This is a 3D view of a living, breathing Middle-earth, divided into more than 30 provinces, each of which has special properties that you earn when you control it. This way, you can control the armies of good or evil as you march across the world of Middle-earth, conquering province after province along the way.Īt the heart of the campaign game is the living world map, which is exactly what it sounds like. The game does this by combining an overarching turn-based campaign that's stitched together with real-time strategy missions, allowing you to decide where to take the fight to next. What makes The Battle for Middle-earth work is the fact that it allows you to rewrite the history of the War of the Ring as either the forces of good or the forces of evil. While some might have expected that The Battle for Middle-earth would rival the size and scope of a certain other major real-time strategy game released this year, the truth is that it's more on the scale of traditional real-time strategy games, though its battles are still quite big. Now Playing: The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth Video Review
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