..::The Lord of the Rings™, The Battle for Middle-earth™ II::..
Publisher by: EA Games
Official web page: LINK
Developed by: EA Los Angeles
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Release date: February 28, 2006
Platform: PC, XBOX 360
Story/Description:
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Command the legendary heroes and armies of Middle-earth™ in a real-time, open world.
Experience Middle-earth like never before in The Lord of the Rings™, The Battle for Middle-earth™, the first The Lord of the Rings game that puts you in command of a real-time, open world. Control the legendary heroes, massive armies, and epic campaigns of Middle-earth in over 25 missions based on all three films of The Lord of the Rings™ trilogy. From waging all-out combat among the vast forces of good and evil to controlling your favorite heroes and characters to managing the troops and resources of your side, the fate of a living, breathing Middle-earth is in your hands.
Key Features
•Fight the epic, sweeping battles from the Academy Award-winning The Lord of the Rings™ fi lm trilogy from a whole new perspective—as commander of hundreds of soldiers and creatures.
•Control massive armies and interactive battlefields across the vast world of Middle-earth.
•Lead the forces of good or evil by controlling one of four unique groups, from the Riders of Rohan to the forces of Sauron, each with its own playing style, resource management, and base-building techniques.
•Take command of strategic territories across a highly detailed, 3D map of Middle-earth and turn the tide in the battle to control The One Ring.
•Watch your armies come to life as they express emotion—from anger to fear to triumph—when reacting to events and their surroundings.
•Make smarter and faster decisions in the heat of battle with an all-new intuitive, streamlined interface that gives you contextual control of your forces and structures.
•Challenge fellow rulers online in massive multiplayer battles.
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..::System Requirements::..
Here you go. This information came from the Community FAQ made by GameReplays, BFME Tournaments, and Middle-earth Center, which can be found here;-
http://gamereplays.org/bfme2/faq/
Now please, before making topics or asking questions if your computer can run this game, look here first! If you are still unsure if your computer can run this game, then ask here, don't make a topic about it. Myself, as well as the people here, will do our best to help you out.
KEEP BUMPED!
GRAPHICS CARDS;-
Cards you can expect to run the game, but only at low settings and resolutions:
Geforce 3 Ti
Geforce 4 Ti
Geforce FX5200/5500/5600XT/5700LE
Geforce 6200A/6200 "Turbocache"
Radeon 8500
Radeon 9200SE/9200/9250/9600SE/9550
Radeon X300SE/X300 "Hypermemory"
Radeon Xpress200
Cards that might be able to run the game at decent settings and resolutions:
Geforce FX5600/5700/5600 Ultra/5700 Ultra
Geforce 6200/6600LE
Radeon 9550/9600/9600 Pro/9600XT/9800SE
Radeon X300/X300PE/X550/X600 Pro/X600XT/X700SE
Cards that should be able to run the game at pretty high settings:
Geforce 5800/5900ZT/5900XT/5900/5900 Ultra/5950 Ultra
Geforce 6600/6600PE/6600GT/6800LE
Radeon 9800/9800 Pro/9800XT
Radeon X700/X700 Pro/X700XT/X800
Cards that should be able to run the game with all settings on high and than some!
Geforce 6800/6800GT/6800 Ultra/7800GTX
All SLI systems
Radeon X800 Pro/X800XL/X800XT/X850XT
All Crossfire systems
COMPUTER PROCESSING UNIT(CPU);-
CPUs that are pretty much hopeless:
Intel Pentium III or earlier
Intel Celerons clocking at less than 1.2GHz (I'm unfamiliar with earlier Celerons - do these even exist?)
AMD Duron
CPUs that should be able to run, but not well:
Intel Celeron (Note: all recent low-end Intel CPUs are Celerons. The ones I'm talking about are less than 4 years old, and runs on the Pentium 4 core.)
AMD Athlon
CPUs that probably won't run VERY well, but will run ok:
Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz-2GHz
Intel Celeron 2.4GHz
Intel Pentium M ~1.1Ghz
Intel Celeron M ~1.2GHz
AMD Athlon XP 2400+ or lower
AMD Sempron 2200+
CPUs that shouldn't have problems:
Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz - 2.66GHz
Intel Celeron 2.4Ghz - 2.8GHz
Intel Pentium M 1.2Ghz - 1.6GHz
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ - 3000+
AMD Sempron 2400+ - 2800+
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Ideal CPUs:
Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz or above
Intel Pentium M 1.6GHz or above
Intel Pentium EE or better
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
AMD Sempron 3100+
AMD Athlon 64 (any model)
AMD Athlon FX series or better
RAM;-
Even those among us who are not fortunate enough to be nerds know that RAM is important. Without sufficient RAM, frame rates and response speed will drop, while loading times will soar. While it probably has less of an effect that the graphics card on the frame rate, even having a top graphics card won't help you run the game if you only have 128MB.
The minimum requirements for BFME called for 256MB system memory. BFME2 will probably require twice of that - if you are lucky. Even if the minimum specs are put at 256MB, running with 256 or even 512MB would result in long loading times and performance that can hardly be called acceptable. A clean Windows XP SP2 system easily takes up 300MB of system memory without the additional help of programs eating RAM, and systems with 256MB RAM are highly unlikely to run any modern games.
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Topic Powerd by LeFroid
, the only bummer. I can deal with that though. You can put archers in your towers along with axe throwers. I liked how the game did the cap limit. It's based on how many mines you have. I had mines every where even if they were below 10% LOL!! The archers have a cool bombard option that sets a certain chosen area on fire from their arrows! Enemies are burned or killed when they walk through it. In my game the fire wasn't always evident. I hope they fix that as it should be like an inferno! They also have a fear arrow that when shot and connects that monster runs away!! Animation was excellent and the music was exactly what you would expect for a LOTR title. I was only playing it on easy to get to know the game. I will have to play on medium tonight. The only thing I didn't do was use a hero. I just didn't have enough cap room when I decided to try them. One thing I didn't like was that I could not repair anything. Buildings and walls would repair by themselves over time. But I hoped they would have put a repair option on your builder unit or the building or wall itself like in BFME. No biggy though. The Goblins can climb over your walls which I thought was awesome, just like the FOTR. I had no problems with money. They seem to have that figured out. But I was astonished at how few power allocation points I had. Probably because I was playing easy and didn't have as many battles as I would in medium difficulty. I only used up 20 and must have played for 2 hours. There are 3 first level powers at 5 points each. The 2nd tier is 10 and so on. If you stay in your base and defend and grow your army, a game could take 5-10 hours if you waned it to easily. Also, probably 5 hours into a game on easy you will have all points allocated to your powers. I will give the game a 9 out 10. For a demo I see no need for improvements other than the wall/archer dilemma and the missing repair icons, but I can live with out that. If the final game has those items I will give it a 10 out of 10. If you haven't played it yet, what are you waiting for, start downloading!
