The Lord of the Rings Online

The Lord of the Rings Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game for Microsoft Windows and macOS set in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, taking place during the time period of The Lord of the Rings.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Great graphics.
 * 2) The soundtrack is just perfect.
 * 3) You can group with other players to do certain quests, instances, and more!
 * 4) The epic story quests are really good and entertaining, which makes the game more fun to play.
 * 5) If one of your characters reach level 10, you can do something called " Monster Play ", where you play as the enemy faction and fight the Free Peoples.
 * 6) You can either play as a "Man", "Elf", "Dwarf", "Hobbit", and they all have their own interesting slice of life story.
 * 7) It's free to play! (Although there is some stuff you need to pay for)
 * 8) Beautiful scenery, you could just stare at it for hours!
 * 9) You will meet a bunch of likable characters throughout the game.
 * 10) The PVP is great too, there is this open-world region called The Ettenmoors, in this area, two player factions are on war with each other, " Monsters " and " Free Peoples ", these two player factions get to fight each other and try to claim outposts and keeps.
 * 11) The villains are perfectly done.
 * 12) You can redo story instances you have previously completed which is uncommon for most MMORPGs.
 * 13) Server transfers are a thing! What that means is that you can move your characters to another server. So if you no longer like the server you're on, you can transfer your character! (Transfers are not free though as they cost a certain number of LOTRO points, and you can't transfer to a server from a different country either.)
 * 14) If you're looking for a friendly community, there's this server called Gladden! It may be the lowest populated US server, but the majority of players on there are really nice and helpful!

Bad Qualities

 * 1) LOTRO points are very slow to earn due to the fact that you have to do long deeds to get them and they reward you only 5-10 LOTRO points for completing them.
 * 2) Speaking of which, the game urges you to go in the LOTRO Store a lot which can be very annoying.
 * 3) The combat can get slow and boring at times.
 * 4) Like many MMOs, you could run into a mean player at some point.