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标题：Middle-Earth Online
作者：Ken Brown
期刊名称：Games for Windows
印刷版ISSN：1933-6160
出版年度：2004
卷号：January 2004
出版社：Ziff Davis Media Inc.

Middle-Earth Online

Ken Brown

Five years after Sierra announced Middle-Earth Online, we��re finally starting to see progress on it. The massively multiplayer game is emerging from vapor at Turbine Software (developers of Asheron��s Call) and is tentatively slated for late 2004.

MEO is set after the Fellowship exits the mines of Moria. The game lets you choose from one of four races (Men, Hobbits, Elves, and Dwarves) to bash orcs, explore, craft objects, and own homes in places like Bree, The Shire, or Rivendell.

Three new character classes have been announced: soldiers, sages, and elven scouts. Soldiers are obviously good for fighting. Sages are students of lore and the secrets of Middle-earth. Although weak in melee, their healing spells make them invaluable in a fight.

Elvish scouts patrol elf realms to counter the menace of orcs and other interlopers. Scouts are completely at home in the wild and are able to turn the terrain of the land to their advantage. Stay tuned for more news in coming months.