{"id":1519,"date":"2006-04-20T19:07:57","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T00:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/04\/20\/review-the-lord-of-the-rings-battle-for-middle-earth-ii-game\/"},"modified":"2007-11-23T23:08:10","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T04:08:10","slug":"review-the-lord-of-the-rings-battle-for-middle-earth-ii-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/04\/20\/1519-review-the-lord-of-the-rings-battle-for-middle-earth-ii-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth II game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Not so long ago it was Star Wars, now it&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings that gets the real-time strategy (RTS) treatment. In many ways, Tolkien&#8217;s battle-heavy Middle-earth makes for an even more appropriate setting for the genre than Lucas&#8217; galactic conflict. As the title suggests, this is EA&#8217;s second stab at a The Lord of the Rings-themed RTS game. The original Battle for Middle-earth was a highly enjoyable but in some ways limited strategy game that focused squarely on the epic combat from the three film adaptations. [<a target=\"NEW\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcw.co.uk\/personal-computer-world\/software\/2154367\/lord-rings-battle-middle-earth\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not so long ago it was Star Wars, now it&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings that gets the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[107,18,130,90,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-merchandise","category-old-main-news","category-merchandise-other","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-ov","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}