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LOTR:BFME2 ringing up demo

Reader Matt points out that  "demo walkthrough"  video for LOTR: The Battle For Middle Earth II, now available on XBLM, likely indicates a playabe demo of this ring-rocking RTS isn't far off. Nice deductive reasoning, Matt. No seriously, thanks for the tip.

Would you like to see more real-time strategy games on your favorite console?

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1. On Gamespot their is an advert for LOTR: The Battle For Middle Earth II which promises that a demo is coming soon, or is it refering to the demo walkthrough?

Posted at 5:01AM on Jul 12th 2006 by Richard 0 stars

2. Yes I want to see more RTS games on consoles! :-)

Posted at 9:53AM on Jul 12th 2006 by [email protected] 0 stars

3. Yeah I was pretty bewildered when the guy in the video said, "This is a short walkthrough for the demo which is now on XBOX Marketplace" and then "enjoy playing the demo now on XBOX Marketplace." Its seems kind of idiotic to put up a walkthrough video for a demo that doesn't exist. Is the demo available in other countries like the Chromehounds demo?

Posted at 10:00AM on Jul 12th 2006 by John 0 stars

4. Looks like they jumped the gun, demo should appear soon:
http://www.gamespot.com/promos/2006/battleformiddleearthx360/

Posted at 10:54AM on Jul 12th 2006 by Dave 0 stars

5. This game rocks if you are an RTS fan, love it.

Posted at 11:42AM on Jul 12th 2006 by Ben Hobbs 0 stars

6. The game is great. A good bit of slowdown during the heaviest of battles where literally the entire screen is filled with characters, but otherwise the Game so far is definitely a good buy.

Oh and If you don't have FireFox Beta 2.0b1 you should get it. It has automatic Spell Checking. Save you from looking like a dotard due to typos. Works just like MS Word spell check on anything you type in the browser.

Posted at 12:51PM on Jul 12th 2006 by sputnik 0 stars

7. I have been enjoying this game for several days now, it’s been fun and surprisingly once you get the controls down its easy to play considering the lack of mouse/keyboard support. The only issue is that on a non HD TV set you might have trouble seeing things because of the fine detail when you are zoomed out so I would recommend a HD set. Yes the slowdowns exist but considering it was originally ported from the PC version I can’t complain. Hopefully this will put an end to the misconception that you need a keyboard and mouse to play these kinds of game on a console.

Posted at 1:07PM on Jul 12th 2006 by Ice Raider 0 stars

8. I would looooove to see other RTS games on the Xbox 360. I mean, I'll all for the future RTS games, but I think the big money maker would be the older games. All warcrafts, starcraft, command & conquers, rise of legends. They would all make really big money on the 360.

-B

Posted at 5:13PM on Jul 12th 2006 by BenDoverx 0 stars

9. More RTS games on the Xbox 360 plz! ;) BFME2 openned the main door!

Posted at 9:28AM on Jul 13th 2006 by Methodic 0 stars

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