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Limited Growth

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: March 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game provides no growth as far as building buildings or upgrading your armies. You can play each civ once and be bored. The way you use each civ is the same, they do not have unique attributes beyond naming the armies and buildings something different. I guess if I never was to play an rts I would like it, but since i have games like Rise of Nations, etc. to compare it against it falls very short. If you like lord of the rings and have bought all of the other games, then by all means go out and buy this one, but if you like a good rts this is not one of them. BTW: One resource to collect, and about 8 units to build, it even sounds boring:)

Not a Stradegy Game its a pathetic piece of (...)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 22
Date: January 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First things first if you want a good RTS get Empire Earth 2 or 1 either way there both vantastic

This game is just dumb its cool that its Lord of the Rings there vantastic movies but so far every game has stunk in this game when your Gondor or Rohan you get a max pop of 200 men and thats against one other person with 4 you get 150 for those who dont know what a pop is its how many soliders you can have you can not defend your base and atack and have a big battle when you only get that much when Mordor or Isenguard 400 against 1 other person now thats an improvement but you get no walls oh yeah and each siege weopon for each team takes up 5 pop points and trolls take up 10 ents take up 20! thats just pathetic.and the special power stuff is dumb You can only build were theres some sort of base type thing

For those who want huge epic battles and want to make huge cities and forts get EE2

A sad sad excuse for an rts

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 17
Date: July 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Oh my what a dissapointment for one thing the max pop is 200 with 2 people playing and and with people playing its 150 i spent the whole game trying to save up for enough reasources trying to make a good army but i cant really breach the enemys castle with 150 guys the game lags in campaign and the charcters in the game dont even sound like they do in the movie why dont all u RTS fanns go to the mall walk past BFME and pick up Empire Earth2 now thats a real RTS and thats max pop is 2000 and its got better graphics

Several copies have flaw on disk 2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 18
Date: December 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The game might be great, but my copy had a CRC error on PC CD version, disc#2. Now I found out that dozens are reporting exactly the same error all over the world: file big_movie_with_alpha.vp6 cannot be copied. I tried 2 different machines and 3 different CD-Rom drives (one of them external) and the same problem. It seems to me that there was a big flaw at the disc production line. Yet, I'm quite dissapointed at EA game support, they just tell everybody to shut down background process and IF trouble persist, ship the discs back for a replacement. So, be aware to spend a little bit more for discs replacement in case you become the lucky owner of a deffective copy of the game (even with warranty you have to pay the first shipment), and if you are an overseas customer it might cost near as much as you paid for the game itself.

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.

WARNING - DO NOT BUY A USED GAME

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 14
Date: February 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Warning, if you buy a used copy of the game and it has been registered, you will not be able to play multiplayer.

Only buy a used copy of the game if you want to play with yourself.

I bought one copy at full price. I bought a second copy used to put on a second computer to play against my nephew. I called Electronic Arts and they said they could do nothing. I need to buy a new game, unless I pay them $10.00 for a new key so I can use my second copy, which I already paid for.

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.

Wrong System Info!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 14
Date: January 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The Amazon website says this product will work with Windows 98; however, it does not! I ordered it as a gift and when it arrived, the system information is different than listed online so unfortunately, the gift recipient cannot use it. It requires at least Windows 2000. I also wrote back to Amazon asking to have the information on the website corrected so others would not encounter the same problem. I see that hasn't changed either.

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.

High System Requirements

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: May 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Be aware that this game has higher than usual system requirements, which are not described on this site, the official EA site or on the packaging. According to EA Games, you must have the following hardware and software to run the game:

Windows XP (32 bit version) with Administrator rights.
1.7 GHz or faster processor.
512 MB or more RAM.
Supported 128 MB video card with the newest manufacturer drivers.
CD Version, 8x or faster CD/DVD drive.
DVD version, 8x or faster DVD drive.
2.3 GB free hard disk space plus space for the Windows swap file and save data.

I found this out the hard way. Despite the fact that I couldn't find the system requirements listed anywhere, I bought the game assuming it would work on Windows 2000 (as described on this web page) with the equipment and software that I have. All the other recently released games I've purchased work fine. The game installed properly but crashed when I tried to play it, and the patch wouldn't work, so I contacted customer support. The only tech support EA offers is e-mail based, so it can be very time consuming and quite frustrating, since the customer service representatives don't seem to know very much and just quote from a manual. After weeks of updating drivers, deleting registry files and installing/uninstalling the game about 20 times, the tech support people finally announced that my computer does not meet system requirements, which they provided (see above). The game might be good, but make sure it will run on your computer BEFORE you buy it, or you'll be out the cost of the game plus S&H, because Amazon won't take it back.

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