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The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle Earth II: Rise of the Witch King | 
 enlarge | From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $24.19
New (4) Used (9) from $19.30
Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 2240
Platform: Windows XP
Genre: Fantasy Strategy Games
ESRB: Teen
Media: DVD-ROM
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.3 x 1.3
MPN: 15304
Model: 15304
ISBN: 0536489696
UPC: 014633153040
EAN: 9780536489692
ASIN: B000HAUO4A
Publication Date: 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Innovative new units will help to tell the story of the evil Witch-King's rise to power, domination of Angmar, and invasion of the great kingdom of Arnor | | • | Upgraded Create-A-Hero features - The new roll class boasts additional weapons and armor, for more customization | | • | War of the Ring, the risk-style meta-game, offers upgraded army persistence, a new siege dynamic on the Living World Map, and unified territories that serve as major control points | | • | Includes all-new content from Tolkien's original stories, delving deeper than ever into the story behind the award-winning movie trilogy |
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Product Description
Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-Earth II: The Rise of the Witch-King expands the universe Tolkiem created. This expansion pack to the fan favorite game series lets you command the rise of evil in Middle-earth while experiencing the epic battles that took place before the films. Become the leader of an evil faction and lead an invasion of the peaceful kingdom of Arnor, home of Aragorn's ancestors. To fully experience the evil side of Middle-earth, gamers can now play as the all new Angmar faction in skirmish, multiplayer, and War of the Ring modes.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 25
Good game May 9, 2010
Violet (FL, US)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a good game. It has really good graphics and the game play was great. It was challenging but easy to play. The game gives you the ability to choose the graphics.
A worthy expansion, but not worth what they are charging June 23, 2009
Jonathan Mettin (Philadelphia, PA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a decent expansion pack for BFME2. ROTWK takes place long before the events of the film, and detail the fall of Arnor (via the army of Angmar) over 1000 years before the Ring was even thought of.
The most obvious additions are the new faction, Angmar, and a campaign that revolves around it. Every original faction gets new units (including "elite" units, only a certain number of which can be in play at any time), with three getting new heroes. The create-a-hero now has a variable cost system, two new classes (snow and hill trolls), and the existing classes get a few more appearance options.
War of the Ring mode has been fleshed out, with an in-game economy, the ability to attack with four armies (instead of three), new territories, and the ability to keep units you created in RTS battle. The enemy AI is now able to retreat if it feels it can't win, although in my play-through it retreated a lot more than it should have - once even when it had me pinned in a corner of the map and had me slightly outnumbered.
All in all, it's a worthy expansion pack, but it's worth $30, not $100.
No great changes from LOTR II December 4, 2008
L. Sands (Around the corner)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The quality and style are all equalled by Battle for Middle Earth II. The Witch King provides additional characters without change in style and game play. I still give top marks to EA for this game and it's previous version. My review of LOTR II applies to this game as well. Enjoy!
An excellent addition May 24, 2008
Maddy (NJ)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
While the witch king does not dramatically change game play, it does add to the original game.
The Angar faction is a wonderful addition. They have added new, much needed, units to the other factions, additional maps, and beefed up the create a hero system. They also added a few heroes to some of the factions, like the Dale hero from the dwarven side.
I heard that the War of the Ring additions are also great, but I haven't had a chance to dig into that.
Overall, this expansion has peaked my interest in playing the game. I mostly play it on skirmish mode with other players. If you like the original, you will definetly like the additions with this expansion.
 Unable to play due to errors April 25, 2008
Jeffrey D. Newell
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
After receiving and installing the game was unable to play due to an dat.error. Apparently this is a known issue from EA forums that many people experience after instillation. DO NOT recommend buying as EA has not released a fix. The only way is to download a torrent with a no cd crack which is not a fix.
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