Though relatively brief, the campaign deserves some credit for veering away from the standard real-time strategy mission design of having you sit back for 30 minutes and build up your army before crushing the enemy. When you get down to it, Angmar is a very powerful and hard-hitting faction.
Angmar can also summon a powerful and huge spectral wolf, which is sort of the equivalent of the balrog, as well as huge avalanches that bury enemy battalions. And then there are thrall masters that can summon a variety of different units to the battlefield instantly, such as wolf riders and spearmen. There are sorcerers who cast powerful spells, though they must sacrifice followers to power that magic. Angmar is a troll-heavy faction, so instead of horse cavalry, you get to stampede the enemy with formations of trolls. The campaign, which runs around seven missions, chronicles how the Witch-King stages a comeback by uniting the various evil factions of the north to form the kingdom of Angmar and crushing the ancient kingdom of Arnor in the process.Īngmar represents the only new faction in the expansion, because Arnor is basically a recycled Men of the West faction with a handful of new units. Centuries later, the Witch-King rallies evil once again. After Sauron was defeated by the alliance of men and elves-and his powerful One Ring was lost-the forces of evil were sent reeling in defeat. The expansion is set after the epic battle that was seen at the opening of the film The Fellowship of the Ring. The Angmar faction is the main new addition in the expansion, and it's playable in a brief single-player campaign and in multiplayer.įor the uninitiated, the Witch-King is the dark lord Sauron's main lieutenant and the head of the Nazgul, the sinister black-robed generals of his army.
With the new campaign and new faction, The Rise of the Witch-King is a standard expansion pack. With the Rise of the Witch-King expansion, EA mines uncharted territory by digging deep into the past of Middle-earth and centering the action on one of its most enigmatic characters.
The first game let you command the armies of good and evil, as well as re-create the events and battles of the movies, while Battle for Middle-earth II took place in and revolved around events in the north. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings novels, seen most famously in Peter Jackson's movie trilogy. Over the course of two Battle for Middle-earth games, EA has managed to thoroughly explore the events of J.R.R.
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