Lord of the Rings Online - The Shire

Published 4 January, 2007 Duration 1:11

An EG exclusive, a first look at the lush fields of the shire. Looking set for its spring release.

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  • richardiox #1 5 years ago

    Desolate

  • McP #2 5 years ago

    The villagers look like they're having fun skating.

  • Xypher #3 5 years ago

    They really should focus on the epic scale MMO's (and the movies) "usually" have. The whole gno... i mean hobbits in there happy little village doesn't quite do it for me, but the ingame footage looked good.

  • MaxiSleep #4 5 years ago

    Graphically not better then Wow, but the animation quality looked quite poor.

    People often look at Wow screenshots and dont realise just how fluid it is. I have tried to play eq II, but the jerkyness of the animation and experience really put me off.

  • ZuluHero #5 5 years ago

    i like how easy wow is and i like the depth that EQ2 has. This looks very nice as well, but its hard to tell what this plays like from this video, so i guess the proof in the pudding, is in the eating...
    Edited by ZuluHero at 05/01/07 @ 08:46

  • Hamflank #6 5 years ago

    It does indeed look like the little Frodo's and Samwise's are floating around the village on a Hoverboard.

    Sure, the textures are clean and the poly count is quite high in comparison to WoW, but the horrid animation sucks the life out of it.

  • symmetry #7 5 years ago

    It is very pretty though, and quite reminiscent of the film.

  • rudedudejude #8 5 years ago

    I remember seeing previews of RF online, laughable as it was.

    Sorry Codemasters, but you're going to pull something pretty good out of the hat after your recent flops.

  • mrbandersnatch #9 5 years ago

    Ho hum.

    LOTR is of course an incredible franchise but in Turbines hands Im expecting a lightweight formuleric EQ/WoW clone which will probably be canned within 2 years at most. I mean..this is the company that made a turkey out of D&D....D&D FFS!!! It should really have been in the hands of a games rather than MMOG company since the later have proven that MMOG technical competence doesnt neccessarily translate to games design (Star Wars anyone?).



  • Macross #10 5 years ago

    damnit dont mention RF Online ¬¬ i wanted to like that game so very much, but it was so very bad....

  • Triku #11 5 years ago

    nothing special... looks like an alpha or very early beta...

  • T4RG4 #12 5 years ago

    Fairly pretty, but poor animation.