The skirmish battles are fantatstic, and I loved the storyline... up until the Barrow-downs mission. It was impossible. I think I'm okay at the game (I play against brutal computer level on skirmishes) but I just couldn't beat it. I don't know, maybe it's just me. The rest of the game is very simply one of the best expansions I've played in a long time. It builds upon the choppy war of the ring aspects of the first Battle for Middle Earth II and the new faction is great as well. It really opens up people who haven't read Tolkein's other books to a grander sense of the history and layout or Middle Earth as he imagined it. Hopefully, we'll se more of these fantastice games later on. Possibly a remake of the original story, but with the new factions and vamped up graphics. That would be best-case scenario for me.
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