Turbine releases Siege of Mirkwood launch video

It's really to bad that you can't download the SoM update/no enhancement for the character patch while the servers are being redone.

Is it just me or are the graphics/animations looking worse? Maybe I've gotten used to Aion. And why did they make the fell-beast mount look like a t-rex with wings?

OMG - whoever put this video together needs to be cast into the fires of Mt Doom themselves :-o

Don't get me wrong - I'm not hating on Lotro (I have SoM pre-purchased and can't wait to get playing) but that video is just awful!

It showcases all that's less than desirable about Lotro (god-awful animations, awful character models), it makes all the textures look over-saturated and grainy a'la EQ1 or similar, the voice-over is a poor-man's representation of the original in-game narrator, the titles say "Venture into the darkest of forests!" only to be followed by a bunch of *interior* scenes... argh I'll stop but in reference to your comment, Rubi; no it doesn't tip the scales!

For the love of all that's Lotro, don't judge the expansion by this abomination of a trailer which absolutely does not 'serve as a real validation of LOTRO's position as one of the world's premium online games..'

Good lord.

@ CCon99 I hate th models too but and am playing Aion but i resubscribed to LOTRO just a few days ago and I'm finding the quality of teh models and armor easy to look over because the game itself as a whole is still top notch. I'm enjoying my Warden and Rune Keeper right now and am looking forward to taking them through the revamped Lone Lands that is being patched in today. Aion is beautiful but i find teh game play to be lacking for some reason.

I agree, Amana.

Turbine does the worst trailers in the whole mmo industry.
It's like they didn't want people to play it.

Yes, the landscapes look great, and the models are lacking, but still... the game looks much, much better when you actually play it, then it ever looked in one of those trailers.

I really don't get it... can't they make a descent trailer and even 'enhance' it a bit? I mean that's what everybody is actually expecting from the trailers - they should be awesome first, 'real & accurate' later.

Funny how Turbine can't even do properly a 'fly through' mode...
You can see it in the trailers, when camera 'bumps' when zooming in and out... exactly what happens when you mousewheel to zoom... can't they code something special for inner use to cook kick-ass trailers... c'mon how lazy can you be?

Considering that LOTRO just lost 'most retarted mounts & clumsiest combat implementation in a history of mmos' title, I am looking forward to the combat & mount changes.. only waiting for some free trial or week/end to check on SoM and maybe I'll dust off my level 59 hunter.

All in all, it looked promising, in the patch notes.

can anyone tell me the name of the background music in the trailer pls? tnx