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The Best Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 27
Date: October 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best game in all history. You can chose from Rohan, Gondor, Mordor, or Isengard. This game will blow any other RTS gaem out of the water. The graphics are atounding, and gameplay is amazing. They have completely redoen the interface, and the gameplay itself. Instead of having this huge bottom bar, you have a couple small bubbles which show the units special abilites.
Each race has its own heroes and units from the movie. Rohan has THeoden, and stuff like that. Different sides can also summen up different forces. Like Isengard can summon up the freezing rain at Helms Deep and take away any leadership bonuses.
If you don't belive me, check out all the inside the battle clip at your favorite game informer website. If you aren't amazed, you better come out of your cave.
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Buyer Beware

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 20
Date: December 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you don't have a really really good computer don't even try to play this. I have 2.2 GHZ, 768 MB RAM, 128 MB Graphics card, windows XP, The latest Direct X, and an 40 GB of availble space on the hard drive, and even at the lowest graphic setting you can run this game at it runs really slow. I'm not sure how good of a computer you need to have to play this game smoothly, but it's definatly not the MIN requirment that EA put on the box. Maybe I should just fork over the $1.5K+ for an Alienware because I don't think anything else will run this game.

Command all the soldiers from Lord of the Rings from Rohan peasants to Nazgul

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth is a great game. Battle on familiar landscapes such as Osgiliath, Minas Tirith, Helm's Deep, and more! Command troops ranging from Gondor knights to Mumukil, and hero units from Aragorn to Saruman.
In this game, there are two types of gameplay: Campaign and Skirmish. Skirmish is just a short battle pitting two teams against each other. Campaign is more interesting, you can play the Good Campaign and the Evil Campaign. In the Good Campaign, you start off in Moria with the entire Fellowship at your command and as you progress you will fight in famous battles like Helm's Deep where you will defend the fortress from Saruman.
And in the Evil Campaign you start in Isengard with Saruman and an army of Orcs at you disposal and as you progress you will fight your way from sacking a Rohan village to destroying Minas Tirith itself.
When you start a battle, whether it be campaign or skirmish, you will have a camp or castle where you can build your army to march on your enemies. If you build a military building, then it will upgrade, but only if you have recruited the sufficient amount of soldiers from it.
During a battle there are objectives and bonus objectives. The bonus objectives aren't really that important but they get you extra points.
So if you like real-time battles where you command troops from Lord of the Rings where you can be good or evil, hop on the back of the nearest Nazgul and get this game!

Great game for any movie or rts lover

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The first great thing about this game is its brilliant adaptation of the movie. Everything is precise and accurate. Another great thing is the graphics. Skirmish mode could use some work but campaign mode is simply amazing. It allows you to fight at helms deep, the black gate, minas tirith, and other famous battles from the movies. Your armys continue on from each mission let you build their experience. This may not be a ground breaking rts game, but its one that you can play for a long time and enjoy it.

Worth buying two copies!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Our family bought The Battle for Middle Earth as soon as it was available rather than waiting for Santa to bring it. As other reviewers have noted, the sound, graphics and interface are second to none! This would be fun for any lover of RTS (not just LOTR fans.) We enjoyed it immensely for about a week, but with three teens in the family it was hard to take turns! Since we have multiple PCs in the house with decent graphics cards we wanted to try the game on Multiplayer on our home network, rather than just playing strangers online. So we did the unthinkable, and ordered another copy (we've never bought two copies of the same game before). It's so worth it! The LAN play is so fun! The rest of the family watches as two of us battle- good against evil. It's like watching a movie, without knowing how it ends. Flawless performance on the network, no glitches. For those of you who think you can just copy the game, don't try it. You have to have a separate serial number (license) for each copy of the game you install on the network. Even if you could copy it, it wouldn't do you any good, other than as a back up. Very clever of EA games! I guess those guys have to make a living. But the game is so good, they deserve getting the extra money. We may even buy a third copy pretty soon! Even if you can't afford two copies, you MUST get ONE right now, and at least play online (single player mode is really fun too)! And with Amazon's speedy shipping, you won't have to wait long. Thanks Amazon!

