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The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth
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The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth (2004)

by EA Los Angeles, Electronic Arts
Platforms:
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Genres:Strategy, Real Time Strategy (RTS)
Themes:Fantasy, Warfare
Game modes:Single player, Co-operative, Multiplayer
Story:
The players control the heroes or villians from the famous Lord of The Rings movies. With a hero characters similar to the Warcraft series you control both the armies and all the unique heroes. The game follows the movies very closely and even got scenes from the films appear in game. Not only does the game contain a giant campaign where you play through the journey of the ring as the good side, the game also features an evil campaign where as the players play as the evil forces of Middle Earth. With multiple diffrent races from all over Middle Earth, a giant spell tree to customize your game and a unique basebuilding layout the game was great for its time.
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One of the first games I ever played as a Kid and the whole three games of Battle for Middle-earth are my all time favorite. thinking of it makes me tear up remembering all the time I played it alone or In the Ringwars with my dad. I would love to play it again and as would I love to see it on GoGKarshis10
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user avatar@Karshis10user avatar@Karshis10
January 30, 2025
One of the first games I ever played as a Kid and the whole three games of Battle for Middle-earth are my all time favorite. thinking of it makes me tear up remembering all the time I played it alone or In the Ringwars with my dad. I would love to play it again and as would I love to see it on GoG
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user avatar@ageispolis3713user avatar@ageispolis3713
January 31, 2025
Not only was this one of the best RTS games around but it was the first one that I started editing config files for to remove the unit cap. Me and a friend took 30 minutes to build the biggest army we could I was Gondor and my friend was Isengard. By the time we actually battled we was running at about 5 fps and we each had an army size worthy of fighting at Pelennor fields. All the heroes and units we could muster stood facing each other across the map and after an intense battle only Gandalf was left standing, fighting 10 Mumakil. I only won because when he killed one final Mumakil he reached level 10 and I used word of power to finish off the other 9. We went from hundreds of units each to Gandalf standing alone atop a hill victorious. I will always remember that battle as it truly was epic and worthy of revisiting on a modern machine that could give us more than 5 fps. 😅
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user avatar@burakhira_2172user avatar@burakhira_2172
January 31, 2025
One of my alltime-favorite RTS. The game did a great job capuring the atmosphere of LOTR. Playing through missions like the battles at Helm's Deep and Minas Tirith or commanding your heroes through the mines of Moria was just awesome. For me, Battle of Middle-Earth is one of the most memorable and also most enjoyable RTS I ever played. I'd really love to see this absolute classic to be available at GOG.
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user avatar@Sarp_01user avatar@Sarp_01
January 31, 2025
One of the best strategy games of all time. Please let's see this on GOG.I played the game with my friends and it was an excellent experience.The perfect game for Lord of the Rings fans.
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user avatar@KaraMuradIuser avatar@KaraMuradI
January 31, 2025
One of the best RTS games ever made. It should come back again. I spent my childhood with it. The game I had the most fun playing with friends. A very good strategy game where you don't have to deal with resource management and immediately puts you in battle. Also the best among the Lord of the Rings games.
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user avatar@hasanari772_8249user avatar@hasanari772_8249
January 31, 2025
Amazingggggggg woaww!!! So Excitedd for this game, ı hope return for usss! Thankksss Amazingggggggg woaww!!! So Excitedd for this game, ı hope return for usss! Thankksss
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user avatar@guiguimegauser avatar@guiguimega
January 31, 2025
One of the best RTS games of all time, a game that marked a generation of players, that we can finally remember the old days, Middle Earth and its conquest awaits us
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user avatar@Ekylauser avatar@Ekyla
January 31, 2025
I really wanted to play this game again and GOG can make this happen ! What a fantastic pleasure it would be if they were able to release it again. Fingers crossed !
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user avatar@lowca12user avatar@lowca12
January 31, 2025
One of the best Rtses ever made. Great, very interesting campaign, like in the movies. Unique factions. Looks very nice. Units show emotions, like fear. Everyone who likes RTS games and Lord of the rings, should try it.
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user avatar@Itzcouser avatar@Itzco
January 30, 2025
this RTS game with its campaign with shots from the movie and an alternate evil campaign is one of the most fun and impressive RTS games, especially for fans of LOTR. Having to defend Helm's Deep and Gondor long enough for reinforcements, taking down Isengard with the treeants were some of the best missions in an RTS I've played. I know that bring it to GOG would be a massive effort due to the rights disputes between EA and the current holders of the LOTR IP, but all LOTR games from around this era were amazing games that deserve to be preserved.
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