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Be a Middle-earth general

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

A lot of work obviously went into this, this is especially evident in the campaign taking the Fellowship through all the stages of the book. My one complaint is the mini-map (a Palantir, of course!) which shows everything indistinctly, or at times, no troops appear at all. Not a good situation to lose track of troops, or worse yet, of heros. The heros are an important part, as are the upgrades, and it's such fun to do a lightening sword shot with Gandalf. Well worth the $10 it cost...

Not sophisticated but fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

That pretty much says it all. The graphics are nice and the two good and evil campaigns were fun. The game is a little simplistic, however. The on-line feature doesn't interest me so, once you play through each campaign, you're done. No real long-term playability. For the price though, it was a good buy.

Recommended.

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!

The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth is a grand little game that is based on the lotr movie series. The gameplay is fun and action packed. The graphics are great and the special powers astounding. Ok...so why do you just give it 4 stars? Well there are some issues that I have with this game. For instance, having to buy special powers for every new scenario is tedious at best and boring at worst. In the begining it is way to time consuming and only in later missions does the pace pick up. There are to few heroes as well. Where is Galadriel and where is Tom Bombadil? Even so this is a great game but for number 3 they can make some adjustments to make a great game even better.

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.

Slightly different RTS

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is very well done and true to the LOTR saga. It is not a step-by-step repetition of the story, of course, but overall you get the feel. However, in the end it is just another RTS.

An interesting feature is that you keep your army from battle to battle. If you take good care of it, you can have a respectable force formed by hardy veterans with all the upgrades available.

At first I didn't like the lack of variety of troops for each faction, but later I realized that it is true to the saga. Why are there no dwarves for instance, only Gimli? I asked. Well, in the book/movie Gimli was the only dwarf involved in the War of the Ring. In the game Rohan is mostly about cavalry (riders). Well that is because in LOTR Rohan is practically riders and nothing else!

Excellent game. Thoroughly enjoyed by 10 and 13 year old boys.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

A great game that follows Lord of the Rings trilogy almost perfectly. Kids who have read the books or seen the movies will especially enjoy this game.

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!

Outstanding game! Must Have for LOTR Fans.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is a very fun real time strategy game based off the LOTR movies. The battles are fun, challenging, and accurate representations of how I imagined them from the books and films. As a fan of both real time strategy games and a huge LOTR fan I really enjoyed the game.

THE BEST COMPUTER GAME EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is the best computer game I have ever played.
Pros:graphics are good,you get lots of heroes on good story,on skirmish you can build huge army's,you can get lots of awesome powers.
Bads:people are slow,Mordor has no castle,it takes a while to load sometimes,it's hard to get points like to summon the Barlog or Army of the dead.Over all it's a awesome game and its worth every penny.Hope this helped you.

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