The Lord Of The Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar trailer is up over at Eurogamer. Holy cow, but the environment looks good!
Unfortunately it's then completely let down by what looks like extremely wooden, clunky avatars. They walk badly, dance badly and move badly: and that's all from a distance. No footage of close up animations, but I'm really quite disappointed by this taster.
WoW and SWG set a benchmark that are now 2 and what, 4? years old respectively; any new games should surpass these marks.
Perhaps the avatars do look a little clunky, but it does prompt me to actually open the beta invite that was certainly not sent to me and that i do not have sitting in my inbox but have been to busy to not open because it doesn't exist.
Posted by: Bigwig | January 05, 2007 at 06:49
"WoW and SWG set a benchmark that are now 2 and what, 4? years old respectively; any new games should surpass these marks."
Ouch... the gaming public really *does* want the developers to immolate themselves on the rising pyre of sky-rocketing development costs. I know fear! ;)
Take care!
Posted by: Chris | January 05, 2007 at 09:26
YES! IMMOLATION!!
Warms the cockles :D
Posted by: Alice | January 05, 2007 at 18:22
Hmm, fear AND immolation! And just think of what would happen to the computer industry if games didn't require a brand new computer every couple of years. I shudder to think.
Posted by: bob | January 06, 2007 at 02:18
The avatars look like they're having fun skating everywhere!
Posted by: Tom | January 08, 2007 at 20:17