Lord of the Rings Online: Preview @ Gamespot

Gamespot joins Codemasters and Turbine for a preview of Lord of the Rings Online in Leipzig, Germany.

Codemasters and Turbine showed us how the first half hour of play might pan out. You'll start in a village that's home to hobbits, which include relations of Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, and it's not long before trouble arrives and you're naturally left to help out with only your basic skills and combat ability to depend on. As you may remember from the films and books, the black knights on horseback are rather keen to find Frodo, and when one of them descends on your hobbit neighbours, it's down to you to help out the poor little guys. Codemasters showed us how to create a fire on one of the houses, and we watched it spread until it completely engulfed the black knight. Sauron's riders may well be pretty tough, but they're still susceptible to fire, and under the pressure of the mounting flames, the knight disappeared into the distance.

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Source: Gamespot