The Lord of the Rings Battle for Middle Earth Anthology
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Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
Model: 16733
Binding: DVD-ROM
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Label: Electronic Arts
Platform: Windows XP
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Platform: Windows XP
Features for The Lord of the Rings Battle for Middle Earth Anthology:
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Editorial Review
Command the legendary heroes and armies of legend in Lord of The Rings: Battle For Middle Earth Anthology. Your goal is to step into a new world, one taken from the books&films. Wage all-out combat against either the forces of good or the armies of evil, controlling troops and managing resources. The fate of a continent is your hands! Includes Battle For Middle Earth I&II, plus the Rise Of The Witch-King expansion.
Lord of the Rings: Battle For Middle Earth features:Single-player story campaign takes you to previously unseen Middle-Earth places and battles - Dol Guldur, The Misty Mountains and Mirkwood Control battles with all-new enemy AI, melee combat, and flanking, adding unprecedented tactical fidelity Extend your battlefield with larger than life battles at sea Create your own hero with in-game avatars&customized RTS units Unleash powerful new weapons and abilities - summon dragons, cause volcanoes to erupt, or bring down a cataclysmic lightning strike
Lord of the Rings - The Rise of the Witch-King features - Lead an evil faction's invasion of Arnor, home of Aragorn's ancestorsPlay the new Angmar faction in skirmish, multiplayer, and War of the Ring modes Upgraded Create-A-Hero features - New roll class boasts additional weapons and armor, for more customization War of the Ring - A Risk like meta-game offering upgraded army persistence, a new siege dynamic on the Living World Map and unified territories that serve as major control points 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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Customer Reviews
Great games in a nicely priced bundle. 
2007-10-06
I have been waiting quite some time for these to be bundled together at a good price. It's still a bit high right now, but it's a good start. A much more sensible bundle than when they bundled it with Black and White.
Friends of mine swear that these games are massively better than all the games in related genres like the Warcraft games. They play them online all weekend long and I have yet to see one crash which is a rare thing itself in the games world these days.
I like it so much I am going to post a link on some chat pages so people can purchase it via our affiliate program for The Realms of Legend castle project. I'd post it here but I don't think you are allowed to.
Great games, great value 2007-08-02
This anthology containing all "Battle for middle-earth" games produced by EA is really a great value. Priced separately the three games total to around $50 on most websites. Also of note, on most websites and retail outlets this game is priced $39 and change rather than $36 and change. With free shipping, this is a great deal.
Hot Ring of Gold 2007-07-01
This game looks like its a lot of fun.
It's much easier to buy together than separately.
It should prove to be hours of entertainment.
lord of the rings battle for middle earth 2 
2007-05-22
good game allot different from the first 1 but still good game would recommend
My kids and I love these games! 2008-07-06
We multiplayer with and against each other and have a blast doing it... My sons and I are huge fans of the LOTR series and these RTS games are the most enjoyed and most played in my house....
... for those concerned about Vista OS compatability, we have had no issues. We solo and multi on two vista and one xp computers without any issues.
No pause - so it's Real-Time but there isn't much Strategy 
2008-04-08
I have no idea why anyone who produces an RTS wouldn't provide a pause key enabling you to select units reliably and issue orders. Perhaps EA do, because they didn't. Or maybe they just forgot.
Sadly, although it looks okay and has the right franchise, I'm not a big fan of playing games where the key to success is picking out the right pixel to select an archer out of a scrum of two hundred scrapping soldiers. Or leaping from one battle to another with uncannily accurate clicks on a crappy minimap.
If those two are either beyond you or not your idea of fun, you probably want to try the Total War series or something.
not for vista 
2008-04-07
use to play this game in my old Vaio pc with windows xp fun everytime BUT for windows vista the only think you can do its use it as cupholder nothing happens I already have tried all the ways for compatibility and nothing customers services...never answer to but for ea games has one less customer.
Vista Users Beware .......... 2008-02-21
I have a Vista OS and have been able to play many RTS games under this system (sometimes with tweaks) but not this set of games. After trying many different things and calling tech support twice I had to give up. I could not get it to run under my Vista OS. I gave the game 4 stars for fun (which it is under XP) but only 1 overall because of the lack of support for a newer OS. When I asked tech support whether I was alone with my problem, they said "No". When asked whether they would ever work on getting it to run under Vista, I was told "that they did not know". Shame on EA for such shortsightedness.
Beware laptop users! 
2007-10-21
I bought this game to play on my alienware laptop, which i thought could handle almost anything. it has no trouble with rome: total war, but for BFME2, it just is no fun. the game constantly loses track of the cursor so that the cursor icon freezes on the screen, making it almost impossible to do anything. EA was helpful in troubleshooting, but in the end they told me this game was not tested for laptops. so beware!
