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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 constantly. You have to coordinate attacks on a number of different fronts with multiple unit types or you will not succeed. You can not just sit back in you base and destroy your enemy with special attacks like you could in Command and Conquer Generals. This game is highly energetic and fast-paced. The different factions (i.e. Rohan, Gondor, Isenguard, and Mordor)are well balanced and each has its own unique strengths and weaknesses. This game, however, is not quite perfect. First of all, you need to have a really good computer just to run it. Also, a lot of the mission objectives can be repetative. Most of the time, you just go in and kill everyone as quickly as possible. The epic sounding voices of the heroes can get old after a while too. I have heard some say that they believe that Gandalf is too powerful. I disagree with this. In fact, if anything, Gandalf was not powerful enough in the movies (the fact that Jackson thinks that Gandalf could not stand up to the Witch King would be laughable if it was not so disappointing). Gandalf killed a Balrog! Sauron, for lack of a better description, is a Balrog (the Silmarillion). Gandalf and Sauron are polar opposites; therefore, it makes sense for Gandalf to be more powerful than everyone else. Besides, his power is offset by the almost unreasonable amount of money require to recruit him.