Each faction has story-appropriate attacks and defenses and heroes. To twist a phrase that only a Tolkien-geek can love, the Valar are in the details! A real feeling of the richness of Middle-earth is in the game, allowing players who manage well to produce stone-hurling Ents or a secret attack Watcher in the Water. Now, that all sounds basic but the joy of the game comes from all the complexities inside that simple formula. Resources allow players to build various fighting units which can be used to take out the opponents army or his structures. Players must manage resources that are harvested by mechanisms such as mines for Dwarves, Mallorn trees for Elves, farms for Men and so on. You will be pitted against the computer or other players who also control a group (called factions) and you square off to wipe each other off the map.
You can play Dwarves, Elves, Goblins, Isengard, Men of the West, and Mordor. Again, I cant say for sure that the game holds up over time, but my enthusiasm for it at this stage is genuine.įor beginners, the concept puts a gamer as a 3rd person all-powerful controller of a race from Middle-earth. I can only say that I absolutely loved what I played and if the rest of the experience can match the early stages, well, it was enough to send me scrambling for a BFME2 game so I could play the expansion after I completely devour the game it expands. In full-disclosure, I cant ethically give a complete review of the game because I didnt play it all or anything close to it. BFME2 is required to play the expansion so EA didnt need a tutorial on the game, but as a BFME2 virgin, I had to spend some control-learning time which was fun. First, I only played the game for eight hours at most and some of that time was spent teaching myself the basics. If you already know the BFME and BFME2 games, let me make this real easy for you: Rise of the Witch King is fantastic!įor the rest, who like me, maybe dont know the games inside and out, lets look with a little more depth. Apparently, TORn along with representatives from several gaming sites were the first to actually get hands on the finished game and play it.
The big event EA was promoting is the expansion of ∻FME2: The Rise of the Witch King, which hits the streets on November 28th and is a major addition/expansion to the game touted as having several significant upgrades and differences in game play.
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I have even played RTS games before somewhere in the ∼ommand & Conquer series and had a lot of fun. In the gaming circles, which I assume doesnt include all TORn readers, BFME2 (Battle for Middle-earth 2) is a real-time strategy game, known as RTS to gamers. So when the call came from EA Games to visit its campus and try out the new Rise of the Witch King expansion for the ∻attle for Middle-earth II game, I had a vague idea of what to expect. So EAs two ∻attle for Middle-earth games have always been in the back of my mind somewhere as something I really should try.
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Console games or games for the PC have been around as long as Tolkien has been part of mainstream pop-culture. Most of us have some, boxed on a shelf or received as presents or even board games or card games or miniature games that have received a fair share of use.Ĭomputer games are nothing new either. Mrcere writes: LOS ANGELES Let me make this really easy for you: If you have played EA Games ∻attle for Middle-earth II and enjoyed it even moderately, the new expansion The Rise of the Witch King is spectacular! If you havent played it, you may find like I did, that crawling into Middle-earth in a game format is immensely fun and contains more of the feel of Tolkiens works that you thought possible.Įverybody in the Tolkien universe, or at least the pop-culture side, knows that there are Lord of the Rings games aplenty.
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