Well this just works for Me

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've now been playing this game for about a month now and let me tell you, this game has struck a good nerve. I went out searching for other games in it's gerne you the names AOM - Roman Empire - and so on and so on. Well Age of empire was fun, but I found myself having to mico-manage alittle to much for my liking. Although fun at time, I just don't have the time to sit there and build farmer and hunter all day long. I did like the game play in Lord of the Rings (LOTR) You could just dive right in. The mapping is all eye candy, I enjoy the fact that the hereoes all can do different thing. I think there is just the right amount of different troops to choose from. The animation looks great. The sounds make you feel a part of the movie. He enjoy this game I know I do.

The Good and Bad

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: January 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Before I jump into the good and bad, understand this is a excellent game.
GOOD:
-The graphics show everything you know about middle earth and bring it to life.
-On windows XP, it loads quickly
-Good control over soldiers
-You can fight TONS of battles
-The world map is AWSOME!
-The heroes of middle earth are excellent and fun to play as
-The heroes can be revived if they die
BAD:
-After like 20 battles it gets a little old
-Can be REALLY hard on easy mode
-Some battles take an hour-and a -half on how you use strategy.
-If you get attacked with a shortage of soldiers, your dead!

Summary:
Overall this game is one of the best games of 2004. I would highly recommend it for LOTR fans. My personal favorite mission was Helm's Deep.

The Battle for Middle-earth

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: June 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

EA has really blown away the minds of myself and buddies with this one. TBFME is a great addition to any RTS collection. Although, as others have said the population capacities can get kind of annoying, but, fortunately there are files you can download (google cheats for The Battle for Middle-earth) with wich you can modify population limits and even unit's health and speed. Anyway, the in-game interface is very well set-up, though it does limit the control you have over your units. The units are very well designed and the heros are done fairly accurate to the movie trilogy. But, as with every game it has flaws, such as Boromir doesn't die at Amon Hen, Gandalf survives Moria, and you can only control 4 Nazgul at any one time. The battles are trully recreated (if you have the files I spoke of earlier) and the structures and units/heros are truly desinged to be true to the movies. The former reviewer said that they added new music, but if you listen carefully while watching the movies you will hear all the music from the game. You can play as Rohan who focuses on cavalry but has infantry like Elven Warriors wich can toggle between bow and sword, Gondor who focuses on infantry(Gondor Soldiers, Tower Guard, Archers, and Rangers) and is the only good race with siege weapons(trebuchets), Isengard who balances fairly well between Warg Riders and Uruk-hai, or Mordor wich can train Soldiers of Rhun(Easterlings), Haradrim,Orc Warriors, Orc Archers, Trolls, and various weapons of war, each with their own specific strategies. But if you are a gamer who would like to study these strategies the guide will be of use. This is definitely one of my favorite RTS games of all time, yes, better than Warcraft! And mae govannen melloni to all of you.

Very good RTS. Almost exactly like the movie.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: January 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

When I first got this game, I thought it would be like any other RTS game. I was wrong. Units come in five, so that is very handy when going into big battles, unlike other RTS's where you have to build one unit after another. Game play is pretty good, kinda choppy and slow, but its not like it's a BLIZZARD game like Warcraft or Starcraft. Graphics are AWESOME, and the little DVD skits are pretty cool also. It's a well developed game and I can't wait until the 2nd one comes into play.

well done EA!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: April 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this game is a very intuitive game (literaly). Every five minutes you are controling some explosion or conflict. if you want to stop reading goahead and miss the evaluation

eccelent.
*all sides have their own ways to strategise
*the units will obey but may retor. units have lots of emotes
*if your hero dies he will be ressurectes for 1/3 the original price.
*there are destructive powerful units for each side: Rohan; ents Gondor; mobile and imoble catapults Isenguard; trols Mordor; immoble Catapults, Mumakil (giant elephants with spiked tusks) and trolls

not so excelent.
*limeted number of troops

the heros are: Rohan; Aragorn Gimli Legolas Eomer Eyown Merry and Theoden Gondor Pippen Faramir Boromir and Gandalf Isenguard; Sauruman Lurtz and Wormtounge Mordor; Gothmog and the 9 on fell beasts.

overall well done EA for making us "chalenge everything" with this game

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