Lord of the Rings Online Impressions

The Non-Disclosure Agreement for the Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) beta test has been lifted, and with the game set for release soon it may be useful to you to peruse some hands-on previews of the title. Hexus.net offers A Day in the Life of a Hobbit, and Tobold's MMORPG blog has similar hobbit-related impressions. Tobold also has a comparison between LORTRO and World of Warcraft for those who might be thinking about making the jump. More hands-on info is available from Warcry, Kill Ten Rats, and Gamers With Jobs. Van Hemlock offers up a high level overview of the title, mentioning recent releases and pointing out the realities of Massive gaming: "How the Great Fantasy Epic Saga will stand the ravages thousands of petty powerlevelling smacktalkers all loitering about Rivendell bank, level one hobbit girls - dancing as naked as the game will allow, shouting ridiculous three-letter-acronyms and generally not getting into the spirit of the thing, remains to be seen. I expect Our People can crush even The Lord of the Rings beneath our metagaming heel without feeling too guilty."

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Dx 10.

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I for one am really looking forward to the release of this game. As it is due out in march, I am really hoping that it will take advantage of some DX10 goodness...hmm hang on...of course if it DOES take advantage of DX10 then it will be a VISTA only release.

So whats the dealio with that? DX10 and vista only? or will it be DX9 and XP/Vista. Or even MORE craaaazyyy; could it be released on both supporting platforms? DX10 and DX9 Vista AND XP...Imagine it.

One criticism of this game is that the range of monsters/mobs isn't too good.