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witch king expansion pack

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: January 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

the expansion pack doesn't offer much that's different from the original game.

Read the book but don't expect all things to be perfect afterwards!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Though some tout about lack of book reference in games and moives, I see them as they are, Fun! Acording to the Fellowship book(not movie) though, the Witch Lord(or king here) was referred to as "the only other time Hobbits battled for humans and others ect. ect". The game is intriguing in that it references what is only briefly recapped on in the book, A witchlord and his rein of distruction before the "War of Middle Earth." This time you have an evil campain and you are the Witchlord(or King-or whatever) and in his hayday after the downfall of Lord Sauron and Isuldur's take down. These events take place in a more recent history(quite close to the Hobbit and tLotRs but beyond living memory) when the Shire is young and during the time Golumn(a character not referenced here) begins his transformation from Hu-hobbit to ghoul. Don't expect an epoch unabridged tale in the Battle for Middle Earth Games as a whole but do expect a lot of recaps on the history before the War as this is untold by Tolkien himself yet the permission for these games was granted to give them scope and content beyond LoR that is why the evil campains in BfME are so intriguing, they render an alternate ending. Unlike privious installmnets which were uninteresting and only adhering to the movies and nothing more than seeing the movie in "game" form. I will not review each individual game as this should suffice to represnt all, but I will say this is an interesting take on a history only breifly gone over in the books. I suggest "Overlord" for a truely evil campain or "Witcher" for an RP element-though what is "evil" anyway... Some of the comentary I've seen here(and on most cheezey DVD's I buy is just as evil!) I say drow and Haven both are Grey. HYPPIECRITS!

great expansion on a already great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Battle for Middle Earth was really good, and now with this expanison gameplay has been improved and all races now get more units as well as a brand new race. The single player is really fun and you get to see the ruins of the Lord of the Rings movies in their prime. Lots of fun, any lord of the Rings fan would love it.

My son LOVES this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my son, who read all the books and has seen the movies. He is 11 (yes he read the book series early). The graphics are incredible and he gets so immersed in the game. This particular game was an add on pack to one of the other middle earth games I believe. He loves all of the lord of the ring PC games I, II and this one. Most of the time I refuse to buy PC games because he has video games but this PC game is worth installing.

"Awesome Strategy"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is really fun, and has great strategy. It also has unique units, buildings, and heroes for each of the seven races:
Elves
Dwarves
Men
Goblins
Mordor
Isengard
All New: Angmar
This game adds on to The Battle for Middle Earth 2, with all new heroes, units, and faction. It is a must have for any Lord of the Rings fan.

This game gave me anger problems

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: January 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this game could have been so much better, this game is SO umbalanced. the new faction Angmar is easily the most powerful faction in the game next to the drawrves which makes me so mad because, this is a pretty good game other than these problems, the other problem is the worst AI known to man, (next to superman 64) it will completely ignore your units and go for your resource buildings (espicialy on brutal) maybe... just maybe a patch will come out and fix the bugs and if so get this game

Fun game, but full of bugs and not supported by EA

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: September 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Okay, let me start off by saying that this game can be fun...but, there are huge problems in it. There are so many bugs in the game. It constantly crashes on me if I play for a decent amount of time. Also, there are too many other bugs in the game to list. I've contacted EA and they just ignore me and everyone else who complains about it. There's not even any plan to release another patch for the game. If you like real time simulations (RTS), then get a game not made by EA because their customer support is a joke.

The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle Earth II: Rise of the Witch King

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: May 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great Expansion, must Expansion don't give you much. But this Expansion made the game even better.

Unable to play due to errors

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: April 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

After receiving and installing the game was unable to play due to an dat.error. Apparently this is a known issue from EA forums that many people experience after instillation. DO NOT recommend buying as EA has not released a fix. The only way is to download a torrent with a no cd crack which is not a fix.

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4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great Game, Much more difficult than the other Battle for Middle Earth Games. Still not much different then the others, the only draw back is that you can only be the Witch King for the Campain.

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