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Battle For Middle Earth 2 GONE GOLD
by Maarten Goldstein, Feb 14, 2006 1:58pm PSTEA today announced that their Lord of the Rings strategy game sequel Battle for Middle-Earth 2 has gone gold, and will be in stores March 2. We have a singleplayer demo on FileShack.
"The Lord of Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II will introduce players to new heroes, creatures, places and stories from Tolkien's fiction brought to life in the visual style of the films from New Line Cinema," said Mike Verdu, Executive Producer at EA LA. "The game combines a rich and wonderful world with innovations in real-time strategy game play to deliver the complete Middle-earth experience. This is the Middle-earth you've never seen." In The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II, players wage war in the Northern regions of Middle-earth where they can choose to assume command of the most storied civilizations in all of Middle-earth history - the Elven and Dwarven armies - or fight on the side of Evil with heroes and creatures that have never been seen in The Lord of the Rings films. Reprising his role as Lord Elrond, Hugo Weaving lends his voice to the game, helping to set the scene and tone for each mission.
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Now if they would make another version of the 3rd Age and make up their own storyline and set it in the crazy places that are only mentioned once or twice in the forgotten tales or simarillion, I'd be all over it.
i loved part 1. part 2's demo left me sour. i dont know why exactly but i didnt like it as much as i like part 1.
i dont know, but maybe i like having the set castles or something. although, the lack of armies might be it, i will still be buying this game.
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these old style wargames never really seem to work out. same thing happened with TA Kingdoms. or maybe it's just me. no matter what they do, you just don't get the same result that you get with tanks and planes, ya know?
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in the screenshots the shadows have crisp edges and look much better .. they really stood out badly in the demo for me compared to how good the game looked otherwise
They should be addressing what made the last one such a boring stinker. They should be saying, "Hey, we know the building schematic and imbalance issues killed the first game and made it unfun for anybody but the most die hard LOTR fans, but we've fixxed it now and there's STRATEGY!" but no, it's "Create your own hero" and "Wow look at all the Lord of the Rings shit we got!" How are gaming companies still in business with these predictable and ho-hum marketing tactics?
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