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Posted By: Kevin Dec 28, 2004 - 01:41 pm

Has anyone played this game? I can't believe how fun it is. It's such a strategy game, and the graphics are great. I love the battle sequences and the fact that even the units can get rank-ups, as well as the NPC's, and the NPC's have special moves and spells, some of which they get with the rank-ups. This is an awesome game!

Posted By: Magus Dec 28, 2004 - 04:12 pm

I played the ROTK computer game. For some reason I can't get up the ladder in the beginning. But it may be a different game altogether.

Posted By: Kevin Dec 29, 2004 - 02:04 pm

The ladder? I don't understand, but yes this is a completely different game. It's like Command and Conquer, except LOTR and 3D.

Posted By: Magus Dec 29, 2004 - 08:57 pm

What I'm thinking of, which I am now sure is a different game altogther, starts off in the middle of the Battle of Helm's Deep. I am Ganbdalf the White and kill all the Orcs in one area. The only way out, apparently, is up a wooden ladder. But, no matter what I do, I always fall off of it the exact same way.

Posted By: Kevin Dec 30, 2004 - 09:44 am

Yeah I have that one as well, but that one was a big disappointment. It was too short. And I don't know what's wrong with Gandalf. Have you checked your key settings?

Posted By: Magus Jan 04, 2005 - 03:53 pm

I checked anything that I could. But I've had bad luck with glitches with games before. Maybe it's just karma.

I was just talking to a friend of mine and he just got Battle of Middle Earth for Christmas. He's a good judge of games and said that, of what he's played so far, it's good.

Posted By: Kevin Jan 04, 2005 - 07:44 pm

I find it has great playability. It seems like one of those games that would take quite a while to get old, which is very important in a game.

Posted By: Magus Jan 05, 2005 - 02:58 pm

Yes. That's why I love the Baldur's Gate series so much. It just never gets old.

Posted By: BenJaru Jan 05, 2005 - 07:26 pm

I know which one you're talking 'bout Magus. I had no trouble with it cuz I got the video game version.
I can't think of anything to help exept to plug a PS2 usb controller into your comp and try that. It should work...

Kevin, Really want to get Battle for Middle Earth, but it is still a tad expensive for my budget, and I don't think my comp would run it.

BenJaru

Posted By: Kevin Jan 05, 2005 - 08:43 pm

It says 1.2 GHz, but mine runs on 0.8 GHz. I know what you mean, games are too overpriced, but this one came on Christmas. Often if you just wait a few months, the game price could drop dramatically.

Posted By: Magus Jan 06, 2005 - 03:32 pm

The video game version? I heard of this, but it seems almost completely different from the origional. From what I saw you only had your MC, wheras in the game you have him/her plus up to five other NPC's.

Also, what's the plot of the video game? I would like to see how it relates with the origional.

Posted By: BenJaru Jan 16, 2005 - 07:28 am

In the ps2 version you can be play only certain character for certain levels, for instance, in the level where you have to kill Shelob, you can only be Frodo or Sam, that is, until you win the game and unlocl all the characters.

I think the story line is the same, because I think they took the same game and just made it PS2 compatible. First level you are Gandalf at Helms Deep, Next you are Aragorn, Logolas, or Gimli in the realm of the dead, or whatever it is called where Aragorn faces the leader of the cursed guys in the mountain... You know. Next level you have to escape from the cave because it starts to cave in-personally my two least favorite levels. I think next you get to fight in the battle of Pellenor fields, and you have to save Aowyn and Merry from the Nazgul, and also shoot elephants.
Next you get to do a lvl called the Southern Gate- my absolute favorite level! Then there are the levels that branch off to the side like Shelods lair, and the tower of Osgiliath. You also get to do one where you are gandalf and you help destroy Sarumans valley-My second favorite level. In the video game you don't ever get to play a woman, do you in the pc version?? I think we talk of the same game...

Fairion

Posted By: Raining_Blood Mar 24, 2005 - 06:33 am

um... the multiplayer part of this game is SO ungodly unbalanced... i cant tolerate playing it anymore. a good isengard player can beat anyone else in the game. maybe when the new patch comes out, ill try to play it again...

Posted By: Mogget1 Mar 24, 2005 - 04:33 pm

Really? I never noticed, but I don't play the multiplayer so I wouldn't notice.

Posted By: Magus Mar 24, 2005 - 05:55 pm

I don't even play the game at all.

Posted By: Raining_Blood Mar 25, 2005 - 08:44 am

you need a very good computer to play it. unless youve gotten a new one since last time i was at your house... yours couldnt handle it.

Posted By: Magus Mar 25, 2005 - 08:30 pm

Hehehehe... I think we all know the answer to that. This Gateway sucks for all manner of games, or anything requiring too much in the meens of graphics.

Posted By: aldan Mar 26, 2005 - 11:26 am

It doesn't Moooove the graphics around very quickly, does it?

Posted By: Magus Mar 26, 2005 - 11:45 am

It lags like Hell. That and it used to freeze a lot, although it seems to have moved beyond that. But lagging is still a major problem.

Posted By: Mogget1 Mar 26, 2005 - 12:03 pm

I think it requires 1.3GHz and I have only 0.8GHz. However, it does work.

Posted By: Raining_Blood Mar 31, 2005 - 01:33 pm

i have 3 ghz and it slows down when i have other programs running.

however... i do only have 512 mb ram.

Posted By: aldan Mar 31, 2005 - 10:20 pm

RAM is usually the bottleneck with computer games. I've got an Athlon 2700+ processor, but most games will work fine on my computer even at high detail settings due to my having 256mb dedicated vid RAM plus 1.5gb 3200+ RAM.