One of the big ways that LOTR sets itself apart from WoW however is it’s high level of polish. The quest descriptions were always detailed about where I needed to go to finish the quest. The graphics are, again, beautiful and the level designers took much of the LOTR lore into account. One particularly enjoyable scene for me was coming around a corner to find a hole in the dungeon ceiling that was allowing a beam of light in. Right smack-dab in the middle of that beam was a solid stone troll. It’s this kind of attention to detail I’ve noticed early on that has impressed me. During the final quest of the “newbie zone” I had to run around and protect an NPC dwarf as we chased down a bad guy in some old ruins. The voice acting was superb, the writing excellent, and the whole sequence had the feel of some of the best that Guild Wars has to offer. Add the LOTR franchise onto that and I really enjoyed it.
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