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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: 2006-06-10
Command all the soldiers from Lord of the Rings from Rohan peasants to Nazgul
Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth is a great game. Battle on familiar landscapes such as Osgiliath, Minas Tirith, Helm's Deep, and more! Command troops ranging from Gondor knights to Mumukil, and hero units from Aragorn to Saruman.
In this game, there are two types of gameplay: Campaign and Skirmish. Skirmish is just a short battle pitting two teams against each other. Campaign is more interesting, you can play the Good Campaign and the Evil Campaign. In the Good Campaign, you start off in Moria with the entire Fellowship at your command and as you progress you will fight in famous battles like Helm's Deep where you will defend the fortress from Saruman.
And in the Evil Campaign you start in Isengard with Saruman and an army of Orcs at you disposal and as you progress you will fight your way from sacking a Rohan village to destroying Minas Tirith itself.
When you start a battle, whether it be campaign or skirmish, you will have a camp or castle where you can build your army to march on your enemies. If you build a military building, then it will upgrade, but only if you have recruited the sufficient amount of soldiers from it.
During a battle there are objectives and bonus objectives. The bonus objectives aren't really that important but they get you extra points.
So if you like real-time battles where you command troops from Lord of the Rings where you can be good or evil, hop on the back of the nearest Nazgul and get this game!
Date: 2006-06-01
Best LOTR game ever made
The Battle for middle earth game (BFME) is by far, hands down, the very best LOTR game ever made. The graphics are beautiful and the characters are the best. I do not own the game, but I play it ALL the time. Any time I get the chance, I play, research strategies, and I foud some fun codes. A code to unlock sauron as a character is MASTEROFTHERING, you can type this anytime, and a way to exceed the command point limit is you type in james, and a way to get 1000 resources anytime is to type in MORIAMITHRIL and , I haven't tried it yet but I think a way to unlock Darth Vader and some storm trooper is to push controll alt and the letter s at the same time. I hope you enjoy this game as much as I do. I totally recomend this game to everyone, especially LOTR fans
Date: 2006-05-21
High System Requirements
Be aware that this game has higher than usual system requirements, which are not described on this site, the official EA site or on the packaging. According to EA Games, you must have the following hardware and software to run the game:
Windows XP (32 bit version) with Administrator rights.
1.7 GHz or faster processor.
512 MB or more RAM.
Supported 128 MB video card with the newest manufacturer drivers.
CD Version, 8x or faster CD/DVD drive.
DVD version, 8x or faster DVD drive.
2.3 GB free hard disk space plus space for the Windows swap file and save data.
I found this out the hard way. Despite the fact that I couldn't find the system requirements listed anywhere, I bought the game assuming it would work on Windows 2000 (as described on this web page) with the equipment and software that I have. All the other recently released games I've purchased work fine. The game installed properly but crashed when I tried to play it, and the patch wouldn't work, so I contacted customer support. The only tech support EA offers is e-mail based, so it can be very time consuming and quite frustrating, since the customer service representatives don't seem to know very much and just quote from a manual. After weeks of updating drivers, deleting registry files and installing/uninstalling the game about 20 times, the tech support people finally announced that my computer does not meet system requirements, which they provided (see above). The game might be good, but make sure it will run on your computer BEFORE you buy it, or you'll be out the cost of the game plus S&H, because Amazon won't take it back.
Date: 2006-05-17
Helloooo Amazon...this game DOES NOT work on Windows 98!
We read the description...read the reviews...made certain that we were using the correct platform....and...WON'T work on Windows 98! The description says that it does. WRONG!! I'm hoping to get my money back and am very disappointed. Please correct this before someone else has this happen to them.
Date: 2006-04-25
well done EA!
this game is a very intuitive game (literaly). Every five minutes you are controling some explosion or conflict. if you want to stop reading goahead and miss the evaluation
eccelent.
*all sides have their own ways to strategise
*the units will obey but may retor. units have lots of emotes
*if your hero dies he will be ressurectes for 1/3 the original price.
*there are destructive powerful units for each side: Rohan; ents Gondor; mobile and imoble catapults Isenguard; trols Mordor; immoble Catapults, Mumakil (giant elephants with spiked tusks) and trolls
not so excelent.
*limeted number of troops
the heros are: Rohan; Aragorn Gimli Legolas Eomer Eyown Merry and Theoden Gondor Pippen Faramir Boromir and Gandalf Isenguard; Sauruman Lurtz and Wormtounge Mordor; Gothmog and the 9 on fell beasts.
overall well done EA for making us "chalenge everything" with this game
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