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There is a downloadable 10 day free trial available on the LOTRO website so you can try before you buy. I'm not a LOTRO fanboy but I did come into this game with a love of the Lord of the Rings books and movies. Really, unbelievably cheap for a Collector's Edition box game. Another plus to consider when choosing this MMO is the LOTRO players themselves. A couple of things to keep in mind if you are thinking about playing this game. The folks at Turbine have worked very hard both technically and creatively to make your stay in Middle Earth an exciting and rewarding experience. In fact, graphically and storywise everything in this Tolkien inspired world is fine.
When you purchase the Mines of Moria Collectors Edition you are getting the original game Shadows of Angmar, the Mines of Moria expansion, and a number of extras including a cloth map of Middle Earth, 3 helpful in-game items, and a soundtrack CD. The price of admission for this opportunity to experience first hand the hills and dales of the Shire and all of Middle Earth is a pittance. I haven't seen a review of this game lately so for anyone that might be wondering, I'm happy to report that Lord of the Rings Online is alive and well and it just keeps getting BETTER. Be ye a quester, jester, crafter, or bard there is something in this game for just about everyone to love and best of all Turbine continues to supply LOTRO players with new and tasty content. For those who care about the longevity of their MMOs I believe LOTRO has long legs with a long and exciting road ahead. I've found them to be quite a friendly and helpful fellowship of hobbits, elves, dwarves and humans. Take that Blizzard. One last thought, if you do play LOTRO and fall in love with the game like I did, Turbine offers a lifetime subscription option.
I've played a number of MMOs including the wildly popular and massively populated WOW but I want to reassure anyone who might be on the fence about whether or not to try LOTRO to "come on in" the water is fine. Also, the game world is large and quite visually stunning which requires some computing horsepower to run at its highest settings. Buy 2. Then you need only add the recently released award winning Siege of Mirkwood expansion to bring your game experience up to date. LOTRO was made to run on a host of differently configured PCs so for the best look and playabilty you will want to tweek the game's graphics settings to your own tastes.
This by far is best expansion of LOTRO. The replica of The One Ring put this over the top. The game is fast - paced and doesn't leave you hunting around to form groups to do the quests because most are soloable. Love the extra content in and out of game. Blows WOW (World of Warcraft) COMPLETELY away. LOTRO is the clear winner.
Yes this game is a great game knowing the excellent price of $10. But the only down side is if you don't have a beastly computer you can't really run this game at good settings. Other than that it is a great game you should try it if you want to do something new.
I was expecting a wonderfully realistic cloth map of Middle Earth, with great details, etc. Plus.I am in crafting HEAVEN. Loved that game but was more interested in crafting and questing and it just didn't offer enough of that. The other items include: "The Ring" - gold-toned, chain included, fairly realistic, inside a small black velvet pouch; a Music & Art Collection book, with cd and pictures - small, hard back, pretty cool; a Starter Guide - small, paper back, and a MUST for the first-timers; the actual game download cd's - 2 discs sturdily incased in a cd sized set of sleeves; a poster of Conquer The World Beneath - approximately 13" x 30" in size, featuring a very large Balrog with a tiny back view of Gandalph making his stand against the monster, very colorful and detailed; your Product Key with 3 Buddy Keys - so your friends can try it for 14 days free; a Quick Reference Card - a guide to all the keyboard and mouse commands; and finally, it all comes in a sturdy, texturized box to keep all your goodies together.
It's beautiful, detailed, and FULL of non-stop quests for every level character. I am a refugee from Lineage II. However, what I got was a map of the Moria area, not very detailed or collector item worthy. Then send them out to all of us who purchased the box.Thanks all for enduring my long review. The Lord of the Rings story is by far my favorite, along with The Hobbit, so, needless to say, this new world is a welcome escape for me.
Was very disappointed with it. It was a pretty satisfying buy on the whole. Then my Fiance introduced me to LOTRO.can I say WOW. Please, whomever put this collector box together, REDO the cloth map. Now for the but.In the Collector's Edition box you get several free items to make the role-playing experience even better.
It includes 2 maps - one is a poster, of Middle Earth, and the other is cloth. Make it of all Middle Earth with more detail and more realistic of a map from Middle Earth. So if you don't mind a mediocre cloth map, and especially if you've never played the game, BUY IT.
Its called /browse. These zones were supposed to be FREE, now they charge subscribers for em and sell them like expansions. The other, and vastly more important reason is.There is this new command they slipped into their product this summer on the down low, as a way to help people who couldn't run windowed or task out. Conan was so laggy, I couldn't even keep logged in. But I can see it coming. They will get the subscriber with a monthly fee, a fee to purchase instances, and gear. I would avoid getting addicted to this Overpriced Bugfest, or you may find yourself HAVING to purchase their good gear to compete online in later levels and later quests, instead of questing for good gear. I know I didn't, I'm staying away from MMOs until they settle down into somekind of respectful game genre.
Spring, Summer and Fall of 09 had almost NO content. The game lacks creativity and new art. They haven't owned up to it, anywhere to my knowledge. Over there its no big thing to pay for pixels and miniscule items. I quit because I fear they will make LotRO F2P with micro credit card transactions.
This /browse command will become a micro credit credit card web transaction site, just like SOE's games. After putting almost 8months of flight time on all my LotRO:MoM toons combined and often playing late into the night with bloodshot eyes. If they can keep their subscription base. Sony the makers of many dead and old MMOs did the exact same thing during the Hoth rollout. They are advertising the release of their next zone on the rings journey to Mt Doom, Mirkwood.
My advice, avoid Sony MMOs and now add Turbine MMOs to that list. But I won't miss MMOing in a world that makes me BUY gear on a confusing popup site with my CC. It pains me to have had to quit. Its a definate profit change, for them. Not the same in the west. The Turbine developer likes Microtransactions.
The developers, if there are any anymore, do very little if anything. That was a bungled mess over there. I left SWG:Hoth when they tried to sell me the chance to buy a Hoth snowspeeders, purchasing pixels twice is bad. Microtransactions are often refered to as the the asian MMO model of selling you competitive good gear and quest time, instead of letting you roam free and find the best stuff out of their loot-a-matic.
Its anyones idea what you get in these boxes. At the sametime they turned DDO into a micro credit card transaction game, they put the /browse command in LotRO. One reason to avoid it. If ya want to aspire to become a second class virtual citizen with a bad RL credit record prepurchase Mirkwood.
Turbinen is forcing us to play an asian MMO in English, another words. Turbine is also the maker DDO. Ordinary play is free in the asian model, but the free areas and interactions are dull on the senses, eyesores instead of eyecandy. Knutor x-tank, x-kinleader, STO betatester
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