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Lord of the Rings Battle for Middle-earth II The Rise of the Witch-king

Also known as: LotR: The Battle for Middle-earth II The Rise of the Witch-king, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II The Rise of the Witch-king [UK]

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Want more and bigger real-time strategy battles in Middle-earth? Add this to your buy pile post-haste and thank us (but mostly EA LA) in the morning.

Genre: Strategy
Release date: Nov 28, 2006
Published by: Electronic Arts
Developed by: Electronic Arts, EA Los Angeles

Franchise: Lord of the Rings
Min system requirements: 1.6 GHz (or equivalent) processor, 512 MB RAM, 3 GB HD space, 64MB video card, DirectX 9.0c
Recommended system: 3.0 GHz (or equivalent) processor, 1 GB RAM, 256MB video card
Multiplayer Modes:

Offline

1 player SOLO

Online

8 player VS

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Lord of the Rings Battle for Middle-earth II The Rise of the Witch-king - Everything a great expansion should be, doing both the series and Tolkien's source material proud.

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Everything a great expansion should be, doing both the series and Tolkien's source material proud.

PC Review - Nov 29, 2006

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The Witch-King has risen

New footage of Battle for Middle-earth II add-on

Nov 29, 2006

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Review

Everything a great expansion should be, doing both the series and Tolkien's source material proud.

Nov 29, 2006

A glut of real-time strategy. A surfeit. A plethora even. Thats what 2006 feels like: one crispy, creamy confectionary after another. Well brace yourselves, here comes another, shining the light of Elendil onto an original that hardly needed it. Rise of the Witch-king is such an all-around quality follow-up to this springs The Battle for Middle-earth II that if you missed the original release, the expansion is all the reason youll need to pick up ...

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Who knew succumbing to the dark side would be so challenging?

Nov 3, 2006

Villains don't get the respect they deserve. We spend so much of our time rooting against them in movies or bringing about their downfall in videogames that we never stop to appreciate all the blood, toil, sweat and tears it takes to be a villain. Okay, so maybe the blood is usually somebody else's, but still... destroying the world ain't easy. We learned this lesson the hard way recently while battling through the single-player campaign in Rise of the Witch-king, the new evil-themed expansion ... » Read Full Lord of the Rings Battle for Middle-earth II The Rise of the Witch-king preview

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Turn back the clock... the hour of darkness is upon us

Aug 22, 2006

We all know how The Lord of the Rings ends. Evil is defeated, the tide of darkness is turned back and peace returns to the happy lands of Middle-earth. The squeaky hobbits and their singing elf pals win, while the side with giant wolves, man-eating dragons and bloodthirsty trolls... loses. Doesn't seem fair, does it? The creators of the successful real-time strategy game Battle for Middle-earth II certainly don't think so. That's why they're taking us back to the beginning - the root of all ... » Read Full Lord of the Rings Battle for Middle-earth II The Rise of the Witch-king preview

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