GamesRadar+ Verdict
Reasons to buy
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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
Reasons to avoid
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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.
