Lord of the Rings: Shadows of Angmar

By mrmcblonde I could choose which quests I wanted and leave the ones I couldn’t be bothered with which suits my nature.  You can just run about exploring and/or killing monsters but that can get boring.  Most of the quests are either killing stuff, finding items or people or a combination of the two.  I foun...

By Lesley Smith MMOs tend to have dedicated fan bases and everyone has their favourite: Aion, City of Heroes, WoW, Guild Wars, Lord of the Rings Online ... the list goes on and on. Everyone has their own personal favourite or the hip one that everyone and their pet goldfish is currently engrossed in. For example...

By Chessack The fact is that by the time I got to level 40, I started to realize that almost all the content in LOTRO is grind-based. The Epic Quests are not, because they are story based, but you only do a few of those relative to all the non-story quests that are just grinds. Let’s look at the kinds of grind in...

By Chessack Clearly, the developers at Turbine set out to re-skin WOW with Middle-Earth. Assuming that was their goal, they succeeded admirably. And as you’ll be able to tell comparing the two reviews, I don’t like the stuff I hated about WOW any better in this game.  Their crafting system is laughable;...

By Syp In my growing rediscovery of Lord of the Rings Online — which is feeding my malnourished PvE soul in splendid ways — I bumped back into one of the most touted new features when the game released a couple years ago: the music system. In my growing rediscovery of Lord of the Rings Online — which is...

 - Intrepid explorers of Middle Earth and Lord of the Rings Online aficionados will enjoy reading Turbine's latest article about Zirakzigil. ... Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria review (PC) Boomtown all 2 news articles

By spinks Quick LOTRO update: I think that Lord of the Rings Online is one of those games that you either love or hate. They do some things brilliantly, awesomely, incredibly well … and others are painfully lacklustre. So how you feel about the game will depend very much on:

By Alex Taldren After some difficulty, I’ve rung in 2009 with my first video game review of the year.  This time, I invade the expansion to the popular MMO, Lord of the Rings Online.  You can read my official review over at CheatCC.com, but if you’re looking for something a bit shorter and more to-the-point, l...

The next fantasy game I play is in some ways similar to Chroncles of Spellborn - that is Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO). Also fantasty setting with with a beautiful environment and less exciting character models, lots of travel time and a solid backstory and lore. But LOTRO is more familiar...

 UK - When LOTRO first came out it was instantly compared to World of Warcraft, the best populated MMO on the market. While it did borrow a lot of things from WoW ... The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria Play.tm all 2 news articles

By Lindsey Phillips Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Patches

By Mike Fahey WESTWOOD, MA - January 7, 2008 - Turbine, Inc. announced today that The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™ has become the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) to support the Microsoft DirectX® 10 API and NVIDIA GeForce graphics processors for stunni...

By Zonk The circle is now complete. With Turbine's release of Lord of the Rings Online: The Shadows of Angmar (LOTRO), the Massively Mutliplayer game figuratively eats the tail of its originator in ouroboros-like fashion. Tolkien's work begat Dungeons and Dragons, the PC gaming market, CRPGs,...

By Kaonashi I've spent the past weeks traveling through Middle-Earth. Sometimes I wander around as a burly Dwarf, hacking and slashing my enemies with my trusty axe. Other times I'm a graceful Elf, swift and sure with her powerful bow. Recently I've been protecting my fellow Hobbitses in the Shire from...

By Radical So, I decided to pick up LOTRO seeing as I have been needing some MMO in my system, anyways, here are my feeling from the first day: LORD OF THE RINGS ONLINE Shadows of Angmar Day 1: Radical So, I decided to pick up LOTRO seeing as I have been needing some MMO in my system, anyways, here ar

Arrows have been nocked, swords have been drawn, and Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar has gone live. As I type this hundreds of new Hobbits are being created, along with thousands of elves with names like Llegolass, Regorass, Orlando, et cetera. Expect a handful of dwarves. People...

By Zonk The Beta has been going on for some time now, and for all intents and purposes Lord of the Rings Online has launched. Pre-order players will be able to move their characters to the live game when the title officially lights up on April 24th, and commentators on Massively Multiplayer games ha...