The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth (EVIL CAMPAIGN, FULL)

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  • The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth (EVIL CAMPAIGN, FULL)
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  • @aidansayshi123456789
    @aidansayshi123456789 2 місяці тому +38

    Ah, a new horde of orcs

    • @BelicoseBunny
      @BelicoseBunny 2 місяці тому +2

      and what, gul'dan must we give in return?

  • @sourmonkey71
    @sourmonkey71 2 місяці тому +10

    When I was a kid, I thought the pikemen were on the walls because they could stab people from up there. Made sense at the time.

  • @Berathan-dnd
    @Berathan-dnd 2 місяці тому +16

    This is nostalgic. I remember playing this game and the sequel a lot.

    • @Midala87
      @Midala87 2 місяці тому

      I had to pirate the second game but had bought the first one and was so hyped up over how smart and dynamic the AI is. I was told you could shoot the Mûmakil and they will rampage and go berserk. I never could make them do that and they just ending up dying anyways to arrows.

    • @VITAS874
      @VITAS874 Місяць тому

      Still playing

  • @majorpwner241
    @majorpwner241 2 місяці тому +8

    ...This game looks insanely good for 2004. Still very playable. Aged like fine wine.

  • @Nichelheim
    @Nichelheim 2 місяці тому +8

    AA !!! Haven’t seen the whole video yet, but at 1:20:55 you’re looking for an attack-move function. Just hit “A” before you issue your move command!!

  • @velarswood
    @velarswood 2 місяці тому +7

    I also would like to think this entire campain is played out between frodo and Galadrial when he offers her the ring and she goes full dark Mistress.

  • @Defixio.
    @Defixio. 2 місяці тому +9

    The seige mechanics in this are amazing

  • @PeterParkerspideypicscom
    @PeterParkerspideypicscom 2 місяці тому +95

    How the hell did you get it to run

    • @ambiguousamphibianvods
      @ambiguousamphibianvods  2 місяці тому +37

      There’s a patch that runs it on Windows 10 - still working on getting it running on 11. Works with the sequel too!

    • @ambiguousamphibianvods
      @ambiguousamphibianvods  2 місяці тому +50

      Although lately to run more of these old games I’ve set up an old Windows XP machine with a capture card because some of them are really stubborn. There’s surprisingly a number of eBay sellers who deal in tricked out XP machines with modern architecture

    • @velarswood
      @velarswood 2 місяці тому +18

      Sauron shares no secrets of optimizing his rings.

    • @henrysonlychannel1303
      @henrysonlychannel1303 2 місяці тому +7

      @@ambiguousamphibianvods lol that's fucking great

    • @krishurlburt7375
      @krishurlburt7375 2 місяці тому

      Install the disk, and capability to Windows XP. Or just install windows XP

  • @brennanharrup522
    @brennanharrup522 2 місяці тому +5

    Criminally underrated LOTR game: Sierra’s 2003 The Hobbit

  • @kalajel
    @kalajel 2 місяці тому +5

    You can't level up Christopher Lee, he's already anime protagonist level.

  • @LordCybot
    @LordCybot 21 день тому +2

    “Oh man Christopher Lee did the voice over, so great, let me turn the volume up.”
    *Proceeds to talk over voiceover so you cant hear it.*
    Why.

    • @IAmCaligvla
      @IAmCaligvla 18 днів тому

      No silence allowed, gotta keep talking to drive that engagement up.

    • @RagnellAvalon
      @RagnellAvalon 14 днів тому

      @@IAmCaligvla People make fun of this but for whatever reason it's true. If you're not constantly running at the mouth people really do just lose interest and find something else to watch, regardless of what you're doing; the people who *don't* are typically your core audience that you already had. Human brain bad

  • @SWEanjela123
    @SWEanjela123 2 місяці тому +3

    The thing about enmassing trolls is they knock each other down when they are about to die but otherwise fun.

  • @brennanharrup522
    @brennanharrup522 2 місяці тому +3

    An amazing game that I loved playing growing up! A quick tip before you start the 2nd game: I believe you can make numbered squads (select a group, press ctrl-1 through ctrl-9) and select them later with the number. Double tapping that number should center your screen on the squad as well.

  • @gurra981
    @gurra981 Місяць тому +4

    if you pressed A on your keyboard you use the comannd to walk to a set destination and attack everything thats along the way

  • @efitz1524
    @efitz1524 26 днів тому +2

    I loved playing Isengard as a kid because they look the coolest, but they are objectively the worst faction. If you play skirmish with hard-level AIs of each faction they are, almost always, the first to be eliminated.

