Good RTS by EA which will keep you entertained for some time.
There are 16 campain missions on each the good side and the evil side, which are intresting enough to keep you occupied. Also there are also 40 skirmish maps to play. Many of them provide very cool settings to play in like Rivendell, Celduin, Erebor, and The Shire and most are constructed to fit the fiction and progress the action and technology. What I liked about this second installment was the ability to create heroes in this game. Depending on what side you on, you can customize your character from the color to what abilities they have. There has been some gameplay changes for Battle for Middle-earth II, now it has more of an old school feel to it. Bases can now be built free-form instead of the set base size with a number of build plots like in the first game. Now, since walls can be built and buildings placed anywhere, changes were made to what can be constructed and how resources are collected. Walls become a huge strategy for certain races (though they're usually very expensive to construct). There are also some new races to play such as the elves, Drawfs and the goblins.
Graphics: The graphics have been improved, especially for the xbox 360 version it just seem to be enhanced by the system. Everything is well detailed and has great camra angels.
sound: Well the sound is great in this game. It uses some of the music from the movie which is nice and the voice acting sounds great aswell along with the sound effects such as the arrow shots and stuch.
Value: All in all this is a good sequal which is rare these days. What i disliked was the cookie cutter type gameplay this game EA gave us, secondly I did not liked during the campaine it was much like risk and when you lost a area and got it back again you had to re-build everything. All in all this was a good game which I enjoyed though it did seem a little underrated. I give this game 8.0 out of 10.