GAME STUDIO DESCRIPTION: Experience Middle-earth like never before in The Lord of the Rings™, The Battle for Middle-earth™, the first The Lord of the Rings game that puts you in command of the heroes and armies of Middle-earth. Control the legendary heroes, massive armies, and epic campaigns based upon all three films of The Lord of the Rings™ trilogy.
Whether choosing to command the forces of good or evil, PC gamers are in complete control of the epic campaigns depicted in all three films of the trilogy. More than faceless units, every character in the game expresses real-time emotions that change depending on their situation-watch your swordsmen tremble with fear as they nerve themselves to face advancing Trolls and feel their exultation as they celebrate a hard-fought victory.
Building on a highly advanced version of the acclaimed Sage 3D game engine first used in Command & Conquer™ Generals, The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth allows you to command both the forces of light or darkness. You’ll have to choose your forces wisely, since each army has its own unique strengths and weaknesses. The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth offers a truly memorable entertainment experience: the first RTS game that brings an entire world to life.
Whether you seek the One Ring or seek to destroy it, the fate of Middle-earth is in your hands.
Key Features
Fight the epic, sweeping battles from the Academy Award-winning The Lord of the Rings™ film trilogy from a whole new perspective-as commander of hundreds of soldiers and creatures.
Control massive armies and interactive battlefields across the vast world of Middle-earth.
Lead the forces of good or evil by controlling one of four unique groups, from the Riders of Rohan to the forces of Sauron, each with its own playing style, resource management, and base-building techniques.
Take command of strategic territories across a highly detailed, 3D map of Middle-earth and turn the tide in the battle to control The One Ring.
Forge new heroes, customize their abilities and powers, then lead them into battle where they’ll gain experience and rank in their quest for victory.
Watch your armies come to life as they express emotion-from anger to fear to triumph-when reacting to events and their surroundings.
Make smarter and faster decisions in the heat of battle with an all-new intuitive, streamlined interface that gives you contextual control of your forces and structures.
Challenge fellow rulers online in multiplayer battles.
PLAY: A 3D map encompasses all of Middle-Earth that gives you a chance to overview this world. You must decide where to fight and perhaps protect. You can control a few armies to control and play in real time. Once the battle is won you start some place else doing the exact same thing. Armies grow stronger with experience which makes them even harder to stop.
The armies are based on those from the film; Rohan, Gondor, Mordor, and Isengard. They are like they movie counterparts and add to the excitement of the game. What sets these armies apart are the upgrade in weapons and emotions. Emotions have to do with your armies moral. The higher the moral the better your troops fight. If the moral is low they might run away from a fight that they aren’t necessarily losing leaving you vulnerable.
One issue is that the battles are extremely large and hard to maintain anything more than overpowering the other troops. In other games even an army that is half the size can destroy the larger simply because of skills and method of attack—not here.
GRAPHICS: The graphics are top notch and well rendered in real time. However if you have a system that doesn’t meet the recommended system resources the graphics may not live up to expectations. There is an extensive amount of detail from the large battles to single fights.
SOUND: The voice acting is astonishing. Many of the actors lend their voices; Elijah Wood, McKellen, Lee, Sean Astin, etc. The score is magnificent. The sound effects rival those from the movie.
FRANKLY: The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth is a gigantic game that will offer a phenomenal amount of gameplay. The fact that you can control Mordor or Isengard makes it even more intriguing as you can change the entire ending.
+ Richie Wright
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