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Lord Of The Rings: Shadows Of Angmar Special Edition | 
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| From: Midway
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.95
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Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 2079
Format: Cd
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: role_playing_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Edition: Special
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 90089
UPC: 031719900893
EAN: 0031719900893
ASIN: B000NSI42K
Release Date: April 24, 2007
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| Features:
| • | The only MMO based on the extensive and beloved fantasy universe of J.R.R. Tolkien, and the first MMO to provide a compelling story behind players' actions | | • | Unique Combat and Advancement Systems -- game mechanics surpass skills and levels to include accomplishment, traits and titles to help you gain experience in a variety of ways | | • | Fight alone or with other players - Follow the storyline on your own or form a fellowship with other players for epic battles against creatures like Orcs, Wights, and even Balrogs | | • | Cinematic technology and an expansive, open world help further the storyline with movie-like sequences | | • | Epic challenges like the depths of the Great Barrow, the siege of Fornost and the battle to retake Weathertop |
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Product Description
The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar is an authentic recreation of Middle-Earth. In this massive multiplayer online game, you'll explore legendary lands & interact with famous characters like Gandalf and Aragorn. Create your own heroic story as the Fellowship embarks on their quest to destroy the One Ring. Defend the Free Peoples against Sauron's evil minion, the Nazgul Witch-King. Adventure solo or forge fellowships, battle hideous monsters and rise to fame in the most epic MMO ever launched. Collector's Edition contains: FREE subscription, 128-page manual, cloth map of Middle-Earth, digital art book, exclusive figurine, exclusive in-game items: "Cloak of the Peace Keeper" +2 Peace Morale Regen. Create items both legendary and mundane - Farm in the Shire or forge weapons and armor in Thorin's Halls; craft arms for the fight against the Dark Lord Sauron, or enjoy more peaceful activities like cooking and farming Meet and socialize with thousands of other players and fans of J.R.R. Tolkien's works -- chat & interact at the Prancing Pony in Bree, the Green Dragon Inn in the Shire, or any of the many other social centers throughout the land Experience hundreds of quests while you journey through Middle-Earth -- swim the Brandywine River or make your way through the mists of the Old Forest
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| Customer Reviews: Read 28 more reviews...
LOTRO game October 11, 2008
This is not or everyday MMO has a lot of things to have you do that just doesnt keep you doing mindless grining.
 A Really Pleasant Surprise September 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just want to say that, after years of playing WoW and Guild Wars, two games that I have greatly enjoyed playing, a friend invited me to try out the 14-day free trial offered by Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO). I was skeptical, as I had heard that LOTRO was a poorer imitation of WoW.
I have to say that LOTRO completely won me over after only a few days of playing. Why? Well, here are a few of the reasons.
LOTRO has:
--a beautifully realized world: the Shire feels just like the Shire, the Barrow Downs and Old Forest are just as you'd imagine them to be. Every detail, from grasses blowing, mists swirling, full moon rising, rain splattering, and on it goes is absolutely spot-on perfect.
--one of the warmest, friendliest, most helpful communities I have ever encountered in an MMO.
--group-forming tools that surpass those of WoW and Guild Wars both. Need a group? It is usually not difficult to find one. Trying to find a group for lower-level quests and instances in WoW is absolute torture. Not so in LOTRO. I seldom have to wait very long, and the game gives you lots to do while you are waiting for a specific group to form.
--classes and races that fit the Middle Earth world well. Thus far I am alternating playing a minstrel (healer class), hunter (dps [high damage] class), champion (melee/dps class), and captain (melee/support class) and think they are all great fun.
--individual (solo) quests (many, many of them!) that are creative, challenging, and entertaining.
--a good mix of group quests and solo quests; one doesn't ever have to group to level all the way up to the maximum level of 50, but it sure is fun to do so.
--a real STORY (in contrast to WoW, which only offers a lore setting, in my opinion) that takes players, slowly and wonderfully, on their own adventure, an adventure that parallels and crosses paths with (but in no way alters) the familiar story of Frodo Baggins and the original Fellowship. This is called the Epic Quest line and it is something that WoW simply does not offer (though Guild Wars does).
--a well-realized and challenging crafting system.
--a clever trait system that allows you to earn various types of buffs for your character, depending on which attributes you want to "grow" in.
LOTRO is hardly perfect, but it has an easy sort of pace to it that's hard to describe, but it just feels more relaxed than WoW. There are a number of ways I would like to see this game improve, but I also have high regard for the developers (Turbine) and appreciate the level of support and the constant updates and upgrades and new content that Turbine introduces through patches.
I held off on trying this game for a very long time, thinking it would just be "so-so", but instead I find it is a welcome blend of a WoW-type MMORPG with a more story-driven game like Guild Wars and a generally more mature player community (at least it is on my server, Brandywine). I highly recommend this game and, if you are unsure about it, try the free trial, as I did. (Just bear in mind that the download is very very slow -- at least it was in my case).
Better than World Of Warcraft August 28, 2008
After leaving World Of Warcraft after two and a half years, I was searching for a virtual world to escape. It needed to offer a more casual and less frantic pace to get to the top fast and less of a need to get all the best of gear for the "endgame" like WOW.I felt like I was spinning my wheels to be the best. Simply, I was in a word "burnt out" from all that. LOTRO offered a fresh start. The detailed world in LOTRO was it for me. In my opinion, it is in so many ways superior. First, the community is excellent. There are always players willing somewhere to help out new players. They even have a dedicated "Advice" chat for questions. The starting areas are simple and plain as they should be.Some of my old WOW friends that "try" this game in those early levels sometimes complain that it is so inferior to WOW. But they forget WOW has just as simple starting areas. So it is unfair to judge until experiencing all the things and places the complete game offer. And let me tell you, it offers plenty and then some. A place to enter a beloved and magical realm right out of a classical fantasy that will make every Lord Of the Rings fan feel like they are actually living in the world from the books.
LOTRO ROCKS! August 4, 2008
(Ed. note: My 13 yr. old son's review) Is it just me, or is this 2$ cheaper than standard edition here? Anyway, I'm a huge Tolkien fan that had been playing Runescape and WoW the past 3 years. Last year sometime in March I was in Netherlands and I saw the pre-order in a magazine. I HAD TO GET IT! Loved the game, the way they embedded the story into it was 10x better than any other RPG I've played so far, and free huge content updates every two months. Well, now I moved to USA and decided to get special edition, for the fact being only 17$ of course, but I'm wondering, does it still come with the month free playtime?
like wow only better in every way July 30, 2008
This game is very similar to wow only with lots of improvements. The graphics are better but its the attention to detail that really makes this game number one. Anything thats in the books is in this game. For example....in the books, when Frodo leaves the shire, they have Fatty Bolger pretend to be Frodo and live in Frodo's new house in Buckland and in the night the nazgul come after Fatty, thinking its frodo, and Fatty escapes but the cloak he was wearing gets torn off....so in the game when you go to Fatty's house hes there but the cloak that got torn off is lying on the ground outside the house. That attention to detail really impressed me.
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