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LORME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: March 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Lots of excitement for hours of fun. MY son won't get off the computer!

Awesome game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is one game I don't mind playing with my boy for hours. He is so into it and it is great for concentration and multitask skills. We both love it. I would have rated 5 stars overall, if it didn't sometimes get 'stuck' after many uses.
Great price!

This game is freakin awesome!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is probably the coolest game ever made.(ok so its a little drastic),BUT! The game is awesome. There are a variety of soildiers and other things the graphics arnt all dat great but you will never notice. when you make soildiers, they will hv command pts. they coul;dve let you command more troops but its ok.The hero attack are so funny watching the enemys flying all over the place. overall this game is awesome. Hope this was a help to u!

Great Game for Great Franchise

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: May 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Lord of the Rings Battle for Middle Earth is a great lotr game.It has 4 factions and they are Isengard, (If you remember Saruman thats where his tower was) Mordor, (which is where the one ring was destroyed) Rohan (where everyone acts overly dramatic but cool) and Gondor (where the stewart jumped off the castle). Each side is good in its own way. Gondor is good w/ defenses and footmen or infantry. Rohan is pretty straight forward but they're best w/ cavalry which is practically they're only military units. Mordor Summons brute strength with elphants ring wraiths huge armies and pretty much any nasty creature/villain you can think of. unfortunately no sauron. Isengard is like mordor but with better infantry. Isengard's infantry are handy especially w/ upgrades which is the smartest thing for them. Now heroes in that game are great. Each and every single unit in the game has 10 veterancy levels. Each level up they become more potent in battle and gain more prowess. (lol i know im a 12 year old and im talking like an adult) anyways it has a unique interface too. Instead of having the sidebar or the bottom bar they have a small plantir in the far left hand corner of the screen. The reason for that is so you can focus more on the battles instead of the command bar. And instead of having workers they have a circular base with build areas and you click on a build site and construct whatever you want. You can also get power points. You use the power of the evenstar or teh one ring for power. when you have enough power points for something you simply get into the power menu and selec what you want. each side has its own special super unit of doom. for gondor and rohan they have the army of teh dead. mordor and isengard have teh balrog. now each of those expire after a while.the campaign is great for both sides too. i loved using lurtz and killing aragorn and teh rest of the fellowship at helms deep. In conclusion Battle for Middle Earth is a great game. I guess they have a sequel w/ and expansion now but im not going to get it because its probably exactly like the first.

Great game, but should have waited!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a great RTS game, but I bought it for 39.99 and the next week it went down to 19.99. Oh well, should have waited, but still a great game.

Easy but fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is actually a easy game for people who are good at playing STG. Even though, you still can enjoy the storyline of The Lord of the Rings at lot. So, no matter you are new or expert of STG, you all will like this game.

Nothing Innovative Here... Read More!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: March 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I got this game hopeing it would be deep and stack up to a game like ROME:Total War... but to my surprise I was greatly disappointed. This LOTR game is nothing innovative, it looks nice but is your basic clone strategy game. If you are looking for a deep strategy game this isn't it... if you are a huge LOTR fan, enjoy. I have been playing games since I was 3 so I've had about 16 years of experience... if you haven't been bored to death by basic strategy games you might like this, just hope the sequel will be alot better! If you aren't a big strategy player or want something alot deeper and not so "dumbed down"... you'll be bored of this game in less than a week.

Great, but repetitive skirmish battles.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The campaign mode is quite lengthy and will account for most of the time spent on this game. Like any good RTS game it has heroes with great attacks. It's fun to use giant siege machines on the walls of Gondor in skirmish, but the maps for skirmish battles are very similar and repetitive unlike the great Campaign Mode.

Awesome Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The only problem with this game is that my husband and son are now completely addicted. :-D

The Battles Of Middle Earth Really Are In Your Hands!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When I first picked up this game, I was skeptical of slogan- Middle Earth Is In Your Hands. I was thinking back to my Star Wars game, where you really didn;t have too much control and people rampaged around wherever they wanted. After the installation (which by the way took a while), I started a good campaign, and was very dissapointed when I was Moria and I had nine useless Fellowship member running around shouting stupid one liners.

My opinion, however, did a complete 180 when I was put into Rohan. When I first set up the camp, I immedietly knew that this game was different. You can actually control individual battalians, and they're not just cheesy pump-n-dump ones; they're upgradeable with weapons, banner carriers, and armour- not to mention fire arrows.

The real treat in this game is when you get to the missions where you actually have a defendable fortress rather than an open settlement. You can put arhcers on your walls, reinforce the gate, build posterns, and battle towers. This taken to an all new level when you beat Minas Tirith and you can actually have more than 5 options of buildings including, marketplace, stoneworker, keep, and workshop, and many more.

The one thing I do have a problem with is the scale. The sixes of these battles are very downscale. Helms Deep is 250 against like 1,000. Unlike in the movie when it's like 5,000 against 10,000. Same goes for Minas Tirith. the ighest is like 600 for the good guys, and about 1,000 bad guys.

Another thing that I didn't like was the cheap way you could win battles. The hugest one was Minas Tirith. Don't want to bother wasting you time defending the gate? Retreat everyone of your 300 archers to the second level. Want to avoid catapult fire? Retreat to a corner to defend from. Every single one of your people died except a hero? Hide in a corner until Aragorn comes. Things like these almost suck the strategy out the game. If you are a crappy commander and easily outnumbered, you should lose, not have a hero hiding in the bushes until the heros come. Thats not to say however that the regular missions are bad- in fact they are the best parts, and you reall have to know what you are doing.

I overall, think this game is just about for any gamer!

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