EA are lucky Tolkein is not still alive
User Rating: 6 | The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II - The Rise of the Witch-King PC
Despite being a good adition to the BFME series in terms of gameplay, this game is just not middle earth im afraid. as a great fan of tolkeins, i thought that bfme 2 was pushing it with "Drogoth and Gorkil", but this is truly ridiculous. no matter how good the game is graphically or how good the gameplay is, nothing can get past the fact that this game feels as though the resercher spent more time in bed then reading through the lotr appendices and related books. The game advertises itself as "Command the rise of evil in middle earth", then i ask you, where is Melkor? How in the world can this be depicted as the rise of evil when it starts in the 2nd age, not the 1st? im aware they couldnt get the lisense for the silmarrilion and im now very glad of that.
How long will it be before EA stop making games purely for the money and start pleasing fans? this is certainly a game made for profit and i expect its hype to be dead in late 2008, unless of course its amazing community can help it out a bit.
Ok, rant over, this is a decent game i suppose, its got all the makings of a good rts, but i played c&c 3 today for the first time and see that it has far more depth than this. its got 7 factions which is good. now try balancing them.
It sounds harsh but dont buy this game, BFME 1 is so much better. 
