See first footage of LOTRO: Mines of Moria

Look Ephialtes familiy guards the Mines,who knew.

Anyhow it looks impressive but I'm tiredof MMO's nut I might check a new Guild wars.

You'd thought that next gen would provide us with some half-decent lava animation. With all respect, the lava one the trailer reminds me of the one in Rayman 2.

Why have I never bought the lord of the rings online? I guess I just don't have the time for MMOs and I never got into WoW either. I assume LOTRO doesn't have PvP. I'm a big enough LOTR fan though that it'd be cool but it probably doesn't have the scale needed for Middle Earth.

FYI, this game is amazing. By far the most immersive and compelling MMO on the market. They paid particular attention to detail - it's a very lovingly-crafted recreation of Middle Earth, and it has all the scope and depth you expect from the source material. I wish the marketing for the game was stronger - most of the screenshots I've taken have been jaw-dropping.

You'd think LOTR would get more attention being part of that fantasy world but I don't know anyone playing it.

Then again hardcore MMO players don't get out much.

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There was never magma in Moria. At most, there was brimstone, brought in by the orcs and fired up by the Balrog

Ah, the new Ironforge expansion =D

But in all seriousness it looks nifty, even though I don't play the game. However I don't remember the bit about the flowing lava waterfalls in the books, though I don't know when exactly this is taking place on the LotR timeline, perhaps they had it back in the day.

Reminds me a LOT of the dwarf starting city in the Warhammer Online beta (which I've played a little of, but I don't plan on buying that game).

Would be cool if the expansion areas were big enough to really simulate the massiveness Moria requires, I can't get a good sense of that in the video.

Would be even more awesome if the game explored the depths well below Moria where the most ancient things dwell (oldest things in Middle Earth), but I don't think Tolkien ever described those things.

Looks cool but I can never really stay invested in an MMO for mroe than about a month and a half.

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Well, there was Runescape, but that was middle school. /:

Considering the low poly limitations they had on the models, I think that they've done brilliant work on the environmental textures and lighting.