Mines of Moria Expansion Announced for LOTRO

Andy Chalk

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Mines of Moria Expansion Announced for LOTRO


The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria [http://www.turbine.com/], the first retail expansion for the hit MMOG based on J.R.R. Tolkien's legendary fantasy world.

The underground cities of the Dwarves will be opened for exploration as players engage in epic battles in the depths of Durin's Bane [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-earth] and more. The expansion will also feature an increased level cap to level 60, new Rune-Keeper and Warden classes and a unique item advancement system which will allow players to forge weapons and equipment and evolve them into legendary items similar to Sting or Glamdring.

"The Mines of Moria is one of the most epic settings in all of fantasy fiction," said Turbine President and CEO Jim Crowley. "No one delivers more quality content than Turbine and with our journey into Moria, we will raise the bar even higher. We are adding vast amounts of content, debuting massive new environments and unveiling numerous unique feature sets, like item advancement, which will create entirely new dimensions of compelling gameplay and social interaction which are unique to The Lord of the Rings Online experience."

To celebrate the announcement, Turbine and Codemasters invited gamers to check out unlocktheminesofmoria.com [http://unlocktheminesofmoria.com], where they can learn more about the Mines of Moria and play special mini-games that will be released over the coming months. Players completing special deeds can unlock exclusive previews, assets and in-game items for use when the expansion launches.

The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria is scheduled for release in fall 2008. For more information, check out The Lord of the Rings Online website [http://www.lotro.com/].


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Melaisis

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Turbine are really great at delivering content at a reasonably speedy rate. A casual player of LotRO like myself cannot simply keep up! Although I'm sure this is a great thing, and more expansions can only move the game further into 'dedicated fanbase' terriority. People were calling Lord of the Rings Online the next WoW. Now, I disagree with that. The next Everquest? Absolutely!
 

aegis7

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Although I don't play LoTRO, I have to say the name of the expansion is exciting. I used to play a game called Moria growing up, I think it's in the Nethack genre. Anyway, cool.
 

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Just bumping this thread up to show of you, how good turbines games are. take a look, join the 7 day free trial and join us in middle earth.

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aegis7 said:
Although I don't play LoTRO, I have to say the name of the expansion is exciting. I used to play a game called Moria growing up, I think it's in the Nethack genre. Anyway, cool.
Just try it out indeed. ;)

The Mines of Moria is one of the biggest expansions ever in MMO world. It's mighty impressive to walk into the huge caves of Moria. It is so big, and so incredibly detailed. For example there is a part in Moria that is called the "Endless Stairs", the amount of steps this stairs have is described in the books and the developers made sure they used the exact same amount. Because "one never knows someone may actually count them". ;)