The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II
Wage war in the North and assume command of the most storied civilizations in all of Middle-earth history - the Elven and Dwarven armies - or fight on the side of Evil with heroes and creatures that have never…
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II is a real time strategy (rts) developed by EA Los Angeles, released 2 March 2006 on Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II is
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by EA Los Angeles and released in 2006. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on SAGE.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II is a 2006 real-time strategy video game developed and published by Electronic Arts. The second part of the Middle-earth strategy game series, it is based on the fantasy novels The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien and its live-action film series adaptation. It is the sequel to Electronic Arts' 2004 title The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth. Along with the standard edition, a Collector's Edition of the game was released, containing bonus material and a documentary about the game's development.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are 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 is the 27th of 69 entries we hold in the The Lord of the Rings series. The next entry was The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II - The Rise of the Witch-king in 2006. Its critic score of 81 is 7 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 holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 75% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 261 votes.
What it launched against
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II launched on 2 March 2006, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, Daxter and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, Daxter, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter.
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