The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  172 reviews
Sales Rank: 2735
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Jewel Case
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.7
MPN: 14744
UPC: 014633147445
EAN: 0014633147445
ASIN: B00026ENLE
Release Date: December 6, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Cd's only, ships First Class.
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| Features:
| • | 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 | | • | Single player and online massively multiplayer modes |
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Product Description
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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| Customer Reviews: Read 167 more reviews...
 BFME November 13, 2008
"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!) by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Pros:
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)
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!)
Pretty Much Faithful to the Films and Book (it follows the plotline almost exactly but, like any game, doesn't perfectly)
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:
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)
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)
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.
Be a Middle-earth general June 15, 2008
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. My one complaint is the mini-map (a Palantir, of course!) 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. 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...
 Not sophisticated but fun June 2, 2008
That pretty much says it all. The graphics are nice and the two good and evil campaigns were fun. The game is a little simplistic, however. The on-line feature doesn't interest me so, once you play through each campaign, you're done. No real long-term playability. For the price though, it was a good buy.
Recommended.
The Battles Of Middle Earth Really Are In Your Hands! November 14, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I first picked up this game, I was skeptical of slogan- Middle Earth Is In Your Hands. 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. 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.
My opinion, however, did a complete 180 when I was put into Rohan. When I first set up the camp, I immedietly knew that this game was different. 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. 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.
The one thing I do have a problem with is the scale. The sixes of these battles are very downscale. Helms Deep is 250 against like 1,000. Unlike in the movie when it's like 5,000 against 10,000. Same goes for Minas Tirith. the ighest is like 600 for the good guys, and about 1,000 bad guys.
Another thing that I didn't like was the cheap way you could win battles. The hugest one was Minas Tirith. Don't want to bother wasting you time defending the gate? Retreat everyone of your 300 archers to the second level. Want to avoid catapult fire? Retreat to a corner to defend from. Every single one of your people died except a hero? Hide in a corner until Aragorn comes. Things like these almost suck the strategy out the game. If you are a crappy commander and easily outnumbered, you should lose, not have a hero hiding in the bushes until the heros come. 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.
I overall, think this game is just about for any gamer!
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth June 10, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth is a grand little game that is based on the lotr movie series. The gameplay is fun and action packed. The graphics are great and the special powers astounding. Ok...so why do you just give it 4 stars? Well there are some issues that I have with this game. For instance, having to buy special powers for every new scenario is tedious at best and boring at worst. In the begining it is way to time consuming and only in later missions does the pace pick up. There are to few heroes as well. Where is Galadriel and where is Tom Bombadil? Even so this is a great game but for number 3 they can make some adjustments to make a great game even better.
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