The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II - The Rise of the Witch-king
In this add-on for The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II it is your goal to lead the great armies of the Witch-King called the Angmar to victory. But there are also other mentionable additions…
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II - The Rise of the Witch-king is an adventure developed by EA Los Angeles, released 28 November 2006 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II - The Rise of the Witch-king is
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II - The Rise of the Witch-king is an adventure game developed by EA Los Angeles and released in 2006. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on SAGE.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The campaign allows the player to command the army of Angmar from its foundation and early attacks against Arnor, to the destruction of Arnor at the battle of Fornost. The story for The Rise of the Witch-king draws a great deal upon the Appendices at the end of The Return of the King to form a basis for the conflict between Arnor and Angmar. Many of the notes that Tolkien made regarding the war are used as missions in the games campaign and epilogue. Although the game closely follows Tolkien's writing, some events are modified to suit the gameplay (such as the palantír of Amon Sûl being destroyed rather than brought to safety at Fornost), or are omitted altogether (such as the flight of…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the The Lord of the Rings series
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II - The Rise of the Witch-king is the 28th of 69 entries we hold in the The Lord of the Rings series. It arrived 9 months after The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II. The next entry was The Lord of the Rings Online in 2007. Its critic score of 85 is 11 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring at 91.
How it was received
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II - The Rise of the Witch-king holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 20 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 85, across 96 votes.
What it launched against
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II - The Rise of the Witch-king launched on 28 November 2006, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Gears of War, Medieval II: Total War and Guitar Hero II. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Gears of War, Medieval II: Total War, Guitar Hero II.
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We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II - The Rise of the Witch-king yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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