A Few More Lord of The Rings Online Screenshots
The excellent graphics in Lord of The Rings Online continue to amaze and dazzle, as does the easy to use interface. I got into a pretty good fellowship a few weeks ago in Angmar and took a lot of these screenshots then. Again, the vicious Geico caveman dudes were everywhere.
This rogue Geico caveman was particularly bothersome. Our melee party members surrounded him, beat him down, and destroyed him.
A couple of hunters standing around outside the Fornost instance. Hunters (ranged fighters) continue to be pretty amazing damage dealers with their bows, second only to the champion class. They can also have crossbows, but most seem to prefer the longbows that these two have.
In the latest update, Turbine added significant weather effects which bring nice atmosphere to the world. Here is an open field in Bree during a rainstorm. Although size for size, LOTRO is still a smaller game world than WOW or FFXI, almost everywhere in the world is explorable. In other words, even though Azeroth is a lot bigger than Middle Earth, in Azeroth you could only run around in the trails and areas that allowed player movement. Not so in Middle Earth. Pretty much the entire world is explorable, and populated with tons of quests, animals. and mobs.
As I noted previously, Turbine has integrated as much of the Tolkien mythology into the game as possible, with sparing, but tasteful use of some of the principal characters in some of the more important quests. This is a glassy-eyed Frodo wandering around Rivendell at night. Perhaps he has been smoking a bit too much pipeweed.
By far, the most frustrating and toughest experience I have encountered so far is the group quest to defeat Ivar the Bloodhand. It took myself and several different parties about 12-15 times to finally finish him off. There were a lot of gory-looking “half-body” monsters protecting and healing him as well.
Another nasty boss we encountered deep into the Fornost instance.
This troll looks like a mix between Shrek and Fred Thompson. I was able to solo him easily with my level 42 guardian.
Here a group of players broke-out their lutes to play some tunes, which players in the game can compose themselves. Despite being subject to way too many listenings of “Stairway to Heaven” in-game I still think its cool that Turbine integrated this level of interactiveness into the world. Of course, one can do hundreds of other things in the game too, like farming, cooking, weapon-smithing, and alchemy. This early into the game, the crafting system and game economy still need some work. Still, its better than being subject to gold-farming spams in WOW all the time.
A group of adventurers standing around outside the Forsaken Inn looking for fellowships.
The Comments
beerorkid July 8, 2007 at 4:17pm
looks cool. A good thing about those type games is the updates and getting new stuff.