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Will not run

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 32
Date: March 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Bought two copies for two different computers. We get a game.dat error on both of them. Have appropriate drivers and everything that is needed. Check out the EAForum and see how many others have had this problem. Save your money until they get this problem fixed.

unbelievable!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 26
Date: March 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is the first day the game is available, and already there are problems! There's a patch waiting for you to download because the game doesn't load properly for many of us without the "proper" video card(?) EA does mention BFME II doesn't work with NVIDIA GeForce 4, but apparently that card is NOT the only one! I too am getting the game.dat error message and booted off. The patch did NOT fix the problem for me. The game still doesn't work. EA also says you must turn off your antivirus and firewall programs in order to run the game. I don't know about you, but being on cable, I don't do ANYTHING without those two running. Why EA thought it would be alright to demand we make our computers targets if we play BFME II I haven't a clue...but they did. So far I'd have to say this game is a disaster! IF you have NVIDIA GeForce 7, the manual says you should enjoy the graphics. I guess for the rest of us, we'll never know!!! I changed my graphics card from the Intel one that came with the computer to a NVIDIA 5200 I've had for over a year and it will run, but locks up after about an hour. Good luck!!! Actually, the manual does offer a suggestion. We're supposed to open the task manager and stop everything except explorer.exe and taskmgr.exe and any system/local service/network service processes. Okay, so the developers knew there was a problem, but thought just turning EVERYTHING OFF would do the trick. Amazing. For more fun, go to EA's website and look at the number of folks complaining about this!!!

DVD Version may not work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 25
Date: March 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought the Collector's Edition. Install went smoothly, game startup got me the message that I needed to enter the game disc. So I verify that I have the game disc, and get the same message. Swap the discs, get the same message.

I spent several hours going through the support steps on the website, and the phone support person was kind enough to read where it says deep in the manual that some Sony-brand DVD players will not work. That would have been helpful to know before I bought the DVD version.

I am now at the point I don't care how good the game is, I'm not spending another second to make it work. Stay away from the DVD version.

Terrible Experience

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 24
Date: March 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for the sole purpose of playing online. Too bad the online portion of the game doesn't work. (The fact that a patch is ALREADY available just reeks of the fact that they rushed this out without proper testing.)
So heres my story. I logged on no problem. I tried to host a game. The game locked up my system. Now I can't log on at all. I recieve the message "Can not complete transaction in the current service state." This has got to be the most cryptic error message since Windows 95. Having no clue what the message means I attempt to call technical support. Good luck there. First off the menu system makes you listen to SEVEN options for the game Battlefield 2 before you can access an option for ANY other game. I guess battlefield 2 is even less ready for release than this one was. After finding the right option, I was subjected to what HAS to be the most obnioxious wait music of all time for SEVEN minutes before a recoreded voice told me my wait would be TWENTY-FIVE more minutes.
Maybe their online support would be better right? Wrong. After filling out a lengthy report of my problem, the website told me I was not able to submit it because java scripting was not enabled on my browser. The only problem is that it IS allowed. Good job all around EA. I will NEVER buy from them again.

Will Not Even Run! Does Run Occasionally But Super Slow!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 23
Date: October 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I spent about 6 hours on my own trying to get this to run, and it made me update my video drivers (my computer is VERY high performance) and once this was all done my computer crashed and was left in such a poor state that I had to have a professional computer repair technician spend two hours to salvage the situation. I am currently back to where I was before, able to use my computer and do everything I did before, and the game actually runs, but it runs so slow and sluggish that it is beyond pathetic. The technician said that my computer is fine and that nothing is wrong with the drivers or anything of that sort. In short, he concluded that the game is worthless and that I should seek a refund from the manufacturer. It will run occasionally, but when I click to give an order to a unit it freezes for 30-50 seconds, unfreezes, the order begins to be executed, then it freezes again, then it unfreezes, then it crashes... I don't know why I paid 38 dollars for that...

Be warned!! May not work by design.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Although the first game was pretty damn good, be careful buying this one. Apparently for some reason EA has intentionally made this game incompatible with some NVIDIA Geoforce graphics cards even if they meet the memory requirements. Not sure why they did this and don't care either. There was no information about this in the description on Amazon and nothing on the box that I received either. Double check the web to see if it will work with your card.

Weak single player game for very high end systems only

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 20
Date: March 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have yet to see this game played smoothly on any box. I have two high end systems that both slow to a crawl a key parts of the game--same with my friends' systems. Maybe if you've got an SLI setup with multicore you'll see good framerates otherwise it's a bigtime jerkfest. The minimum requirements posted on the box are a joke and are bound to lead to people buying this game who simply can't play it. It would really be good to see some game companies called on the carpet for their bogus system requirements. On any other product this would be called bait-and-switch false advertising, but game developers just get a pass.

The single player campaigns, which is why I bought the game, are pretty thin compared to other games of this type. They sure don't hold a candle to any of the Warcraft titles. They are very brief and the actual control options are nowhere as near detailed as games released years ago. I wouldn't bother with this one unless you're an avid online gamer.

The one good thing I gave to say is that the evil campaign's storyline is pretty cool. You get to play out an alternate Lord of the Rings where everything goes very wrong for the good guys. Who hasn't wanted to smack a hobit.

Perfection undone

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: November 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a perfect example of DON'T-FIX-WHAT-IS'NT-BROKEN. The original game was perfection and loaded with new ideas and functions. This game takes away all the strategy and makes it into another mainstream rts. The only goal now is to pump out units as fast as you can in order to flatten the enemy instead of having that extra level of capturing building plots. The game is fun for the first 9 or 10 hours, but after that it loses it's appeal. I admit that the hero creator is cool(hence the overall 2 stars), but nothing can heal the disappointment of seeing one of your favorite games massacred in front of your eyes. This game is now worth as much to me as a paperweight and sits on my shelf collecting dust.

Might be an interesting game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Despite the fact that the requirements for this game are met by my computer the game will not run. Instead the game boots up and as soon as you attempt to move a character the computer is automatically rebooted. Researching this issue, I found that either the graphics driver had to be updated(which I did) or the monitor resolution must be lowered(which I tried). Neither solution helped, I have not been able to play the game. I assume this will work with a more updated computer so I will wait until I build my next one before knowing whether or not this is a worthwhile game.

The original was better in many ways

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

First off, the "strategic" level war of the ring is total crap. Very simplistic and not very playable. Again, there are two pre-scripted campaigns: good and evil. Those are o.k. but you don't have the option of picking your next battle by moving on a strategic map like in volume I. No real improvements in design or playability, just new races and units. I had expected more.

Not recommended.

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