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  What a Shame January 27, 2008
Well, looked forward to playing this game but alas it will not run on my computer for no apparant reason! I've updated to the latest patch 1.05, and updated my graphics card drivers! I also made sure to end all unneccessary tasks on my pc, but still it wouldn't even load! An error with the game.dat file, and my pc is far beyond the specs needed for this game (this is the collectors edtion btw). My GPU is 8800GTS maybe its too new for the game to handle but this is very annyoing and a waste of money!
 Great game...but! January 10, 2008
I really love this game, i love to play it with my friends..but:
1. You should be able to change the heroes look a bit more! Like haircolour,skincolour and the clothes.
2. The evil teams sucks compares to human team! You can't win with evil, and that really, really bugs me. For example: The human team's got archers that can shoot a rain of arrows anywhere on the map, healing & when you create a hero they can have invulnerability a time - while the evil ones dont have anything like that!
3. Sauroman is a real big issue! In the movies/books (at least at the beginning)Sauroman is better than Gandalf, not in the game! He's the most expencive hero of Isengard, but he dies first!
4. I think that you should be able to use the custom-hero in the single-player game, that would be fun!
 Worth the money... July 20, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game is addictive for the first 2-3 days, but you seem to lose intrest quite quickly. However, the total war style "war of the ring" mode is good and the campaign map is good, and also you can fight on unique maps for every province, which is even better when you fight at places like minis tirith or helms deep - you can actually defend the fortress.
Overall, not brilliant, but worth the money.
Definately worth it March 10, 2007
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
Unlike all the other lord of the rings games-whatever console they're for-I've noticed they all follow the same events-the journey of Frodo and aragorn down south or around that area. I love this game because it gets away from this and (in the campaign-either baddies or goodies) concentrates on the fights between dwarves and elves with sauron in the north, (In skirmishes though you can still play with whoever you want anywhere so don't let this put you back).
You start off fighting in rivendell and slowly travel around fighting in different places against different heroes and races.
All heroes in campaign or skirmishes devastate with great attacks and dominate the battlefield. I also love the fact that you can actually put walls round your base (even though uruks easily come and poke them down).
All unit factions have advantages and disadvantages and you can place them in battle lines or hide them in trees and finally you can increase the number of units you can have up to virtually 4000 making for giant epic battles or just little fights.
Only problems with the game. When finished the campaign and done a few skirmishes it starts getting a bit tedious (even with the war of the ring different play style i'm hopind the add on pack will increase things to do). Also, if you don't have 5.5GB or a decent video card it won't work (which lots of people have had trouble with) but check your computer for the right requirements, get the game and enjoy a fabulous gaming experience with the most amazing graphics.
 Not bad . . . Not Bad at all September 12, 2006
38 out of 44 found this review helpful
So, i loaded this game up - started it, thought aha! plenty of graphics options, so i customised it, tweaked it some more ( i like the get the balance just right, acceptable FPS v Graphics, yes, slightly nerdy but hey, i play computer games .. . ) and played a skirmish, then another, and another, marvelled at how the witch king gracefully tore through battalions at a time, how my Half Trolls tore through cavalry of the rohirrim, how drogoth effortlessly torched entire bases, and most of all, how Souron effortlessly destroyed an entire army. All this power, so little time. And here comes my one main complaint really, the AI is really very pants. Pants. Paaaaaants. Just to emphasise it some more - PAAAAANTS! Once you've played it a few times you've played it all. Don't get me wrong, its still a lot of fun, i mean a lot of fun, but it could do with tweaking somewhat, to make it less brain dead.
My other couple of complaints - Walls. Walls did not crumble when an uruk hai poked them with his eyebrow tweasers, did they? Well, in this game, walls serve only one purpose - to slow the enemy down so you can move troops to counter the attack.
Another is skinning, some of the skins have not been updated since BFME I, and although they still look good, they could have been polished that little be extra in my opinion, although, i am not a programmer nor a skinner, and this may be a highly arrogant point of view.
My last is realism - when could 1 battalion run through another without being hurt in some way - i.e. a battalion of pikemen are run at my swordsmen, my reaction would be to form a phalanx.
That said, BFME II is a fantastic game - dispite my griping - perfectly capturing the LOTR's Battle Universe, and, while it cannot compete on the scale of something like the Total War series for numbers of units, it is certainly a game worth playing. It is imaginative, creative and a thouroughly enjoyable experience - I reccomend getting this game.
Just some things to note - space requirements - over 5 gig, it also requires a decent graphics card, a fair amount of RAM and a good processor to run well. Although it has done fairly well on my old AGP graphics card, i would like to experience the game at its best.
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