Lord of the Rings: The Third Age Preview
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For our attacks, we had the usual assortment of main attacks, magic attacks, and special attacks, each with the appropriate glitzy graphics for such an attack. Combo attacks are also available, with what's reputed to be some pretty punishing results, although we didn't have the chance to pull one off in our short playtime with TTA. Without getting too much in specifics however, the combat system isn't going to be revolutionary, but it is as good as any other system we've seen, so there's certainly nothing to complain about. On a related note, in our last battle in the game against the trolls, they ended up circling us instead of just going in to a lineup; this is one of the cool little things that were apparent in the game.
