Lord of the Rings Online - Preview @ Games Radar

Lord of the Rings Online has been previewed at Games Radar.  Here's an excerpt:

Any new persistent world inevitably suffers comparison to World of Warcraft, the current "how online games should be done" benchmark. But Shadows of Angmar is holding up nicely, drawing obvious interface and questing lessons where appropriate, but striking out for new ground with confidence. Though it doesn't have quite the level of aesthetic consistency (yet, at least), Turbine's baby is nonetheless more graphically detailed than anything you'll see in WarCraft's angular and cartoony realm of Azeroth.