Battle for Middle-Earth II on 360

By Tom Bramwell Published 13 January, 2006

First Rings game for Live, too.

Electronic Arts is planning to bring The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-Earth II (what a time to discover the comma) to Xbox 360 this summer.

The real-time strategy game, based on the PC version due out March 3rd, will be the first Rings game to work on Xbox Live too.

In development at EA Los Angeles, it promises "new and intuitive console-specific control scheme" suitable for novices and experts alike. A PROMISE IS A PROMISE, EA. REMEMBER THAT.

Shouting aside, it's also worth mentioning that it looks quite nice, as you can see if you check out the two screenshots EA pumped into our inbox just now.

We'll have more on both versions of the game in the run up to their respective releases.

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Comments (17) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Xerx3s #1 6 years ago

    "new and intuitive console-specific control scheme"

    A mouse then?

  • HarryB #2 6 years ago

    no, a cursor controller by the dpad... yeah!!!!

  • alimokrane #3 6 years ago

    Yet another Cash Making port to a new console .....

  • GuiltySpark #4 6 years ago

    "Yet another Cash Making port to a new console ..... "

    as opposed to all those other games that arent trying to make money?

  • guybrush #5 6 years ago

    Command & conquer and Warcraft were released for the PS and Saturn, probably not very successfully because no similar games were released for PS2 or XBOX. So now there trying again, it will be interesting to see how they do it, but don't count on pleasing the experts.

  • jack_klugman #6 6 years ago

    as opposed to all those other games that arent trying to make money?

    God I hate them...

  • Lukus #7 6 years ago

    Looks nice though!... (:

  • Xerx3s #8 6 years ago

    leftstick = move cursor. rightstick = rotate screen + zoom. triggers = left & right mouse button. start for quit menu.

  • UncleLou #9 6 years ago

    leftstick = move cursor. rightstick = rotate screen + zoom. triggers = left & right mouse button. start for quit menu.

    Nightmare.

    kb+m support for HD consoles FTW.

    /starts petition

  • Freek #10 6 years ago

    I have Red Alert for the PSX, works great, it's how I learned to play the game. Totaly smoked my friends a couple weeks later at a LAN party on the PC version.

  • BartonFink #11 6 years ago

    Ah to hell with it I'm with Uncle Lou kb&m support for HD consoles now.

    /signs petition.

  • UncleLou #12 6 years ago

    I'd have no problem with making them non-functionable in online FPS games! :)

  • BartonFink #13 6 years ago

    LOL - lets not go there you know better.

    I've had a hard enough day around here as it it ;)

  • Dragul #14 6 years ago

    Quote from guybrush: "Command & conquer and Warcraft were released for the PS and Saturn, probably not very successfully because no similar games were released for PS2 or XBOX. So now there trying again, it will be interesting to see how they do it, but don't count on pleasing the experts." end quote.

    Well except Age of Empires 2 for the PS2...

  • brutal #15 6 years ago

    Ok, so it's on live. Like every other single 360 game HAS to be live?

    i.e. live aware or are they actually going to push the boat out and have some gameplay in there too?

    And are these games actually any good? Like C&C good back in the day?

  • thegamesthething #16 6 years ago

    there was a warhammer RTS on the ps or ps2 too - dark omen?

    and kessen

  • Xerx3s #17 6 years ago

    Yes, and c&c on the n64. And Starcraft i believe. Ow, and that tbs game about hem yakees on the xbx a while back aswell.

    Still, the xbx doesnt need a mouse and keyboard (although i have nothing against it), but some sort of wireless precision instrument would be nice. Could be a trackerball or a mouse of some sort. Or a joypad with a trackerball.