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The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth

Original title: The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth - December 6, 2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth
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Director:Richard Taylor
Studio:Electronic Arts
Stars:Andy Serkis, Billy Boyd, Christopher Lee - Full View
Soundtrack:Original score by Bill Brown and Jamie Christopherson, layered with Howard Shore's licensed film music, A digital-only soundtrack of 22 tracks, running about 44 minutes, was released on 28 August 2006
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Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 2004
Winner
2004
Award
Game
GIGA Games Award 2005
Winner
2005

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Game Details
DeveloperIGDB
EA Los Angeles
PublisherIGDB
Electronic Arts
Studio
Electronic Arts
GenresIGDB
Strategy, Real Time Strategy (RTS)
Platforms
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Release DateIGDB
December 6, 2004
Metacritic ScoreMetacritic
82
Game Engine
SAGE

The players control the heroes or villians from the famous Lord of The Rings movies. With a hero characters similar to the Warcraft series you control both the armies and all the unique heroes. The game follows the movies very closely and even got scenes from the films appear in game. Not only does the game contain a giant campaign where you play through the journey of the ring as the good side, the game also features an evil campaign where as the players play as the evil forces of Middle Earth. With multiple diffrent races from all over Middle Earth, a giant spell tree to customize your game and a unique basebuilding layout the game was great for its time.

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Last updated: 02.08.2026
Business
Budget
Not disclosed
RevenueReported
1,000,000+ units worldwide by the end of 2004; 230,000 units in the US by August 2006, plus an ELSPA Gold sales award in the UK for over 200,000 copies

EA never disclosed a development budget or a revenue figure. Unit sales passed one million worldwide by the end of 2004, with 230,000 of those in the United States by August 2006, and the game earned an ELSPA Gold sales certification in the UK for passing 200,000 copies.

Time to Beat
Main Story25h
Main + Extras30h
Completionist36h
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Content Rating
Violence
USK 12
ACB MA 15+
PEGI 12
ESRB T
System Requirements
Minimum
OS:Windows 2000/XP · CPU: 1.3 GHz (Pentium 4 / Athlon) · RAM: 256 MB · GPU: NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS or ATI Radeon 7500 with 32 MB VRAM · DirectX 9.0b · Disk: 3.5 GB
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Data aggregated from 3 sources: IGDB, RAWG, Metacritic
Last updated: 02.08.2026