Battle For Middle Earth 2 Screenshots

Franchise games sells well, even if they are nothing good...

Where are the billions soldiers facing the billions monsters? I only saw maybe 100 at most.

Shovelware for middle earth.

GG.

Spend years creating a fantastic middle earth RTS game to take on WC3 head-to-head, A game that gamers will enjoy for depth, attention to detail and variety???!? NO CHANCE

EA prefer to...

shovel out many different RTS games, all incredibly simple/straighforward, each being forgotten about in a matter of weeks. Hope that some people are dumb enough to buy all of them. Sure they look graphically ok. But I'd much rather a game that care has been taken on in every aspect. Blizzard and and to a lesser extent Ensemble understand this.

I used to get mad at people complaing about EA, but BF2: Special Forces was the final straw. They are the antithesis of valve or blizzard. They have no interest in making detailed, well crafted or deep games. Everything is just "good enough to constitute being a release" Everything they do now plays like it was created by people under a bull whip. Sure it works and functions, but it's just "good enough." There is no "art" in their game design.

I'd love to know if all of these middle earth RTS games combined made as much money as WC3. I bet they won't. It wont even be close. Cowardly business decision that wont pay off.

BFME2k6 already?

Questions:

1. Will this game have more unit and structure build options?
2. Will base building/fortification be more open (build where you want)
3. Will the game have a online campaign mode?

Some of the screenshots show the biggest docks I have ever seen! Let's just get the whole army out there.

Otherwise, looks good.

I wonder if this one will be filled with bugs also.

Ehh, I hate saying bad things about a game, but man the first one was a turd. Sure it looked great, but it was just boring. The filler missions outside of Moria, Helms deep, Minas Tirith were just a drag.

I really don't expect much from EA as I feel most of their games suck. I have more faith in Empire At War being a good game than I do BFME 2.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/starwarsrts/news.html?sid=6140634&page=1

http://www.lucasarts.com/games/swempireatwar/indexFlash.html



EA needs to learn pretty games don't make fun games.

Is that a cow I hear being milked?

...

Or is that a dead horse that I hear being beaten?

loved the first one, hella excited about the next. these screens are sweeeeeeet

i still play the first one every single day online.

sure, playing against the computer gets dry and stale after a while, i can take on 7 hard armies by myself and beat them all with every army

but playing online against other people with leadership stacking and such really takes skill - this game is quality, no matter what anybody says.

I remember last year I got this game for my PC for Xmas and I actually stopped playing WoW for 4 weeks b/c I couldnt stop playing it. I know its not the most complicated RTS, but man its production value is so high and epic like the movies. So awesome....

I can see them making one of these...but two? I'm obviously missing something because having this story told over and over again doesn't really appeal to me.

Well, I'm sure this one will be aimed at the hardcore RTS crowd with its "build anywhere / do anything" approach.

I liked the simplicity of BFME 1, and the tie-in's to all the epic battles in the movies. It really helped me get my RTS feet wet.

BFME 2 is understandably the next step in the evolution of the franchise. By adding more complexity and freedom to do whatever it will be a totally different experiece. Unfortunately, an experience fans of the first game may not have really wanted.

I will need to see this one before i believe it looks that good.

The screens (and hype) of the first one made me buy it. And goddamn, that game was ugly and very poor in the gameplay department.

That looks purty....

for the casual rts'er like me, this one was more up my alley so i'm looking forward to this one, hopefully the testing team does a stand up job on it so it's balanced and fun and not as big ridden as the first one, where it took half a year for a patch to come out..

BFME2: The Return of the return of the king of the ring thing (hey Vern, nowutimean?)