Even better, you can combine each button for almost any situation - enabling you to select everything on screen, remove a couple of unwanted units, then give a movement order, before zooming in and selecting one flank of your army and giving them additional instructions.
Above: Organising large groups should be much easier with the new joypad-led control system
With a crowd of multiplayer options for Xbox Live - including Hero vs Hero, King of the Hill, Capture and Hold and Resource Race matches - the new, far more accessible and nimble control system will make organising large groups as simple as commanding small skirmishes. We'll be putting Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-Earth II to the review sword soon.
An incredible XCOM-like strategy game is finally getting a sequel after 9 years - the latest in a criminally slept-on series that's never seen a bad game
The latest unexpected Steam hit is a $3 must-play and it may still hit greater heights after nearly 7,000 glowing reviews as the dev looks to add multiplayer