  • @ClanWiE
    @ClanWiE 2 місяці тому +4

    The adjectival form "Rohirric" is common; Tolkien once also used "Rohanese". From wikipedia

    • @FreeSamich
      @FreeSamich 2 місяці тому

      Or they might say Eorling lands as well. Tolkien certainly enjoyed leaving a variety of options to describe each peoples lol

    • @the_ogre1234
      @the_ogre1234 21 день тому

      Eorlings and Rohirim also work

  • @helixwolf100
    @helixwolf100 Місяць тому

    I watched the full good play through and appreciate the additional content! Gotta give it up for Cristopher Lee 🤩

  • @thessjbacca5177
    @thessjbacca5177 Місяць тому

    Im not sure if someone has mentioned this already but you talked about your crossbowman having bad range compared to the enemies. This is actually genius because Crossbows are shorter ranged than Longbows by alot usually.

  • @Necrospire
    @Necrospire 2 місяці тому

    Amazing! Purely astonishing gameplay!

  • @HeraldSchimdtt
    @HeraldSchimdtt 2 місяці тому

    Oh my god youve unlocked deep memories, thank you so much for this, i loved this game so much cant believe i forgot about it

  • @timothylarson6515
    @timothylarson6515 3 дні тому

    Love the pike and uruk-bowman combo. Or full on melee with swords and pikes. Waves is the evil zerg strike

    • @timothylarson6515
      @timothylarson6515 3 дні тому

      Legolas and Gandalf have the best upward abilities. Though aragon with the ghost army is cool, but timed out

  • @Kaff_Kesk
    @Kaff_Kesk 2 місяці тому

    played this as a kid. Fried my dad's PC downloading "trainers" from sketchy websites.

  • @ImmersiveReactions
    @ImmersiveReactions 2 місяці тому

    If you havent go check out some of the modding projects some have been going for 10 years and its really impressive

  • @deadeyecf5315
    @deadeyecf5315 Місяць тому

    Yessssssssssss. I played LOTR BFMII on 360 growing up. Such a phenomenal RTS.

  • @bjon92
    @bjon92 2 місяці тому

    Love the Vods def would have helped knowing Q selected all units :D

    • @fowleyuhger842
      @fowleyuhger842 Місяць тому

      Yeah I used internet archives to replay this as an adult and was amazed how many critical controls are shortcuts kids never knew about

  • @wasted828
    @wasted828 2 місяці тому

    ive tried finding a PC port of bfme2 for YEARS before giving up, could never get them to work. super nostalgic game for me, honestly i think it and halo wars were the only reason i ended up getting into computers later down the road.

    • @small_1337
      @small_1337 Місяць тому

      Just Google bfme all in one launcher on UA-cam

  • @TealWolf26
    @TealWolf26 2 місяці тому +2

    *GASP* The GOAT! I love BFME1.

    • @velarswood
      @velarswood 2 місяці тому

      The only game I liked more was star wars empire at War n its forces of corruption dlc. Or "expansion pack" if you're old like me, lol

  • @fourthknower9831
    @fourthknower9831 22 дні тому

    there is an attack move command in BFME. I think it's like, control A? or A move
    I belive that it's covered in the game tutorial school lmao

  • @alwaysneutral2100
    @alwaysneutral2100 2 місяці тому

    I want to play this game again so very badly. This game on 360 (or was it the sequel?) spawned my love for RTS games.

    • @fowleyuhger842
      @fowleyuhger842 Місяць тому

      The sequel was, this is free on internet archives for everyone for all time

    • @fowleyuhger842
      @fowleyuhger842 Місяць тому

      Oh and so is the second one

  • @Sazabi4prez
    @Sazabi4prez Місяць тому

    Battle for Middle-Earth 2 when ?

  • @philippmarx8362
    @philippmarx8362 2 місяці тому +3

    Uh a shame that IT isnt on gog, Lord of the Rings licence

    • @ambiguousamphibianvods
      @ambiguousamphibianvods  2 місяці тому +3

      Tell me about it! I’d love a GOG release too

    • @philippmarx8362
      @philippmarx8362 2 місяці тому

      @@ambiguousamphibianvods the licence stuff is for lord of the rings games is hard to the understand, i See nö chance sadly for a remake

  • @cinder4181
    @cinder4181 Місяць тому

    Oh my god this is the greatest lord of the rings game. My freaking favorite. How the hell you get it to run???

  • @PyonGGamer
    @PyonGGamer 2 місяці тому

    The Lord of the Rings were amazing! you should play War in the Nord

  • @DKArmstrong
    @DKArmstrong 2 місяці тому

    I'v been replaying C&C3, it's in the same engine and these games do feel really good.

  • @calebharris7352
    @calebharris7352 Місяць тому

    eEeViLl voice crack of hell. Sensational

  • @SanguineGamer
    @SanguineGamer 2 місяці тому +2

    Not sure if you ever saw my message on the last video but Q selects all and A is attack move :3

  • @majikslim82
    @majikslim82 Місяць тому

    Gotta go with 2. It may be the greatest rts ever made.

