Gamespot-Review

Auch Gamespot hatte nun die Gelegenheit einen Test zu SuM durchzuführen. Am Ende herausgekommen ist eine Wertung von 8,4 „Great“.

Ein Ausschnitt:

Gandalf didn’t „die“ in Moria. In fact, the old wizard slapped down the Balrog and marched out of the mountain with the rest of the fellowship. Meanwhile, King Theoden of Rohan managed to get cut down at Helm’s Deep and, oh yeah, Boromir lives. Is this revisionist fantasy history at work? No, it’s just a campaign as the good guys in The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth, EA’s real-time strategy game that spans the entire saga of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings movies. The Battle for Middle-earth has a lot going for it: This is a big game packed with beautiful graphics and two huge campaigns. And while it doesn’t achieve the same epic sense of scale as Jackson’s movies, it’s still an engrossing and well-made real-time strategy game that captures the essence of J.R.R. Tolkien’s wondrous world.

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