The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II 2006

Is it still worth playing?

Electronic Arts' 2006 real time strategy game based on Tolkien's novels and the film series, the sequel to The Battle for Middle-earth. You build a base with structures that produce units, gather resources, research upgrades and set up defenses, and you win a match by eliminating all the enemy's unit producing structures. You can build an unlimited number of structures anywhere on the map, and walls to defend your base, though only close to your fortress, plus arrow and catapult towers on building plots around it. Each unit class has unique strengths and weaknesses, so matching units properly matters in battle. Hero units are unique, since only one of each can be created. A base you can build anywhere on the map still gives every game its own layout.