New Shores of Evendim Screenshots

Cerion

Some new screenshots at the Codemasters site...I must say the architecture in Evendim is quite epic looking. Pretty impressive.

Shores of Evendim

Jackdog

I find it amazing how great the game looks. Even though they do no use as many polys as some game engines do , their art crews are top notch and the textures are fabulous which enables the game to look and run good on low end off the shelf department store rigs to top of the line custom built game machines.

howiegoo

Very cool! The graphics in this game are some of the best I've seen. Thanks for the link!

CognetoJoe

Looks Awesome !

Farnik

*gapes*



Wow. Man, the graphics are only getting BETTER!



Thank you Codemasters! You are always the ones that releace the juicy stuff before Turbine... I worship you for that! :P

Phoenixs

Looking quite good. My only complaint is that much of the architecture isn't much else than set pieces.

antoniuspius

Originally posted by Phoenixs

Looking quite good. My only complaint is that much of the architecture isn't much else than set pieces.

How can someone find something negative about epic looking screenshots of a FREE content update.

 

Jackdog

Anyone seen anything official on the release date being changed to May 24? I can only find June on anything from Turbine but heard that May date as a rumor.

Morthoron

Originally posted by antoniuspius

Originally posted by Phoenixs

Looking quite good. My only complaint is that much of the architecture isn't much else than set pieces.

How can someone find something negative about epic looking screenshots of a FREE content update.

 

Considering Annuminas was leveled during the final battles with the legions of the WitchKing a few thousand years earlier in the 3rd Age, and, in addition, nothing whatsoever militarily occurred in that area during the War of the RIng, then yes, there is some room for critique.

CognetoJoe

I'm glad I can enjoy it for what it is and not be one of the overly obsessive fans.  It is silly to read the 1/10,000 posts of the obsessed.

Just for the recorded, how do you know exactly what is around the entire area, it is fiction, a made up story, their is no basis of fact that you can conceive to be evident in your critiquing.

Morthoron

 

Originally posted by CognetoJoe

I'm glad I can enjoy it for what it is and not be one of the overly obsessive fans.  It is silly to read the 1/10,000 posts of the obsessed.

Just for the recorded, how do you know exactly what is around the entire area, it is fiction, a made up story, their is no basis of fact that you can conceive to be evident in your critiquing.

Overly obsessive fans? As opposed to overly obsessive fanbois who blindly nod to anything offered with a bit of drool hanging from their lower lip? I would suggest silliness is a relative term.

How do I know what is in the area? I believe that information is available to anyone who read the books (you know, those rectangular thingies filled with hundreds of paper pages with scribbles on it that the game is supposedly based on). True, the story is fiction, but like all fictional stories there is a contextual basis which underlies the fiction. In the case of this story, there is an entire cosmology and cosmogony (big words for a study of the universe and creation), and a chronology of events that stretches back for thousand of years.

There is such a thing as applicability in such a fictional account based on the events of the story, or is it that you are waiting excitedly for your Guardian to get his tricorder and phaser for when the Klingons attack Minas Tirith? I mean, all things being relative, after all.

DeadEnd

I really like the way the game looks, I'm enjoying it a lot.

The new expansion looks great too for sure. I think it will become one of the best games ever.

Cerion

Originally posted by Morthoron

Originally posted by antoniuspius

Originally posted by Phoenixs

Looking quite good. My only complaint is that much of the architecture isn't much else than set pieces.

How can someone find something negative about epic looking screenshots of a FREE content update.

 

Considering Annuminas was leveled during the final battles with the legions of the WitchKing a few thousand years earlier in the 3rd Age, and, in addition, nothing whatsoever militarily occurred in that area during the War of the RIng, then yes, there is some room for critique.

While I agree Morth that there is room for debate or critique or both regarding the precise ruinous state of Annuminas, I'm rather forgiving of Turbine's creative license in this instance.  I'm forgiving because, quite honestly, I WANT to see what Annuminas might have been like in its glory.  If it were to be completely 'leveled' I wouldn't get to indulge that fantasy within a fantasy. (unless of course Gandalf casts his time travelling spell and allows me to travel back to the turn of the age, circa II 3320). It's probably the closest thing we'll see to an interpretation of the power of the Second Age (for some time), and an echo of what Numenor might have been like.

