The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth 2: Review

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

I’ve probably put in a good 20 hours already and even as I type this am eager to fire it up again and wage another war.

The Good: BFME2 proves that RTS games can be played on a console with a controller. Beautiful visuals and perfect, on queue audio make the experience that much better. Ability to battle it out as good or evil and 2 full campaigns makes for a lengthy and full single player experience. 5 multiplayer modes adds to the already tremendous replay value.

The Bad: Framerate slowdowns during large scale battles are a bit of a drag.…