The Lord of the Rings Online Review

IGN PC has written up their own three-page review of Turbine’s The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, giving the Middle-earth MMORPG an overall score of 8.6/10.

Turbine’s The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar doesn’t breathe new life into the MMORPG genre, but it does deliver an easily accessible, refined, and thoroughly enjoyable experience. It’s packed with content, though still a little light on end-game instances, offers some entertaining character classes and plenty of ways to customize traits to differing play styles. Powerful story elements, fellowship conjunction attacks, and superb audio-visual elements are merged with numerous small-scale interface enhancements that make it nearly impossible to dislike this one. This version of Middle-earth is as good a place as any for those curious about MMOs to start, and provides enough depth for genre veterans to enjoy themselves. Though we’ll have to keep waiting for a truly new kind of MMO, we’re glad this game arrived to keep us occupied in the meantime.