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The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth Review (continued)
More User Submitted The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth Reviews
Date: 2006-01-14
You won't be sorry
When I look for an RTS such as Battle for Middle Earth I look for 4 things. I look at the Story Line, the Online Play, the Free Play Mode outside Story Mode, and the overall enjoyment of the game play. I found that Battle for Middle Earth (BME) had top scores in all of these areas.
The Story Mode of the game follows the events that happen in the Movie Trilogy. You'll lead the Fellowship through Moria and Protect Lothlorian from attack. Of Course you play through the epic battles at Helm's Deep and Minas Tirith but you also find yourself leading Sam through Shelob's layer to a funal showdown against the Giant Spider. The seige fights are the moat fun part of story mode. As the good guys you have a certain amount of time to build up defenses around your walls and gather resources for kater when Isengard or Mordor arrives. When the enemy comes you must survive a certain amount of time before reinforcements come and help. Either way it's very fun.
The free play mode has the tools to let you customize your game to your liking. YOu can choose to play as Rohan, Gondor, Isengard, or Mordor. There are multiple maps to choose from and each map has a certain number of teams that can play at once. These games let your hone your skills to help in storhy mode or just for something fun to do when your bored and don't want to play Story mode.
Online play is fun, easy to signup for, and also gives you a chance to play against human intelligence. Play against people online in free mode style play when you get tired of beating the computer all the time and need another challenge.
Basically BME is a great RTS with all around good gameplay. The different unit skills and buildings flow nicely and the construction system is easy to learn and easy to use. The combat looks nice and the traditional point and click RTS controls are still present. If you have the money to buy the game and you like RTS style game and the Lord of the Rings movies, play this game and you can control the characters in all the epic battles seen in the Movies.
Date: 2006-01-09
Not a Stradegy Game its a pathetic piece of (...)
First things first if you want a good RTS get Empire Earth 2 or 1 either way there both vantastic
This game is just dumb its cool that its Lord of the Rings there vantastic movies but so far every game has stunk in this game when your Gondor or Rohan you get a max pop of 200 men and thats against one other person with 4 you get 150 for those who dont know what a pop is its how many soliders you can have you can not defend your base and atack and have a big battle when you only get that much when Mordor or Isenguard 400 against 1 other person now thats an improvement but you get no walls oh yeah and each siege weopon for each team takes up 5 pop points and trolls take up 10 ents take up 20! thats just pathetic.and the special power stuff is dumb You can only build were theres some sort of base type thing
For those who want huge epic battles and want to make huge cities and forts get EE2
Date: 2006-01-03
Very good RTS. Almost exactly like the movie.
When I first got this game, I thought it would be like any other RTS game. I was wrong. Units come in five, so that is very handy when going into big battles, unlike other RTS's where you have to build one unit after another. Game play is pretty good, kinda choppy and slow, but its not like it's a BLIZZARD game like Warcraft or Starcraft. Graphics are AWESOME, and the little DVD skits are pretty cool also. It's a well developed game and I can't wait until the 2nd one comes into play.
Date: 2006-01-02
To Mordor
When I got this game for Christmas, I thought Dawn of War would be better. When I played Battle for Middle-Earth, I stopped playing Dawn of War. Once I found out about how to play, I liked it a lot!
I am very good at playing the Battle for Middle Earth. I like that you can summon Balrog by getting twenty experience and other experience to get upgrades. Now, maybe I can play one of you on multiple player!!!
By Kristian Stewart, age 9
Date: 2005-12-10
Good, although shallow, RTS
Battle for Middle Earth is a fun game, but it is a short-lived experience because the game is ultimately shallow with regard to strategy. This tends to make each successive battle too similar to the previous, which causes tedium relatively quickly.
For one thing, the technology tree, if you can call it that, is virtually non-existent. Your structures must mature or "level" through sustained use before certain technologies or units become available, but that is the extent of the evolution. This is compensated somewhat by the requirement of applying each technology to your units or structures individually--they are not applied automatically by virtue of having been researched as in most other RTS games--but this still does not provide much diversity.
Secondly, I can find no use for infantry, the bread and butter of most strategy games. Aside from the occasional specialty troop, such as the pikemen, infantry are far overshadowed by cavalry and archers. Every map in the campaign can be beaten more easily with an army based on cavalry and archers than one with wasted space used on infantry, and this is true of all factions. In fact, on medium difficulty I cleared every map using fully-upgraded archers almost exclusively.
However, for the short amount of time it holds your attention (in my case, two weeks) it can be engrossing. The fact that your untis level and have their battle statistics tracked throughout the game is a good feature. It does, however, point out the unbalance towards cavalry and archers as most holdover batallions from mission to mission will be these types.
Also, Evenstar and One Ring powers are an excellent addition to the arsenal. In fact, when and how these powers are used are usually the deciding factors in how a battle plays out.
In short, I gave this game four stars because there are enough innovations to warrant it, the graphics are well done and the game is virtually bug and lag free. But I do not believe this game will take up space on your hard drive for too long.
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