Jackdog

Originally posted by Morthoron


 
Originally posted by CognetoJoe

I'm glad I can enjoy it for what it is and not be one of the overly obsessive fans.  It is silly to read the 1/10,000 posts of the obsessed.

Just for the recorded, how do you know exactly what is around the entire area, it is fiction, a made up story, their is no basis of fact that you can conceive to be evident in your critiquing.

Overly obsessive fans? As opposed to overly obsessive fanbois who blindly nod to anything offered with a bit of drool hanging from their lower lip? I would suggest silliness is a relative term.

How do I know what is in the area? I believe that information is available to anyone who read the books (you know, those rectangular thingies filled with hundreds of paper pages with scribbles on it that the game is supposedly based on). True, the story is fiction, but like all fictional stories there is a contextual basis which underlies the fiction. In the case of this story, there is an entire cosmology and cosmogony (big words for a study of the universe and creation), and a chronology of events that stretches back for thousand of years.

There is such a thing as applicability in such a fictional account based on the events of the story, or is it that you are waiting excitedly for your Guardian to get his tricorder and phaser for when the Klingons attack Minas Tirith? I mean, all things being relative, after all.

or you can just use the books and/or the game as a entertaining diversion. I want my minstrel to get one of those little things Like McCoy had, and a light saber. A purple light saber

WSIMike

Originally posted by Morthoron


 
Originally posted by CognetoJoe

I'm glad I can enjoy it for what it is and not be one of the overly obsessive fans.  It is silly to read the 1/10,000 posts of the obsessed.

Just for the recorded, how do you know exactly what is around the entire area, it is fiction, a made up story, their is no basis of fact that you can conceive to be evident in your critiquing.

Overly obsessive fans? As opposed to overly obsessive fanbois who blindly nod to anything offered with a bit of drool hanging from their lower lip? I would suggest silliness is a relative term.

How do I know what is in the area? I believe that information is available to anyone who read the books (you know, those rectangular thingies filled with hundreds of paper pages with scribbles on it that the game is supposedly based on). True, the story is fiction, but like all fictional stories there is a contextual basis which underlies the fiction. In the case of this story, there is an entire cosmology and cosmogony (big words for a study of the universe and creation), and a chronology of events that stretches back for thousand of years.

There is such a thing as applicability in such a fictional account based on the events of the story, or is it that you are waiting excitedly for your Guardian to get his tricorder and phaser for when the Klingons attack Minas Tirith? I mean, all things being relative, after all.

Oh, come on...



 Get off your high-horse. Get over yourself. Do something.



What are you, a self-appointed member of the Middle Earth Preservation Society or something?



Perhaps you're bitter that Turbine didn't contact you to go over everything with a fine-toothed comb to make sure they got all the lore and locales right in their game?



Please, we're all fans of Lord of The Rings here to one degree or another - there's no need to be snobbish, obnoxious or condescending about it.



It's a game, based on a brilliant work of fiction. Are they going to get every little detail "perfectly accurate"? No. Why? Because the way *you* saw it in your mind when reading the books is not exactly how everyone else imagined it when they did.



And if you somehow feel your interpretation is any more "right" than anyone else... Again, I'll reccomend you get over yourself. Your opinions are no more valid here than anyone else.

Hairysun

Wow, some really uptight folks in this forum.  I would just like to add, after I wipe my chin, loosen the belt on my LOTR bath robe and clear all the miniature LOTR action figures away from the keyboard.  We play in Turbines world, if there is an abundance of anything in game it most certainly would be ruins.  I welcome the addition of a city that hasn't been annihilated.  As my ignorance level is fairly substantial pertaining to the accuracy of the "lore", my experience playing MMOPRGs offsets this nicely.  Simply put, I'm here to play a game....not read a book. 

  The screen shots look great, they alway do with this game.  The free expansion....YES!  Nice to see the devs able to work on adding content to the game instead of focusing on bug fixes, stability issues and nerfing classes.  I truly enjoy this game for what it is....a game.