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Originally Posted by NevadaSTi
Hey, how is LOTR Online? I'd like to get it, but I am stuck in WoW right now. How does it compare to WoW?
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It's good.
It handles the IP very well, the mechanics are pretty similar to WoW except that there is no normal style of PvP (you go and unlock the ability to make monster characters and womp on high level good-aligned player characters, I believe). The icons and UI are not nearly as polished as WoW, but they are serviceable and there are a decent amount of options out of the box to customize it to your liking (although I'm not sure what's out there in terms of mods). I do like the scripted in-game cutscenes (ala FFXI) and pre-rendered cutscenes (ala Asheron's Call 2) which relay bits of the story for quests and the world itself outside of the flavor text in NPC dialogs and quest descriptions.
There's a 7 day trial at
http://trial.lotro.com, which is what I'm playing (although I did play the beta a long time ago).