The Lord of the Rings Battle for Middle Earth Anthology

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $17.99

Features:

• Lead the forces of good or evil by controlling 4 unique groups, from the Riders of Rohan to the forces of Sauron
• Forge new heroes and customize their abilities and powers -- lead them into battle where they'll gain experience and rank in their quest for victory
• Be amazed as your army expresses emotion - they'll get angry, fearful or triumphant depending on their surroundings
• All-new intuitive, streamlined Interface gives you contextual control of your forces and structures
• Challenge fellow rulers online in massive multiplayerbattles

  Lord of the Rings - Battle For Middle Earth II features -

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Great games in a nicely priced bundle. [Posted on 2007-10-06]
I have been waiting quite some time for these to be bundled together at a good price. It's still a bit high right now, but it's a good start. A much more sensible bundle than when they bundled it with Black and White.

Friends of mine swear that these games are massively better than all the games in related genres like the Warcraft games. They play them online all weekend long and I have yet to see one crash which is a rare thing itself in the games world these days.

I like it so much I am going to post a link on some chat pages so people can purchase it via our affiliate program for The Realms of Legend castle project. I'd post it here but I don't think you are allowed to.

Beware laptop users! [Posted on 2007-10-21]
I bought this game to play on my alienware laptop, which i thought could handle almost anything. it has no trouble with rome: total war, but for BFME2, it just is no fun. the game constantly loses track of the cursor so that the cursor icon freezes on the screen, making it almost impossible to do anything. EA was helpful in troubleshooting, but in the end they told me this game was not tested for laptops. so beware!

Vista Users Beware .......... [Posted on 2008-02-21]
I have a Vista OS and have been able to play many RTS games under this system (sometimes with tweaks) but not this set of games. After trying many different things and calling tech support twice I had to give up. I could not get it to run under my Vista OS. I gave the game 4 stars for fun (which it is under XP) but only 1 overall because of the lack of support for a newer OS. When I asked tech support whether I was alone with my problem, they said "No". When asked whether they would ever work on getting it to run under Vista, I was told "that they did not know". Shame on EA for such shortsightedness.

not for vista [Posted on 2008-04-07]
use to play this game in my old Vaio pc with windows xp fun everytime BUT for windows vista the only think you can do its use it as cupholder nothing happens I already have tried all the ways for compatibility and nothing customers services...never answer to but for ea games has one less customer.

No pause - so it's Real-Time but there isn't much Strategy [Posted on 2008-04-08]
I have no idea why anyone who produces an RTS wouldn't provide a pause key enabling you to select units reliably and issue orders. Perhaps EA do, because they didn't. Or maybe they just forgot.

Sadly, although it looks okay and has the right franchise, I'm not a big fan of playing games where the key to success is picking out the right pixel to select an archer out of a scrum of two hundred scrapping soldiers. Or leaping from one battle to another with uncannily accurate clicks on a crappy minimap.

If those two are either beyond you or not your idea of fun, you probably want to try the Total War series or something.

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