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. Whether the story allows for branching or linear missions is still up for debate, but Rahimi said the maps that are used for the campaign will be available for multiplayer play as well.Over the course of two Battle for Middle-earth games, EA has managed to thoroughly explore the events of J.R.R. The story will have roughly eight to 12 missions. What they learned is that the community wants more new units to existing forces, more functionality in the create-a-hero sandbox and more "War of the Ring." Along with that, the development team is trying to improve on just about every feature in The Battle for Middle-earth II, Rahimi said. It is in this setting that EA is expanding on the original game, listening more to the game's community to see what it wants, said producer Amir Rahimi. It is also here that the Witch-king battles - and eventually defeats - the forebears of Aragorn, the ranger from the north and the eventual king of men. The land is divided into three separate realms by the king's sons, and the Witch-king sees this as a much easier target on which to build his power than Gondor, the stronger kingdom to the south. The Witch-king's target is Arnor, a kingdom of men in turmoil because of the death of their king.
The Rise of the Witch-king is a single-campaign expansion that details the Nazgul's reign and traces his path of devastation from a northwest realm of Middle-earth known as Angmar. and the time Electronic Arts has chosen in which to set its first expansion pack for Battle for Middle-earth II. Isildur is long since dead at the hand of orcs and the One Ring waits in murky waters, its evil still slowly pervading the land. Sauron waits in the shadows after losing his hand and the One Ring to Isildur in the final battle. One thousand years have passed since the Battle of the Last Alliance.
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