Lord of the Rings Online MMO News, Guides, and Features at Ten Ton Hammer

A GeForce 3 or equivalent Video Card
1 GHz machine
512MB of RAM
Dial-up connection.

Minimum Requirements are Subject to Change.

Yes. LOTRO supports both 1st- and 3rd-person cameras. While in 3rd-person perspective, players will be able to utilize the mouse wheel to choose the camera angle they prefer.

For now the game will be PC/Windows only. There are no current plans to port it to other platforms (Apple, PS2 etc).

It might be possible to play LOTROG via Wine on platforms like Linux and BSD.

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• Transgaming (Cedega)

LOTRO uses the G3 engine made by Turbine, an updated version of the G2 engine used for AC2. This does not mean that LOTRO will be like AC2: the engine itself is a generic toolset to build the game and contains no concepts (as best as possible) for a specific game rule set, form of combat or look-and-feel. Also tools like Maya for 3D modeling , Photoshop Pro (textures), Worldbuilder, MS Visio and even MS Excel are used.

Turbine is also a listed user of Havok, an engine to create realistic physics, and "Granny", a tool for creating avatars, but we do not know if they are used for LOTRO.