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This game is amazing!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Besides being well known, Lord of the Rings Online offers a great mix of quests surrounding the events of the movies/books. It has amazing graphics and all the people/places you expect to see will be there. It offers a chance to play solo as well as in a fellowship allowing you to get to know many different kinds of people. Or join a kinship and add to the fun!!! Crafting items also makes this game interesting. Also, the game is constantly getting better as Turbine updates and patches adding new content and features including one that is releasing end of October 2007...houses :). And if you are into pvp this game is also for you...it offers something a little different. You can spar your friends or you can go to an area to fight against monsters controlled by people. Or the flipside...go in as a monster and fight the humans. This game truly is one of the best games ever and all types of games would love it!!! A+++

Perhaps I am just partial to world of warcraft.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: May 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a very beautiful game, however, unless you are a die hard LOTR fan, you might get bored quite easily. There aren't as many classes or races to choose from, although there is an option known as "monster play" which offers something that WOW doesn't. A very good game, but it just didn't keep my attention for very long.

Why an online subscription?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 41
Date: April 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing this game for several days now, and I really don't see how it's worth paying fifty dollars plus a monthly subscription fee. Most of this game can easily be single player, and it only goes multiplayer in a few sections. It's like you pay to play by yourself ninety some percent of the time.

I bought a copy of GuildWars several days before the launch of this game, and I'm very new to both games. Honestly, I don't see much of a differenct between LOTRO and GuildWars. They both follow the same general mechanics: the characters do the same thing, and the player does the same things. You click on an enemy, and your character starts to attack the enemy. Most of the time, you just wait til the enemy dies, and you're not really, really applying much tactical skills in the process. Depending on how much armor you've picked up and how much strength your character has, you either wait a long time or you don't for your enemy to die. This game doesn't provide much creative or tactical challenges. It's click then wait, then collect items, then repeat.

The difference is GuildWars is free, while LOTRO requires payment. I strongly think that GuildWars will provide essentially the same level of fun, without your game being rendered useless when you don't pay the game writers to use their servers (which you don't really need, anyway). The online component of this game should either be free or much, much cheaper. This game is ESSENTIALLY GuildWars applied to new characters and a new map. That makes it severely overpriced.

One MMO to rule them all! An MMO with a great future.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: April 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've been in Beta since Oct '06. LOTRO has gone from a fairly decent game, I wasn't sure I would buy, to an MMO that delivers the perfect portrayal of Middle-Earth in the digital realm while still providing a fresh, engaging and immersive MMO world to explore and lose onself in. The Dev Team has proven (time and time again) that they care what their customers think. They have repeatedly listened to our (sometimes fervent) demands and have returned with exactly what we have asked for.

I'm giving this 4 out of 5 stars, because I still feel LOTRO needs to earn that extra star with some missing MMO components. Fishing, Player and Kinship Housing would, alone, earn that extra star. The community (until open beta) was incredible. Tons of helpful people, lots of interesting RP. Let's hope that carries over into the Live game.

No MMO producer can possibly give us the Middle-Earth of our childhood and our dreams. But I give much praise to Turbine for doing the absolute best anyone could do. I give them praise for taking much care with, and having a vast amount of passion for, a much sacred property.

Frodo Lives! Middle-Earth Lives! I am excited to lose many hours of sleep over the next couple of years.

Disappointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 15
Date: May 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game reminded me of a cross between Guild Wars' restricted pathing and EQ1's stick-figure arm motions. The best thing I can say about it was the initial character creation screens were very in depth. So in depth, that you can expect to skip it altogether and choose a preconfigured character to get started in a timely fashion the first time out. It had the feel of a single player game with good narration and limited social interaction. If you're like me, playing WoW while you wait for the next interesting MMO to come out, you can rest easy choosing to save your money on this one.

It's the Story

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Yes, it's a reasonably similar online game, but the story makes all the difference. The developers have done a good job at making you feel that you are truely an inhabitant of Middle Earth. The story is so engrossing that there are times where you gain a level, and you are surprised!

The graphics are fabulous, but be warned that you need upper end hardware to bring out the best.

Highly recommended

LotR:O is awesome!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: May 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you're tired of the WoW grind, this game is for you! It is less gear-centric, but just as quest-erific. PvMP (PvP) is a great system that sort of blends DaoC's RvR with WoW's BG's. The graphics are outstanding, and you don't need a high end system to run it. It is extremely polished and runs well.

LotR fans, you need to try this game out. Even if you've never played an MMO before, don't let that stop you from trying this game. It's very easy to pickup and learn no matter what level of gamer you are.

L.O.T.R. Online is well worth it!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: May 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have only been playing this game for about a month, but I am in love! I am a huge fan of the books, (and the movies) and this game comes in very close to them. I am also an onlone gamer, and this game is right up at the top of the best games I have played.
Some of the high points:
You get to interact with people from the books (Even if they are not in the movie, such as Tom Bombadil.)
You may play just fine by your self, but the game is actuly made to be fun playing with your friends. (unlike so many other "Fellowship" games!)
It is not to hard to start playing, with some games it takes you a few hours to learn how to move!
Some of the not-so-good points:
Unless you have good internet, it may play sloooww. . . . At home I have high speed, i try to play any where else with wirless, and it lags kinnda bad. Can still play, but not as fast.
As always, you will have dumb people. But find me an online RPG with out any dumb people, and I will give you alot of cash!

Just some of my thoughts on the best online RPG (not to mention L.O.T.R.) game I have found. Thanks for your time!
~JSenn

Nothing new

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: May 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

While the eviroments are quite lovely the animal and player models are ugly and their animation is choppy. Nothing new in terms of game play and the quest lines are full of the old running back and forth between quest givers before you are actually given a quest other than "Talk to So-n-so".

Just buy it!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I play all the MMORPG's that come out and I was not expecting this one to be all that great since I was not a huge Lord of the Rings fan. At least not to the degree that some people are. Wow, was I surprised! It's hard to describe the feeling playing this game, but it is made in such a way as to promote people playing with each other without forcing them to. People as a result are different than I have ever seen in a game like this. I play it every day when I get home and love it more all the time. The crafting system is different from others I have seen and all the players seem to really enjoy it. And yes, I played World of Warcraft as well. I have since cancelled my account there and play on this one currently. Give it a try, it's a whole different feeling that will surprise you.

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