Lord of the Rings returns again, and you'll probably only enjoy this game if you're a huge fantasy nerd and love LOTR.
Ah, Tolkien's great classic has returned again, in yet, another RTS, which happens to be the sequel to The Battle for Middle Earth. Hence, this game is named, The Battle for Middle Earth 2. And what a surprise! EA has managed to bring the strategy genre to the console! Particularly the Xbox360. Personally, bringing the strategy genre to the consoles, was not such a great idea. The big screen, eh, fun at first, but becomes tiresome to navigate your eyes across it when you're looking for a simple unit. Easy controls? Not so much, having to press the Right trigger button along with 50 other controls to get 3 units of archers to move into a building... Not so fun at first, but of course, the game will grow on you and surprisingly can be somewhat fun for a little bit. Listed above, are the game's most distinguishing qualities, which are not very good ones.
Then again, The Battle For Middle Earth 2 does have its perks. The multiplayer is quite fun, when you're bashing "Minas Tirith" to the ground with a bunch of hairy trolls and giant elephants. While your opponent 10 miles away is crying over the loss of his great castle in an online battle, just thinking about that made me want to play the multiplayer even more. The graphics are quite nice for a game that came all the way from the PC. The story line is what really makes this game though. It's definitely not the best we've ever seen from EA adaptations of Tolkien, but it really opens up a whole new world to the player. Most people didn't know from the movie that the shire gets attacked by evil green goblins until this game showed them. Altogether, what makes this game fairly acceptable is the multiplayer, the graphics, and the Great Storyline.
The game overall isn't the best that EA has come up with, and it's definitely not worth your buy unless you're a big Tolkien fan, or you just want 15 hours of fun for 60 bucks... Which in my opinion isn't a very good deal. And not to mention, this game is also on the PC, which is actually much better and cheaper, if you're really motivated to buy this game get on the computer.