Customer Reviews

The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar (Prima Official Game Guide)

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Overall, this book seems unfinished, as if it was rushed to release to coincide with the release of the game. Sports decent crafting and character guides for planning your professions and class, but the atlas section severely lacks. Many maps do not have any notations at all, or inadequate notations, which makes them next to useless when you are looking for a mob/mob boss, area, or point of interest. My advice: Wait for the 'revised and updated' edition.

the manual that arrived with the game was more informative than this sad book. there are NO QUEST descriptions and doesn't even explain destiny points. the artwork is fuzzy from bad blowups of ingame screen shots. don't waste your money on this one. very disapointing

Overall, a decent buy. I was expecting more help with quests and the like. It provides excellent strategy for every class, race, and crafting profession as well as detailed maps for every region of the game (at the time of launch).

You would be better off looking up the information online as the game is changing very quickly. The guide will be outdated by Fall 2007.

This book is basic, as others have said. It's a good source for gamers just starting to play LOTRO, or entering regions for the first time.

I find it useful for the maps and craft and class quests. Sure there are online sites with more in-depth information and more detailed maps. Do a google search and make your pick. But unless you have a second computer or monitor (The game in full view is too awesome to shrink) next to you, the book maps are a decent reference, especially when first entering a region for the first time. The game map is empty, only showing where you are and some adjacent locations. The book gives you cities and landmarks.

As far as quest and boss locations, isn't that part of the discovery fun? Okay, okay, not always, and that's where online references can offer cheats to get past those sticky situations.

LOTR is an awesome game. Just starting the game? This book is very useful to you. Otherwise, as others have said, you may want to wait for a new edition. Of course by the time that happens will that be of any use to the veteran LOTRO user?

All this book is, is a listing of all class skills, and level guides, and maps. Don't get me wrong, it is very good at what it covers, but I was hoping for more item listing. I have a level 15 Lore-Master, I know what skills he has, but I don't know how much damage he could be doing with a better staff. It is nice for planning though, you can look ahead to see what level you have to be to do what-ever-it-is-that-you-are-waiting-to-do, but thats about all the first half of the book is good for. The other half, is very nice It has maps of every where you can go, with a lot of people/places marked. As well as having a list of all the prices for rideing a horse. Did you know, from one of the Elf towns, it is 58s cheeper to go to Thorin's gate, and go from there to Bree, then to go straght to Bree? I did not, but I do now.

ALl in all, its a good book, but not Very Good.

With all the patches/"Book"s/updates/changes that have come out since LOTRO's release, this book is quite outdated in information. Some of the training guide info is off, map areas released after original release like Evendim are not included. Is still a good book for a beginner to get the hang of some of the basics and basic maps.

This guide has some usefulness but is VERY VERY outdated. Many of the skills and map locations are just wrong or missing. It's an MMO. They change constantly and Turbine has been updating almost monthly. Bound guides just don't work for MMOs. Only option is to subscribe to some online strat guide that keeps up to date or just go to the LOTRO Lorebook.

It's always useful to have these Prima Guides for complicated games like LOTRO - the only shame is that I didn't get it until just around when the new expansion (Evendim) came out - I wish they would release a free supplement for people who have already bought the book.

This book is a real time saver for LOTRO players. The maps are very usefull as are the descriptions of player classes, traits, deeds, etc. It gets the beginning player off to a fast start, and is still usefull at level 50.

The game has a well developed PvP, in Monster Play. Any review that says that LOTRO does not have PvP is suspect.

There are no cheats, spoilers or walkthroughs in this guide. It is a basic reference guide with handy information on each class, the skills each class receives at each level and maps of the areas. It isn't great but I find it handy as a reference for my gameplay, unlike volume II, which is a complete waste of money.