The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood
Siege of Mirkwood will expand the online world of Middle-earth where players will join forces to press further eastward into the dark, foreboding and treacherous forest of Mirkwood and take part in the epic…
The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Turbine, released 1 December 2009 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood is
The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Turbine and released in 2009. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Turbine G3. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Mirkwood - Once it was Greenwood the Great, and men and Elves lived in peace beneath its boughs... until the Necromancer's Tower arose, stirring a great evil in the forest's heart. Now death and darkness thicken the forest air, stifling life and twisting the green, growing things. To this dark and foreboding place, Lord Celeborn of Lothlórien send the Malledhrim, the Golden Host. Their purpose is to harry the armies of Dol Guldur, fortress of the Ringwraith known as the Lieutenant of Dol Guldur, right hand of the Witch-king of Angmar and keep them from growing stronger, but more importantly... to mask the passage of the Company of the Ring from the eaves of Lothlórien, turning the eyes of…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy.
Where it sits in the The Lord of the Rings series
The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood is the 34th of 69 entries we hold in the The Lord of the Rings series. It arrived 11 months after The Lord of the Rings: Conquest. The next entry was The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest in 2010. Its critic score of 80 is 6 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring at 91.
How it was received
The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 61% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 13 points above the year average.
What it launched against
The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood launched on 1 December 2009, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed II, Left 4 Dead 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed II, Left 4 Dead 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors.
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