The Battle for Middle-earth 2: The Rise of the Witch-king review

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

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Pros

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    The look

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    the feel

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    the accuracy

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    The Angmar faction

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    Literally everything's been improved

Cons

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    Splayed

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    dynamic resource management

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    Witchy-boy being afraid of girls

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    Fighting against Angmars in multiplayer

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A glut of real-time strategy. A surfeit. A plethora even. That’s 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 spring’s The Battle for Middle-earth II that if you missed the original release, the expansion is all the reason you’ll need to pick up both.