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My fav LOTR game ever.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: June 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've played every LOTR game out there and EA really blew me away with this games. The graphics are great as well as gameplay. The combat and story mode are really awsome. I reall see nothing wrong with it.

extremely well done

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this game is really great. the graphics are good (though it can take forever to load if you put on high detail), the units and heroes are good to, although you can't play as sauron,which really sucks and the nazgul and witch-king could use more powers, and rohan has to many heros and not enuph units but aside from that its real good. the living world mapis very lifelike, and skirmish mode is fun,you can mess around with your enemy or just go in and kill all. the campaign isnt bad,though your a bit outnumbered at the black gate unless you summon the army of the dead. and it takes a while to get the balrog and he only stays for like 2 minutes.but everything else is good, and you should really try this game out. hope this reveiw helped!

SWEET but no Sauron? =....-/

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Before I say anything else, let me say that the Multiplayer is pretty good and they have free multiplayer servers which ROCKS.

Posatives: GREAT graphics, Sweet replayability, Awsome online capability, map editor, cool good-guy spells and effects

Negatives: Bad guy spells are not very impressive although are very effect at troop enhancement, no Sauron or Risk-type strategy element to game, NO SAURON playability, VERY limited Ring Wraith usage. Coolest bad-guy spell Balrog is set so high and so far towards the end that you hardly use it at all except when you're about to defeat your enemy.

YES if you like RTS/Strategy you'll LOVE this game, and if you REALLY like LOTR you'll LOVE this game, but I was kindof disappointed because I REALLLY wanted to capture the ring and bring Sauron on the battlefield.

I figured this game would allow you to explore different scenarios ....(GAME SPOIL ALERT)....but when you capture the one ring....not much happens.

You capture the one ring and all that happens is you get 4 power points or something stupid like that. I mean CMON! It's the ONE RING!!!

I captured it and I expect BALROGS to be ERUPTING from the Earth and Sauron to march on the White city with his armies in TOE. 4 friggin'powerpointsmymousebutton!!! Sheesh.

Another thing is the Balrog itself. It requires 20! powerpoints to reach the point where you can summon it and the respawn for summoning is like 15-20! minutes. I took the White City on Hard in 20 minutes. When you summon the Balrog it only stays for like 1-2 minutes and then disappears. I was pretty dissappointed about that.

I mean CMON! Just think about it this way. (For the LOTR fans) What if the Captain of the Nazgul swallowed the One-Ring. Suddenly you'd have SAURON, with a BODY, with his POWER, riding a FLYING-SERPENT! BLAM! (This is just a theory that some LOTR fans kick around.)

An RTS?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 20
Date: December 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Like most here, I jumped at the mention of a LOTR game built on the Generals Engine, after having played all the Warcraft3 custom LOTR maps and whatnot.

However I put the game disc in and jump straight to skirmish(most of my RTS time is online, skirmish represents this the best before hand). See that there is only 4 teams, choose good of course. Finish the whole load thing and see an impressive looking fort. My first impressions were great, then I tried to build. How can people even consider this game as an RTS;
- Tiny building Spaces
- Pretty much no selection of Units/Buildings.
- Overpowered units and abilities.
- Poor map layouts.
- Disgusting Resource collection.
- Bad User Interface(EA should have gone with the classic bottem bar, why change something when it wasn't a problem?)
- Uneven teams(Rohan/Gondor is way more powerful than Morder/Isenguard and Online play is usually dominated by the Rohan/Gondor team if everyone is of around equal skill).

This was a poor, poor rushed game. I Was really expecting more, EA should have taken example of games such as Warhammer 40k: Dawn Of War, Rome: Total War, Warcraft trilogy and the Age of Empires series.

I feel sorry for anyone who actually believes they're playing a decent RTS game with this pile of junk.

