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

Publisher: Electronic Arts
Features:

Single player and online massively multiplayer modes
Real-time strategy game based on the Lord of the Rings film trilogy
Fight on either the side of good or evil by commanding one of four groups
Control massive armies across the vast world of Middle-earth
Create new heroes and customize the abilities and powers

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Hello I am not a complete flammer so I was kind and gave the fun rating of this game a 4 becuase it does have some fun aspects. But do yourselfs a favor and buy rome total war instead.
RTW vs TBFME

RTW
Huge unit scale! Control... more

All chrome and no substance
This game sports impressive visuals and captures the feels of the movie perfectly, but, as a game, it is a total failure. The gameplay is repetitive and boring. The only challenge comes from dealing with the AI of your own units, which has a tendency... more

IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This could be a great game if you could play it. By this I mean you better have one hell of a computer to run the darn thing. I have a 2003 DELL with Pentium 4 and it all most had a stroke try to run it. Your computer needs a Pentum 5, but of corse... more

Limited Growth
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.... more

Great game for any movie or rts lover
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... more

Probably the best Real Time Strategy game to date
This game has excellent graphics and very smooth and simple gameplay. It also manages to follow the storyline of the movies reasonaly well. This game is definatly not for the timid RTS player. To defeat you enemies, you have to keep the pressure on them... more

FULL OF BUGS..WON'T LAUNCH
DON'T BUY THIS GAME. EA Games really botched things up on this one. Look at the game forums..they're rife with people who bought the game yet can't play it because of EA Games' copy protection bug. I bought the game for my son. I don't copy software or... more

Hmmm interesting
This is one of the best computer games i have ever played. If you have enjoyed games like age of empires this is deffinatley the game for you. Online is my favorite part of this game. after playing this game for hours i only found one thing i didnt... more

Fast paced,action packed and the best LOTR game yet
The Battle for Middle Earth has A+ graphics,sound and gameplay. I'll definately give it that. EA Games has made a wise choice by converting the Lord of the Rings Trilogy from RPG to a stradegy game,meaning this game has alot in common with other stradegy... more

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I've been playing RTS games for years. Warcraft 1, 2, 3, Starcraft, Settlers, etc..

This game ranks in the top 3 "best RTS ever made".
Make sure you've got a good graphics card because my Radeon 9700 Pro & P4 2.53Ghz barely handled... more

Beautiful but Stupid
The game looks great, however the single player campaigns quickly grow tiresome. Online play suffers from EA's peer to peer model, players often disconnect to avoid a loss online resulting in a frustrating waste of a half hour of your life. If you don't... more

A genuinely cinematic RTS experience
LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth is a game that largely succeeds in capturing the epic scope, look, and feel of the Peter Jackson movies. It is not without flaws, but these are forgivable and easily overlooked when you get into the heart of the action. My... more

Brett T.C.F.U
This gameoverall is a great game. The graphics are a 10 out of 10. The only problem is if your computer isn't that fast you shouldn't get this because it will take to long to load and your computer will lag all the time while in gameplay. My computer... more

2D BATTLES... huh?
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... more

Unbelievable. should own its own part of heaven.
Battle for Middle is a definite must-get for all Lord of the Rings fans.I think best part of this game are the missions. I still haven't finished them all- I'm still working on the Black Gate- but I can definitly say that is one of the neatest RTS games... more

A little left of heaven
This game is almost perfect with a few flaws. First and the most obvious is the pop cap. With good you can only have 150 and evil 300. This means you won't be seeing 200,000 orcs at Minas Tirith. Also Mordor is weaker, the orcs are not good. In the movies... more

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