The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth 2004

Is it still worth playing?

EA Los Angeles' 2004 real time strategy game for Windows, based on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy, with short video clips from the movies and several of the voice actors. Warring factions gather resources and build military bases and armies on site. Buildings can only be built on the slots of predefined plots, which range from farmhouses to full fledged castles. There is a single resource, produced inexhaustibly in dedicated buildings. Four factions on two sides wage the War of the Ring, among them Rohan, Gondor, Isengard and Mordor. Units follow a rock paper scissors system: cavalry beat archers, pikemen beat cavalry, swordsmen beat pikemen and archers beat swordsmen. Who you bring against whom is still the question of every army, since the counters run in a circle.