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Developer Diary with Jeffrey Steefel
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Received by Ralsu
The friendly folks on the Turbine team behind Lord of the Rings Online:
Shadows of Angmar (LOTRO) were kind enough to send me developer diary
video featuring the many places in LOTRO.
In particular, I wish to thank Adam Merksy, Director of Communications
at Turbine for helping these pictures find their way to my inbox.
The
Places of LOTRO
It's all happening so fast! First Turbine was kind enough to share some
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screen shots of Brockenborings Orchard with me, Then
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announced Alpha. After that, some
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video footage landed in my lap. And just yesterday
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shared some of the feedback it has received from Alpha players.
Without a doubt, LOTRO is well on its way! With all this building
momentum, I thought nothing could be better. Then Turbine sent me this
video!
In the video, LOTRO Executive Producer Jeffrey Steefel describes some
of the various locations in the game. He mentions several famous
locales, such as Eriador, Rivendale, Tom Bombadil's house and
Buckleberry Ferry. If you think it's exciting to hear confirmation that
these areas will make it into the game, just wait until you see them in
this video! These shots reveal stunning landscapes with realistic
lighting effects. They'll leave longing to be able to run through the
countryside.
Next, Steefel describes the starting locations for the four playable
races (men, hobbits, elves, dwarves). Hobbits and men start out in
Breeland. This starting area is an authentic-looking castle town,
complete with multistory buildings and merchant carts. Pay close
attention to the archery practice in this part of the video. Notice
that you can distinguish each individual arrow in the archer's quiver!
Dwarves and elves start in the area of Ered Luin. The architecture here
truly looks as though it belongs to another race. You'll see fortified
walls and majestic audience chambers. Steefel promises that players
will get plenty of background story to understand why the elves are in
Ered Luin with dwarves.
Well, there you have it. This developer diary is 1 minute 39 seconds of
LOTRO bliss and weighs in at 58MB. What are you waiting for? Get to
watching!
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