the regular game but some of the pictures are in color... woot! If you were thinking beautiful color hardback book like in WoW's collector's edition think again.

All in all great game, but don't bother to spend the extra money on a "Special Edition" copy of the game, just get the regular and have a great time.

Hopefully when Midway releases its next expansion later this year it will be more of a class act.

The Ultimate Alternative to World of Warcarft

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game was a blessing for me! i was growing tired of WoW but had tried many other MMOGs(massively multiplayer online games) but to no avail i was stuck in the realm of warcraft, though it seemingly had everything a fantasy RPG/social gamer could possibly want, there just seemed to be something missing. Thanks to Turbine(developer of LotRO) i have found that missing something! LotRO clears up all my old beefs with WoW. I now get regular almost scheduled free content updates to the game every two months, guaranteed to fix things if needed but always giving new things to do(two whole regions to explore with hundreds of quest have been added since launch), the new things added just seem better thought out than WoWs updates, high levels and low levels get new content and its not always new endgame content, we often get new factions as well as new deeds to enhance our characters. basically the updates touch the overall player base and not just the endgame and PvP crowd. Also my final WoW beef was that with its cartoony visuals and pop culture humor it was a little too immature, for me that is. This is not a problem with LotRO as it is set in Tolkiens mature themed world, where players still know how to goof off but can still feel immersed in a serious world, the balance of those two things is really quite nice. there are of course are many other things to love about LotRO and many things to love about WoW, both are amazing games, at the end of the day it is just a matter of preference. my reason for comparing LotRO to WoW is simply because as of right now WoW has the largest player base of any MMOG and i know that there are some players just like myself, itching for something else, and maybe they will find that something in LotRO just like i did. Hope to see you there!

Server name: Vilya

Characters name: Andalyn(main) and Varomir(alt)

A Must for Tolkien Fans

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've played Final Fantasy Online, WOW, and Tabula Rasa and am a big fan of the MMOs. If you like MMOs and are a JRR Tolkien fan, then this game is a must. The game content is very accurate to the Tolkien world and the attention to detail is amazing. You can also run this game on DX10 which makes the already awesome graphics look even better. The deeds and trait system makes the customization of characters more unique than other MMOs. Pretty easy to solo and there's some pretty cool epic quests that follow the story of the LOTR story. Give the 7-day trial a shot and you won't be disappointed.

Amazing Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

When I started playing MMORPG games the first game I heard of was of course World of Warcraft. When I finally started playing I realized that these cartoon graphics sucked. So when I heard of Lord of thee Rings Online I saw that it didn't have the cartoonish graphics I was amazed.Because most MMORPGs that I have played have cartoonish graphics. When I started playing the starting instance was a lot of fun. After that when I leveled up more there was an even distribution of thinngs unlocked over levels. I like the monster play aspect and even though you start at level 50 you still need to work to be as strong as the other level 50s'. This is probably one of the greatest MMORPGs to come out at this moment. Also even though it has only been a year since this was released it has almost double the amount of accounts created than World of Warcraft does, and World of Warcraft has been out for around 2 and a half years now.

The Lord of the Rings Online

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is a great game to get for the whole family. I bought 2 copies and play it with my wife. It makes for a fun and entertaining value to enjoy together.

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