12DOVE Verdict
Pros
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The look
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the feel
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the accuracy
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The Angmar faction
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Literally everything's been improved
Cons
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Splayed
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dynamic resource management
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Witchy-boy being afraid of girls
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Fighting against Angmars in multiplayer
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A glut of real-time strategy. A surfeit. A plethora even. That’s what 2006 feels like: one crispy, creamy confectionary after another. Well brace yourselves, here comes another, shining the light of Elendil onto an original that hardly needed it. Rise of the Witch-king is such an all-around quality follow-up to this spring’s The Battle for Middle-earth II that if you missed the original release, the expansion is all the reason you’ll need to pick up both.
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| Genre | Strategy |
| Description | Want more and bigger real-time strategy battles in Middle-earth? Add this to your buy pile post-haste and thank us (but mostly EA LA) in the morning. |
| Franchise name | Lord of the Rings |
| UK franchise name | Lord Of The Rings |
| Platform | "PC" |
| US censor rating | "Teen" |
| UK censor rating | "" |
| Alternative names | "LotR: The Battle for Middle-earth II The Rise of the Witch-king" |
| Release date | 1 January 1970 (US), 1 January 1970 (UK) |
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