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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 greatest gaming series ever, and absolutely PEAK movie tie in games. The game play, while lacking depth, was insanely fun. The campaign was simply genius. Being able to carry units over from map to map really let specific units shine as they leveled up and grew in power. The cheese strats you could do were stupid fun to pull off. Churn out a bunch of units, hit the command point cap, then send them off to die to a single soldier in the unit. Recruit more units, rinse lather repeat. Next map, you'd have an army that was 3x the command point limit, and could just steam roll the entire game from there. Incredibly fun, and I desperately want it on GoGAglaraAndune
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user avatar@AglaraAnduneuser avatar@AglaraAndune
July 03, 2026
One of the greatest gaming series ever, and absolutely PEAK movie tie in games. The game play, while lacking depth, was insanely fun. The campaign was simply genius. Being able to carry units over from map to map really let specific units shine as they leveled up and grew in power. The cheese strats you could do were stupid fun to pull off. Churn out a bunch of units, hit the command point cap, then send them off to die to a single soldier in the unit. Recruit more units, rinse lather repeat. Next map, you'd have an army that was 3x the command point limit, and could just steam roll the entire game from there. Incredibly fun, and I desperately want it on GoG
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user avatar@ersintasuser avatar@ersintas
July 04, 2026
Not only this game but all the modders who kept this game alive for 20 years should be awarded. I have played this game on and off for 20 years and i havebeen enjoying it ever since
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user avatar@pepeno1user avatar@pepeno1
July 05, 2026
I'd like to upgrade and collect the armies for the final battle. I liked the feature where I was able to combine different type of teams into one. For example one of my toughest group was assembled from Gondorian tower guards and elven archers. Also I liked very much the cavalry archers. Very useful units. Also I liked that the heroes were upgradeable, and at the level 10, they were technically undefeateables.
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user avatar@OculisIgnemuser avatar@OculisIgnem
July 06, 2026
I was impressed by this game when it came out - the emoting units and the movie images. I tried to play it on my Desktop - 1.6 Ghz Athlon, 640 RAM (32 reserved for integrated video). Closed everything, even the internet. I only got trough the menus to lower the settings and it still crashed on loading the map. Would be great if I can get it from GOG to give it another try.
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user avatar@axsaxs991419_4208user avatar@axsaxs991419_4208
July 08, 2026
It is the best RTS for me as a lover of the lord of the rings. However, I have no CD for the installation as I loss my CD, striking hard to find the another ways to play it one more time
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user avatar@Baer1987user avatar@Baer1987
July 12, 2026
I played it as a kid, and it was an outstanding RTS game. The ability to merge troops, the hero units, and the base-building were outstanding for their timeā€”and still are today.
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user avatar@UltraViol8ruser avatar@UltraViol8r
July 13, 2026
The nearby computer shop had this installed. I didn't know enough of the lore to dive into story mode, but i knew enough of the system that i could play several skirmish matches and enjoy each session. Granted, i knew so little that i'd always default to Gondor. Because Gandalf was fun.
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user avatar@CoXeYuser avatar@CoXeY
July 15, 2026
There hasn't been anything like it since. A game that matched the excitement of the franchised/license. I haven't watched a video or played it in at least over 15 years, but I can still remember the audio, UI, gameplay etc. So bloody good.
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user avatar@Crus1359user avatar@Crus1359
July 16, 2026
i am a huge fan of the lord of the rings and i have vary fond memories of playing this game with my brother in law and it was one of his favorites and i just want to play this again to hold tight to that memory since he has passed iv look ed and looked but have had no luck finding it to play.
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user avatar@Seattledub291user avatar@Seattledub291
July 17, 2026
I remember playing this game as a kid and making sure I never lost a squad on the good campaign and then playing the Evil campaigh and just having piles of dead Orcs. It was a good Risk type game for the LOTR series and was true to the movies, it's a shame this is basically abandonware at this point
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