Review - The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth 2

In this review, I take a look at the EA strategy game Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth II on PC.

ESRB Rating: Teen (13+) - Fantasy Violence

All settings maxed at 1024x768. Watch in HQ for best visuals.

Minimum System Requirements:
-Windows XP
-1.6GHz or faster CPU
-64MB Ati Radeon 8500/Nvidia GeForce 3 or greater (GeForce 4 MX not supported)
-256MB RAM
-6GB Hard Drive Space

To clarify my review scores (they're "rough" scores, meaning it's not supposed to be some sort of percentage or anything):
1 or lower = Terrible. Avoid at all costs.
1.5 = Has a few redeeming qualities, but still sucks and should be avoided.
2 = Mediocre (Sub-par). You'll probably want to avoid this one.
2.5 = Underwhelming, but playable.
3 = Average. Worth playing, but probably not at full price.
3.5 = Good, but has issues.
4 = Excellent, but has a few problems that could probably be fixed through patching.
4.5 = Exceptional. Better than 4 but still has a few problems that could be ironed out.
5 = Outstanding. Stuff in this category is pretty much "must own."

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[kova0078]

i played all strategies games and now i am playing age of empires online the and does not have so much stratiegies such as world in conflict supreme commander total wars. This game has more strategies than age of empires.

[DWTerminator]

Age of Empires Online is pretty much nothing like AoE1-3, just so you know. It's barely even a strategy game at all.

And BFME2's really not that strategic. There's really no point to trying to develop a clever strategy since it'll all devolve into "spawn tons of units, then bash at the enemy for a while" anyway.

[kova0078]

@DWTerminator lol age of empires online its much more strategies than the rest of the series it has lot more staff to do and the fanctions are completly different age of empires 1 2 3 all factions were the same shit just 1-3 units special units. DID you even play age of empires online. Try legendarie mario in age of empires online and see if you need strategie or not NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB, stop makeing stupid reviews

[DWTerminator]

You're terrible at trolling.

[TheSpencerc12345]

if its so simple then put up a video of u playing against 3 ai on hard

[DWTerminator]

No. I could certainly do it, but I don't feel like it; it'd be a waste of time and HD space as well.

[facemouth83]

best part of the video is him saying "stellar" (:

[m4dn3s59595]

@atilla205

you spelled ,,i am an idiot,, wrong :D

[atilla205]

well of course is for LODR fans and not for strategy becose us are SOO muche more then you (stupid fuck)

[R4Z0RxTutorials]

@Nervejunktion Glad we could come to an agreement.

[Nervejunktion]

@R4Z0RxTutorials

I'd like to make a 180 degree turn around in my original standpoint man. You are 100% correct.

In complete honesty i didn't expect anyone with intelligence to read my points. let us be brothers and argue no more.

[R4Z0RxTutorials]

@Nervejunktion Idiot I didn't do this review, how is this my work? And what's immature is the fact that because someone doesn't like starcraft and you do, "fuck them". How do you not see the immaturity? Again, I didn't do this video, so your response wasn't directed to me I hope, because otherwise you don't know how to read

[Nervejunktion]

@R4Z0RxTutorials

LOL man I just re-read what i wrote 5 month's ago and I love myself.

can you explain how my summary of your work is immature? I say work because I really hope you get paid to do this otherwise....your just gonna make me laugh again:)

[R4Z0RxTutorials]

why, why, why are people raging on this review? You gave this a decent score, 3.5/5 isn't bad, people don't seem to understand, it's just "fair". It's not a great game, and it's not a terrible game. I played this a lot with my brother and I concur with all that you said. It all boiled down to who could spawn out the most units sooner, and who could attack first (in more ways than one).

And curious, do you like lord of the rings?

[R4Z0RxTutorials]

@Nervejunktion it's almost impressive how immature people like you are.

[atilla205]

ahahahahhahahahaha i never see a shitier review.