If you search YouTube you can find some off-screen footage from E3. I was NOT impressed by anything I saw. I'll reserve judgment for now, as I know that this is all in the early stages.

is split screen confirmed? those angles would make a shared screen experience worse than fable 2.

i hope you're wrong jim, i really want a good couch co-op LOTRO RPG.

For the record, it looked more like a hack'n'slash with some time-based RPG elements. Kind of like Monster Hunter.

Those colors are pretty bad - everything is brown. The leaves on the tree even look like they are dead.

I think two player split screen is confirmed in this article

http://www.middleearthcenter.com/2010/0 ... uch-co-op/

Sounds and looks good to me. Looking forward to some more information. Great game concepts have proven to be pretty lousy game play so we shall see.

I am also taken aback by the non-overhead view. However, those images look pretty nice so far. Now what I wonder is this...are there only three characters to choose from (kind of like how Demon Forge only has the two) or will there be different classes for extreme character customize. For example, will three buddies be able to control a party of all warrior dwarves, or will there always be one human (presumably a Ranger/Dunedain), dwarf, and elf?

txshurricane u mind linking this off-screen gameplay, had trouble locating it