You can equip multiple relics in your belt slot that come with their own stat modifiers and you have to fill these relics up with stat gems. At least the way that you customize the character outside of the matches, to a degree, mirrors how buying items work in other MOBAs. The problem with this system is that you are then stuck with whatever you are equipped with so you cannot change your strategy mid game but at least your opponent would not be able to do the same. I suppose the developer thought that adding an item shop in the match may be too complicated for console gamers.

Now strange as this may sound, there is no gold economy within the matches itself and all of the items that you can equip your character must be done before the game starts. GoMe offers pre-game customization options found in LoL which means that outside of the matches, you get to rank up your player profile which leads to better pre-game preparation. Thankfully, just like any other good MOBAs out there, this game is deliciously fun and addicting. Which is a real shame because I know that the PlayStation 3 can do so much better than this. Not only does GoMe look sad and mediocre, the frame rate is downright horrible. Be prepared to be utterly disappointed by the game's graphics. At the moment, it features 22 unique champions from the LotR universe, - yes, Gollum included (eIf you are not familiar with MOBA, basically, you are controlling one of the 5 champions on your team against another team of 5 and your goal is to destroy the enemy base before your enemies destroy yours. Well, the good news here is that this game is very well done for a console MOBA. Perhaps they wanted to release GoMe on consoles to prove a point? That this genre should find a home on the consoles? I would have believed that last point if they actually included keyboard and mouse control for the game because this game was definitely custom made for the controller, for better or worse. But they got The Lord of the Rings license but I suppose they felt that was just not good enough. I suppose that Monolith was afraid to go into the PC market because they don't want to get lost between the three MOBA giants: League of Legends, DOTA 2, and Heroes of Newerth. That should not be that much of a problem though because you can always make a MOBA with keyboard and mouse controls for the consoles but those who game only on consoles may see that as a deterrent. Real MOBA, as I am excluding Awesomenauts here, is native only to the Personal Computer for a good reason. I don't know what possessed developer Monolith Productions to release Guardians of Middle-earth which is a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena on the consoles.

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