The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth Anthology (2007)
Story:The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth Anthology offers fans the chance to bring together all the epic The Lord of the Rings battles within a single compilation.
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I already reviewed the two "Battle for Middle-earth" games separately (see their individual pages for details), but I am voting for this one because it includes the "Rise of the Witch-King" expansion for "Battle for Middle-earth 2". This expansion improves the game enormously. :-)
As for "the Battle for Middle-earth" games? There is so much to cover! The first game, LOTR: Battle for Middle-earth, allows you to play as members of the Fellowship as well as Rohan, Gondor, Isengard, and Mordor. Like all RTS games, you can build a base, train units and try to take your opponent's base - but there is much, much more to this game. You travel through Middle-Earth, seeing the sights and getting attacked by your enemy (and you can play either the "Good" or "Evil" side). The attacks come relentlessly, so almost from the start, the game puts you under pressure. It's up to you to resist the attacks, drive your enemy back, and go on the offensive -- either to free Middle-Earth from Mordor, or to crush it under your armoured boot! :-)
In "Battle for Middle-earth 2", you can explore what happens in Middle-earth while the Fellowship is off doing their own thing. There are more factions (e.g. Dwarves, Elves, Goblins etc.), and you can also hunt for Gollum and use the One Ring to ... whoops, I won't spoil it. :-)
In the expansion, "Rise of the Witch-King", you travel back to the Second Age and see the rise of the Witch-King of Angmar. You might remember him: he fights Gandalf in Gondor, and slays King Theoden, only to be slain by Eowyn and Merry. But who is this enigmatic figure, and where did he come from, and what did he do before the War of the Ring? This expansion answers your questions, and is very fun too.
In short, I recommend this game very highly. Two thumbs up, way up!
this goes for hundreds of dollars on ebay and these games are not available on any digital storefront. You have to use cracked version files for the game that people have shared online with big community made patches to get it to work or have a windows XP PC for the first game and a windows vista pc for rise of the witch king. This game is being lost to time because it isnt on any digital store not even EAs store.
Playing this game is a pleasure for me. I lose myself while playing the game. Only those who experience it know this pleasure, it is indescribable. Playing a game of a movie you love to watch and feeling like a member of that world is an undeniable pleasure. I hope we will have the opportunity to vote for the Rise of the Wicket King game.
Voting for this because it includes the expansion, Rise of the Witch King, as for a younger me who thought he knew everything about LOTR, having something that acted as a prequel to even the hobbit was a surprise and exciting story to watch play out as I played the game.
I use to play Battle for Middle Earth II with my xbox 360 years ago, but i always wanted to play the first game and the expansion. I hope we have the chance to play them.
I'm not really into the genre but these are my favourite RTS games to this day.
Whenever we were not playing MMORPGs we played these games endlessly with friends back in high school.
But it's not only the nostalgia, what really makes them special is how great they are at making you feel like being a part of Tolkien's world in the campaigns.
I want these games on GOG because it's a shame EA has turned them into abandonwares that you can't even get legally anymore and they could use some patching too.
I played both of these games' campaigns through, then played untold hours of multiplayer with my wife and a friend. These days they are difficult to get running on modern systems, and if you get them running you then need mods for widescreen support (which usually isn't hugely important, but for some reason with these games you are zoomed waaaaay in without widescreen), and even then it's nearly impossible to make the game run in multiplayer, as the copy protection doesn't like the different versions that result from widescreen mods.
These are the perfect games for GOG- so many more would play them now if they didn't have to spend a dozen or more hours fiddling to make them work.
Best of the best LOTR rts. And there have crazy good modding options too. I would like to be able to buy to be honest. I used to have disk version of the first game. It will make me very happy to add the collection to my library. Thaks for the good work GOG! I <3 GOG.
When I was 16 years old, I played my first ranked matches in an online RTS, and I was instantly hooked. I absolutely loved Helm's Deep—whether defending or attacking, it was the most thrilling experience I’ve ever had. No other game captivated me in the same way, not even classics like The Settlers 2, C&C Red Alert, Age of Empires, or Empire Earth.
The excitement and immersion I felt while playing Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds SAGA were unparalleled ,Then a few years later LOTR: Battle for Middle-earth released. And it was over with me and my Reallife... a bit later LOTR: Battle for Middle-earth2 with ADDon ....My Heart is pounding. For over two years, I dived deeply into ranked online matches, and I still cherish those memories. I even have all the original CDs for the games that shaped my gaming journey.
Unfortunately, my LOTR: Battle for Middle-earth II CD is scratched and no longer usable. Without the main game, I can’t install the expansion either. To make matters worse, I lost the account where I activated my key and played the ranked matches.
Childhood is a treasure that stays with us forever
(sry no nativ ENG speaker)