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LotRO: Seven genres in one game

by Christopher Colon May 30th 2008 at 2:30PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Game mechanics, Opinion, Casual, Humor


Part of the genius of Lord of the Rings Online is how Turbine managed to wrap seven genres into one game. No, I am not talking about their Web games promoting the Mines of Moria. Rather, I am talking about how utterly different the play of each class is while being in the same environment. This is great because it aids the replayability of a game whose content, shall we say, lends itself to considerable replay for the committed player.

Each class is its own game – so much so that each actually typifies not merely a different RPG character type, but actually completely different genre of gaming.

Can you match the genre to the character class?

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