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 --From godsandheroes.com
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears...
Loyal and faithful community members and Beta testers, thank you for your support, help, and understanding during the Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising development process.
The development team established some very lofty and ambitious goals when the initial work was started on Gods & Heroes. Recently, we took a step back to evaluate the competitive landscape, the game's current state, and the overall goals for our organization. And while we are truly proud of and pleased with what we have created in Gods & Heroes, we also realize that achieving the level of quality and polish that we are committed to will take a significant investment.
The Perpetual team is faced with a unique challenge of simultaneously developing both Gods & Heroes and Star Trek Online in addition to growing our Online Game Platform business. After assessing all of Perpetual's opportunities, we have made the decision to put the development of Gods & Heroes on indefinite hold.
I want to express my overwhelming gratitude to the community, engineers, designers, artists, animators, and the game services team for the support and effort that has gone into Gods & Heroes.
Moving forward, we're shifting our collective focus, resources and development efforts to Perpetual's Platform Services division and Star Trek Online, thereby ensuring that the game lives up to the high level of expectation set by the dedicated Star Trek fan base.
Again, I would personally like to thank all of the Gods & Heroes supporters who have been with us from the beginning. Hopefully, your continued support will be as valuable to our future endeavors as it was with Gods & Heroes..
Vade in pace,
Chris McKibbin |
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WESTWOOD, MA and CHICAGO, IL – April 12, 2007 -- Turbine, Inc. and Midway Games Inc. (NYSE: MWY) today unveiled the Special Edition of The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™. This Special Edition of the highly anticipated massively multiplayer online game provides fans with exclusive items, including the “making of” DVD, a soundtrack of the game, and a special in-game item. The Lord of the Rings Online is scheduled to launch on April 24th in the U.S. and Canada and the Special Edition of the game is now available for pre-order at select retailers nationwide.
LOTRO™ is an incredible game. It’s very unique in many ways. PVP is called “Monsterplay”. A kind of arena instance thing, where you can play as a monster, beast, other pc’s. This definitely reduces network lag and area congestion. Since beta 1 the auction house and mail system have undergone several reworks, additions, and fixes. Towards the end of the final beta it seemed to be working at 100% efficiency. All in all I’d say they had this game up to 98% bug free before the final beta finally closed.
Even with its incredible architecture and great graphics though, I found it hard to play without other people/friends. Most of the quests beyond the lower levels require the aid of others. There is a regional chat so you can request a fellowship invite or start your own, but it’s quite a chore as well as time consuming to get a full fellowship going. When it comes to the high end content you may find yourself waiting two or three days to finally get a good group together that is capable of completing the quest.
Is it a World of Warcraft™ clone? I’d have to say, not exactly. There are some aspects that you would say resemble WoW, but they are done differently enough to put in its own class. Mounts unfortunately, cannot be obtained till level 35, but you can train the skill at level 15. There are Taxi’s, (well ok they’re horses) that travel on a set path from one major city the next (griffins?). Yes it’s like Griffins but as a low level character, it’s the quickest way to travel, so be thankful they’re there.
I have a bad feeling that this game is going to be very hot, but for a very short time period. After 6 months we may see the subscription numbers drop dramatically. I may be wrong, but the fun just doesn’t seem to last for much more than that. All in all I give Lord Of The Rings Online™ a B-. I like the originality, I like the graphics. I definitely like that they worked out as many bugs as they could before release date. I didn’t like spending hours or even days, trying to find groups. If my only choices of games to play this year were Vanguard™ and Lord of the rings online™, I’d pick LOTRO™. |
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