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01-22-2005, 03:29 PM | #1 |
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"Battle for Middle Earth" Game
Recently purchased this game and it's actually pretty damn good for a strategy game.
If you dont know what it is then ill do a bit of explaining.... Its like the game "Age of Empires" - everyone must of heard of that... a army controlling strategic game. You play one of several races; Gondor, Rohan, Isenguard, and Mordor. Screenshots Does anyone own the game, I'd love to play against someone.
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01-23-2005, 02:17 PM | #2 |
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I've got it, it took me about a week to complete and it is great!
only one critisim the best levels are helms deep and minas tirith and you can't play them in skirmish mode |
01-23-2005, 03:14 PM | #3 |
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Well my PC cant really handle it, which is quite rediculous acually, because my computer isnt bad.
Ive just about nearly finished the good campaigns... My critisim is how stupid the computer is sometimes... but I guess thats why they invented online play.. We should organise a game sometime.
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01-23-2005, 04:38 PM | #4 |
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I don't have it yet but I'm thinking of getting, I just bought Half-Life 2: Silver and it comes with like 15 other games, speaking of which, does anyone play Counter Strike here?
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01-23-2005, 05:51 PM | #5 |
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oooh yeh, i do, well used too, not played in a while. But i still have steam installed so i could play at any time.
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01-23-2005, 05:54 PM | #6 |
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if it is like Age of Empires, then I have to get it,
it sounds great |
01-23-2005, 06:08 PM | #7 | |
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I have desided it is neet and humungus! If you have a very big computer and like LotR and can understand the interface (No bottom bar guys!) I'd recamend it. I have a tiny computer (3 Gigabates todle!) so I can't play it Hope this helps!
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02-02-2005, 12:26 PM | #9 |
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I bpught it on the weekend an have been playing it pretty much non-stop except for sleeping and going to school. However it takes ages to load a level or the game for me. Does this happen with anyone lese?
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02-03-2005, 03:48 PM | #11 | |
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You probably need to wait for a Pentium 7 to come out before it will load and run smoothly . Sometimes its really jumpy in-game too. You see that?
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02-04-2005, 12:56 PM | #12 |
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10 minutes sometimes! I envy you! A few nights ago it took 45 minutes for me to load one of the Rohan levels.
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02-19-2005, 09:48 PM | #13 | ||
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10-02-2007, 03:17 PM | #14 |
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I have the game its really awesome, i have saves for Minas Tirith and Helms deep just uncase i want to go back and play it lol because i think those are the best levels.
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10-02-2007, 04:24 PM | #15 |
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They have some really awesome maps on filefront's LOTR Files. Some of the maps there don't have screenshots for them, and I almost never download a map that doesn't show screenshots of it before hand, unless it sounds canon or awesome, or both, or just not some ****ty map that, I don't know, has bugs and stuff. But sometimes it's trial and error. Even some of those custom maps that look like they're big stuff end up being badly-scripted or not pathed well so that when you try to move somewhere you have to go, you can't. Argh! Oh well, that's my rant on maps
It's a pretty awesome game - present and (hopefully) future tense that is. Of course that must mean that in the past things weren't so hot... ...And indeed they weren't. Back a month or two ago I wouldn't have been saying the same thing. I had the biggest piece of junk for a graphics card that seemed to make BFME 2 and ROTWK crash to desktop (CTD) after 20 to 40 minutes of gameplay. Well that was just great - about to destroy my enemy and all of the sudden I crash out of game. I've had about 10 instances where I was about to destroy an opponent online, but I end up crashing. When I get back in, they thought I left the game because they thought that I thought I was losing. Well that starts to look bad after a while. Play a good game, almost win, and then out of nowhere that "almost win" doesn't count because to win you actually, well, have to win. And unfortunately I liked to torture my opponents at the end of the game by launching small but effective attacks against the stuff I didn't care about just so I can get as much rank as I could before I won. Not a good idea if you have a GeForce 6200TC (Turbo Cache) 256MB card. For some reason that card performed well, that is until the game crashed. So, logic finally set in and I finally decided to get rid of that so-called video card of doom and got myself a GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB. It's not the best one, as the GTX and Ultra are better, but it's close enough and for a far better price. And what games am I going to play that needs anything more than this? So yeah, the game doesn't crash anymore and I can now get through games that are 20, 40, 60, 120, and God-forbid, even 240 minutes long! If I ever have enough time to do a 4-hour-long game, someone please admit me to the funny farm. So I'm only assuming it will last 4 hours, or however long it needs to last. So essentially any game can now have a possibly successful outcome. It definitely isn't about who wins the game anymore - it's about not crashing anymore. It's definitely a lot more convenient now when I don't have to worry about crashing just two seconds before taking out my opponent's last building (which happened, I'm not even kidding, 4 times). The crashing just got way too depressing to deal with after a while and it was time for a major change. WorldBuilder actually works now too, that's an added bonus. |
10-02-2007, 04:27 PM | #16 |
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I've beaten both games at least once, but really loved them. I heard that there was an expansion pack out that would either a) Let you be a race of dragons (dont really know how that applies to LotR) or b) Be able to summon the dragon indefinately. I dont know if they are true or not, but it would be cool if they were.
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10-02-2007, 05:35 PM | #17 | |
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The CD label for BFME2: Rise of the Witch-King looks like this: "LOTRBFME2EP1" The above means explicitly: "Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth 2: Expansion Pack 1 aka Rise of the Witch-King". Apparently the next one will be "LOTRBFME2EP2". So it seems highly likely that the rumor could indeed be true, and perhaps not all too misleading. One thing that's not (as) certain is the possibility for BFME 3, which probably won't happen. |
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