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Gets better & better

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Expands on LOTR Battle For Middle Earth by expanding the capabilities of the original, including the ability to create Heroes from a variety of races with a large variety of powers. Battle For Middle Earth 2 is pretty difficult compared to the original, but my 13 year old has mastered it and loves it for it's creating capabilities. The last episode is Rise Of The Witch King which is exciting, has great graphics, and a cast of characters new and a few familiar.

I have never been much of a fan of RPG before (Role Playing Games), but I have really had lots of fun with this LOTR Anthology. It is great fun and never ceases to challenge and frustrate. All in all - 5 starts

A passable RTS at a reasonable price

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This set is really a collection of two games (the first and second LOTR games, along with the expansion for the second game) with some bonus features, which mainly consist of interviews with various game developers. For the price (I got it when it was 30 dollars, and it's even cheaper now), this is a pretty good deal if you are an LOTR and/or RTS fan.

As far as RTSes go, this is an average game. It's not as polished as Blizzard's RTSes, for example, but the gameplay is reasonably interesting, being roughly based on a rock-paper-scissors model. There is little micromanagement to speak of, with the game mostly being concerned with strategic management. This is a double-edged sword, since micromanagement can be frustrating to more casual players, but makes the game less challenging for better players. There are some pretty substantial issues with the UI and visual design of the game, as well.

Really, the main draw of this game is the fact that it takes place in the world of the Lord of the Rings, and that much of the game directly draws from the movies. Images, brief movie clips, and voices are all from Peter Jackson's films. The campaigns are roughly based on events not just from the films, but from battles only briefly mentioned in the books. (For example, BoME2 is based on the War in the North, while the expansion is based on the Witch-King's rise in Angmar and his destruction of the human kingdoms in Eriador.)

This game is a good buy if you're looking for an RTS based on the Lord of the Rings, but don't expect a stellar gameplay experience. If you're interested in getting a great RTS for the same price, I would recommend Starcraft, but if you're interested in commanding armies in Middle-Earth, this game is the way to go. I don't think a purchase like this would be justified for 50 dollars unless you were a hardcore fan, but at 20 dollars the price is solid.

Hot Ring of Gold

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 18
Date: July 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game looks like its a lot of fun.
It's much easier to buy together than separately.
It should prove to be hours of entertainment.

lord of the rings battle for middle earth 2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: May 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

good game allot different from the first 1 but still good game would recommend

My kids and I love these games!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

We multiplayer with and against each other and have a blast doing it... My sons and I are huge fans of the LOTR series and these RTS games are the most enjoyed and most played in my house....

... for those concerned about Vista OS compatability, we have had no issues. We solo and multi on two vista and one xp computers without any issues.

No pause - so it's Real-Time but there isn't much Strategy

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: April 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have no idea why anyone who produces an RTS wouldn't provide a pause key enabling you to select units reliably and issue orders. Perhaps EA do, because they didn't. Or maybe they just forgot.

Sadly, although it looks okay and has the right franchise, I'm not a big fan of playing games where the key to success is picking out the right pixel to select an archer out of a scrum of two hundred scrapping soldiers. Or leaping from one battle to another with uncannily accurate clicks on a crappy minimap.

If those two are either beyond you or not your idea of fun, you probably want to try the Total War series or something.

Beware laptop users!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: October 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game to play on my alienware laptop, which i thought could handle almost anything. it has no trouble with rome: total war, but for BFME2, it just is no fun. the game constantly loses track of the cursor so that the cursor icon freezes on the screen, making it almost impossible to do anything. EA was helpful in troubleshooting, but in the end they told me this game was not tested for laptops. so beware!

not for vista

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

use to play this game in my old Vaio pc with windows xp fun everytime BUT for windows vista the only think you can do its use it as cupholder nothing happens I already have tried all the ways for compatibility and nothing customers services...never answer to but for ea games has one less customer.

Great games in a nicely priced bundle.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: October 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have been waiting quite some time for these to be bundled together at a good price. It's still a bit high right now, but it's a good start. A much more sensible bundle than when they bundled it with Black and White.

Friends of mine swear that these games are massively better than all the games in related genres like the Warcraft games. They play them online all weekend long and I have yet to see one crash which is a rare thing itself in the games world these days.

I like it so much I am going to post a link on some chat pages so people can purchase it via our affiliate program for The Realms of Legend castle project. I'd post it here but I don't think you are allowed to.

Vista Users Beware ..........

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 14
Date: February 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have a Vista OS and have been able to play many RTS games under this system (sometimes with tweaks) but not this set of games. After trying many different things and calling tech support twice I had to give up. I could not get it to run under my Vista OS. I gave the game 4 stars for fun (which it is under XP) but only 1 overall because of the lack of support for a newer OS. When I asked tech support whether I was alone with my problem, they said "No". When asked whether they would ever work on getting it to run under Vista, I was told "that they did not know". Shame on EA for such shortsightedness.

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