Lord of the Rings Online released?
Eurogamer writes about the recent release.
Interesting Excerpts:
“Quest markers are provided in a clear form which means you’ll rarely, if ever, get confused about where you’re meant to be. This may be the first MMOG we’ve considered playing without a web browser open on a second screen to look up the quests we’re doing.”
“.. but by far the best of them is the Conjunctions system. Now, we confess that we’re still getting our heads around the potential of this system to some extent, but in effect it’s a timer-based system which allows you to fire off hugely powerful combo moves. When a Conjunction is available, a set of “gems” appear on your screen; click one and you’ll perform a Conjunction move, which may in turn open up further moves in the chain to other players.”
“Annoyingly, that also means we can’t talk about PvP today; the game is purely PvE (player versus enemy, meaning no inter-player combat) up until about level 40, at which point players can take part in a unique type of PvP battle in one large zone, the Ettenmoors. This works by allowing other players to temporarily don the form of famous monsters from the Lord of the Rings universe - which you can do from level 10, although of course, that’s not much use if there’s nobody to fight against yet.”
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qC1UYnJuFsY
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yZmLKCoWe3A
Sounds interesting. Anyone try it yet?