


The six playable factions are: Men of the West, Elves, Goblins, Dwarves, Mordor, and Isengard. The two single-player campaigns – good and evil – allow you to select your allegiance in the great battles to ensue. There have been many variations on the story of our beloved hobbits, elves, and dwarves BFME2 tells the story of what the books and movies mostly skipped over, that of the battles of armies of both light and dark.īFME2 is a basic real-time strategy, a time-tested and well-refined genre structures are built, resources are created, and units are produced. It ranges across the mythical world of Middle-earth and includes huge battles of vast armies as well as the personal intensity of the main characters' quest.

Tolkien and is the story of the one ring forged by the Dark Lord Sauron, and the quest of the fellowship (a group of hobbits with a dwarf, elf, and warrior king) to destroy it in the volcanic fires of its creation. Battle for Middle Earth 2 has a heritage far beyond the movies, hearkening back to the days when entertainment was referred to as "books." For anyone living under a rock for the last few decades, The Lord of the Rings was created by J.R.R. More and more frequently these days, we've seen movie-based games and often come away less than impressed. Games, books, and movies are quickly becoming one medium – games are being made from movies, books expand upon movies, and movies are based on video game characters.
