{"id":333,"date":"2007-06-04T18:04:26","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T23:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/06\/04\/the-mad-gamer-does-lotr-online-have-the-wow-factor\/"},"modified":"2007-11-11T23:00:26","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T04:00:26","slug":"the-mad-gamer-does-lotr-online-have-the-wow-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/06\/04\/333-the-mad-gamer-does-lotr-online-have-the-wow-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mad Gamer: Does LOTR online have the WoW factor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">The long-awaited long-in-the-making LOTR Online (full name: Midway&#8217;s Lord of the Rings Online: The Shadows of Angmar) is finally out \u2013and the big question: can it beat out World of Warcraft? It&#8217;s easy to feel over LOTR and a bit apprehensive about an online game that could&#8217;ve been so easily ruined. Expectations have been high \u2013and the first impressions are that this does have the wow! factor. And if you have ever played WoW, you&#8217;ll feel at home with only a small learning curve required. It&#8217;s a very good looking MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) with the lighting, environment and detail all passing the test. In fact, stunning is the word. Water \u2013always a good one to check \u2013 is awesome with the ripples looking very authentic and shadows and lighting along with a bunch of post-processing effects are astonishing. It feels like you really are in Middle Earth even though the plot varies a great deal. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/blog\/story.cfm?c_id=1501199&amp;objectid=10443659\" target=\"NEW\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-awaited long-in-the-making LOTR Online (full name: Midway&#8217;s Lord of the Rings Online: The Shadows of Angmar) is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[107,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-5n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}