The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth is an epic campaigns where the goal is to control all of Middle-Earth! Wage all-out combat against either the forces of good or the armies ofevil, controlling troops and managing resources. The fate of a continent is your hands!
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The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth Reviews
Not Always Faithful to the Films and Book (there's points in the game where it strays from the source material: Boromir doesn't have to die and you can't beat the Moria level until Gandalf defeats the Balrog; I think they could have had a cutscene at the end where Gandalf falls, just like the movie and book). "The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth" is a spectacular game based on the bestselling (and rightfully so) book (not a trilogy). Great Battles (the combat is awesome, running down Uruks as Rohirrim is astounding and Gondor's Tower Guard can make short work of almost anything, especially if they're backed up by fire arrow equipped archers). This is a VERY good real-time strategy game and you should treasure it alongside the likes of The Return of the King and nay other PC Tolkien games you own. Pretty Much Faithful to the Films and Book (it follows the plotline almost exactly but, like any game, doesn't perfectly). Pros:. by J.R.R.
Amazing Graphics (it's REALLY cool to see grass blowing in the wind and to see wolves running around amongst groves of trees: it's sweet). Repetition Can Get Tiring (like I said above, the extra levels that don't have to do with the main plot can get tiring, so much that you may want to skip the last few and just play the Black Gate). HUGE Variety of Units and Levels (there's so many units for each faction that you can get overwhelmed in choosing who to recruit; and the missions are so many you can actually get tired of running down Uruks and Orcs and shooting arrows into trolls). Cons:. Tolkien.
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. 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. 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. My one complaint is the mini-map (a Palantir, of course).
For the price though, it was a good buy. The on-line feature doesn't interest me so, once you play through each campaign, you're done. That pretty much says it all. No real long-term playability. Recommended. The graphics are nice and the two good and evil campaigns were fun. The game is a little simplistic, however.
Things like these almost suck the strategy out the game. I overall, think this game is just about for any gamer. 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. the ighest is like 600 for the good guys, and about 1,000 bad guys. Don't want to bother wasting you time defending the gate.
If you are a crappy commander and easily outnumbered, you should lose, not have a hero hiding in the bushes until the heros come. 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. When I first set up the camp, I immedietly knew that this game was different. The one thing I do have a problem with is the scale.
My opinion, however, did a complete 180 when I was put into Rohan. Helms Deep is 250 against like 1,000. Hide in a corner until Aragorn comes. Every single one of your people died except a hero. Retreat to a corner to defend from. Unlike in the movie when it's like 5,000 against 10,000.
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. 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. Another thing that I didn't like was the cheap way you could win battles. When I first picked up this game, I was skeptical of slogan- Middle Earth Is In Your Hands. The hugest one was Minas Tirith. Want to avoid catapult fire. The sixes of these battles are very downscale.
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. Retreat everyone of your 300 archers to the second level. Same goes for Minas Tirith.
Even so this is a great game but for number 3 they can make some adjustments to make a great game even better. Where is Galadriel and where is Tom Bombadil. Ok.so why do you just give it 4 stars. Well there are some issues that I have with this game.
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth is a grand little game that is based on the lotr movie series. There are to few heroes as well. The graphics are great and the special powers astounding.
In the begining it is way to time consuming and only in later missions does the pace pick up. For instance, having to buy special powers for every new scenario is tedious at best and boring at worst. The gameplay is fun and action packed.
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