2D BATTLES... huh?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 29
Date: February 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Sorry for being a stick in the mud but if I had seen this game running before I got it I probably would have just watched someone else play it. The big con to this game (that I was really looking forward to playing) is the fixed world camera with a tiny little tilt to the left or right that springs back the moment you release the key. Zooming in or out takes you somewhat closer to the fights but you cannot choose your action viewpoint meaning that TBFME is a very limited RTS ( I knew it was limited but didn't realize how much)... so much so, that it is nothing more than draw a big box around whatever group is present on the screen and right click on the enemy and then watch the battle

... but watch what? Amazing 2D fight sequences?... and I think you might just get my point here... -> The film is the better 2D fight sequences.

I am sorry but the fact that you could not rotate the camera just blew me away. It felt like playing R-Type Final or some other 2D platform shoot `em up. The extreme (and I mean extreme) lack of critical thinking in this game just makes it a very glorious looking bad game. It is not even a game when compared to any modern RTS. The best way of describing it is like a gawk-fest where you can literally sit back and just let the game run itself. I would not have minded that if I could actually choose an angle to gawk at the battles.

The best way of describing my disappointment is to imagine if the producers of this thing just recorded a demo of the whole game on DVD for you to watch.

Anyhow, all this depends on how much time you invest in games. If you are a fan of the movie, and do not play games, then maybe this will satisfy you. If you have any experience with RTS gaming and a pimpin' fast computer you have a right to know that you can not rotate or tilt the world. If I knew that then maybe this item would have got a far better rating.

I would love to have recommended it but sadly, I am a gamer and felt badly letdown by the lack of world controls. Something as simple as a 360 rotate with a 90-degree tilt would have made it five stars (even with the simplest of RTS controls). As I said, watching the film is better.

Answer to previous questions

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 21
Date: October 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First there will be skirmish mode they said so in interview(...).... yea and there will be like random battles like the npc ally can attack u in the field in campign and it turns to be a random battle map also the ally will never let up unless it wants to for a reason because resources will keep flooding into their coughers(no limit on most resources) so u dont get games like where they attack for a while then run out of resources and its easy to beat them. laters

HI

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 21
Date: November 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I would like to say this game was pretty interesting it blew my boots off. I think u should get the game. the key features are you get to play as rohan gondor of mordor or isengard. You get to control thousands of troops instead of wimpy 30's or 40's. I havent played the game but it looks awsome look at other cool clips and screen shots at eagames.com Just get the game it was supposed to come out in 4 days but know for some strange reason it is now december 6 well hope it is worth the wait... ah who em i kidding i want the game now!!!!!

Battle for middle earth is fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: August 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

it sounds like an awesome game, very interactive, ents can pick upr rocks to throw and troll can pick up trees to use as clubs, a whole new building a base and resource system

Wow!!!!!!! This game look's fun!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: July 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I can't wait you'll have fun being the Riders of Rohan it will be cool or be defending Gondor from the army's of Mordor another thing is to get seige tower's and get up on the walls as Mordor !!!!!!! Or be Isengard and fight at Helm's Deep go to Gamespot to look at pictures because there are two new pictures. There are downloads there were some of the people who working on the game tell you how they're making the game.

Preview for The Battle for Middle Earth.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 57
Date: June 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

From what I have seen from the screenshots, I can't really say much but it looks fantastic. It will be using Command and Conquer Generals engine and it looks pretty good from the screenshots. You can say it is somewhat similar to Medieval Total War series or Shogun series but with a Generals engine. It looks like it will have more than just 50 or 100 units in a battle unlike Starcraft or Warcraft, it probably will have up to 10,000 units in a battle like it does in the movies. I still can't really rate this game because I haven't played it yet but
it is one of PCgamer's top of E3 and it is definitly on my "to have list." Maybe, the game's results might be bad because PCgamer says that results might be rushed but I trust the developers to do a good job because they are about to release one of the most great RTS ever. At least it seems like it will be one of the best. I'll leave it to the developers to do a good job. Since the game is published (not developed) by Electronic Arts, I'm assuming that this game will be good (you know how EA publishes all the good games). Enough talking, while then, I'll be playing my War of the Rings for a while...

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