  • @Whiteshadowsyoutube
    @Whiteshadowsyoutube Місяць тому

    Ahhh I see someone else grew up on greatness

  • @VITAS874
    @VITAS874 Місяць тому

    There is also rts before film game

  • @Aman1996kaa
    @Aman1996kaa 2 місяці тому

    Lord of the rings conquest is a fantastic game give it a go

  • @dochallah1721
    @dochallah1721 2 місяці тому

    THIS IS AWESOME
    I LOVE THIS GAME

  • @Zeusjuice4567
    @Zeusjuice4567 21 день тому

    I wish they would remaster these games

  • @carlosgalaron7878
    @carlosgalaron7878 2 місяці тому

    trolling all the way to Minas Tirith lol

  • @fabiofsk8223
    @fabiofsk8223 2 місяці тому

    Im honestly surprised I didn't know about this game

  • @LoganBeacom-ik5jw
    @LoganBeacom-ik5jw 2 місяці тому

    Not 'Rohanian'. Rohirrim is what someone from Rohan is

  • @Raynar124
    @Raynar124 2 місяці тому

    Battle for middle earth 2 was the good one

  • @justinbutler117
    @justinbutler117 2 місяці тому +3

    Then there was battle for Middle Earth 2. Which is on console but not on the game stores 0:25

    • @exaltedcrayon5771
      @exaltedcrayon5771 Місяць тому

      2nd one was on pc alongside the Angmar expansion. Used to have the discs but have since lost them.

    • @justinbutler117
      @justinbutler117 Місяць тому

      @@exaltedcrayon5771 would have loved to get that one

  • @EyebrowsGaming
    @EyebrowsGaming Місяць тому

    Brother is your voice alright?

  • @cz8876
    @cz8876 2 місяці тому

    Personally I recall LOTR: BFME II being the superior version! But that might be nostalgia speaking- I never played much of this one, just the second one.

  • @odditiescollector4540
    @odditiescollector4540 2 місяці тому

    how did you get the campaigns to work as i downloaded and managed to get the game to work via abandonware but i couldnt get the campaigns to work

  • @justinbutler117
    @justinbutler117 2 місяці тому

    This game is excellent

  • @christopherbricker3805
    @christopherbricker3805 2 місяці тому

    Yes, Indeed

  • @EddieSpaghetti69
    @EddieSpaghetti69 Місяць тому

    If you want to see how far BFME came from, this engine is the same engine that ran Star Wars Empire at War; and if you want some solid proof *the game uses force duels for those animations that lock.* Whenever a Troll is "Boppin' another over the head" that's from EaW where many of the Hero-Villain fights will "snap" into combat, which is what some of the hero-villain matchups in BFME do as well; with the mechanics remaining *exactly the same* from EaW.
    Try out the Cinematic Camera when you're finishing up a mission. It's designed to try to follow matchups for fights as well as trying to follow arrows and charges.
    Many of our modern games use *ancient* engines. Bethesda and Epic Megagames both use their same engines from when their companies were conceived, just changed slightly to work on modern systems or sometimes to re-use existing architecture; every time you climb into Power Armor in Fallout 4 that's the Werewolf code from Skyrim and all of the "debuffs" are spells to the engine, even Skyrim has a secret setting for Radio's and broadcasting as it's based off of the same engine that was used in Fallout 3.
    Truly *nothing new under the sun* once again; but it's notable how many times people can literally re-purpose the same wheel with a new schlack of paint infinitely.

  • @98loud
    @98loud 2 місяці тому

    Sir you are simply incorrect for not mentioning the LoR Battlefront clone that I can't currently remember the name lf

  • @andrewvaldez8866
    @andrewvaldez8866 Місяць тому +2

    1:21:43 i’m guessing he never ever played an RTS before lol it’s always been control a that is the attack move. It’s I swear they teach it to you, but maybe I’m just like imagining things.

    • @jarrenm4760
      @jarrenm4760 8 днів тому

      You know when I started playing video games 15 years ago I wasn't very good. AA somehow gets worse. Also, when he colabs with people he doesn't really listen to them, making him sound dismissing at times. It might just be me.

  • @SomeDudeItWas
    @SomeDudeItWas 2 місяці тому

    How can I play this game now? Its not listed anywhere I can find

  • @justinbutler117
    @justinbutler117 2 місяці тому

    11:21 wizard is blasting you away, what more do you want from a name

  • @elWhiteNinja1
    @elWhiteNinja1 2 місяці тому

    is there no attack move in this game? I don't remember

  • @justinbutler117
    @justinbutler117 2 місяці тому

    1:28 yes there is, you can shut it and put archers on the walls. Rookie mistake

  • @justinbutler117
    @justinbutler117 2 місяці тому

    7:12 nah, either faction can be stepped on

  • @justinbutler117
    @justinbutler117 2 місяці тому

    8:28 could shut the gate and funnel them to the other opening. I thought you'd have better strategy

  • @justinbutler117
    @justinbutler117 2 місяці тому

    4:57 only against swordsmen. Horses or mounted will desomate them

  • @justinbutler117
    @justinbutler117 2 місяці тому

    4:46 double production with a second building. Second rookie mistake

  • @denysbeker-te1en
    @denysbeker-te1en 2 місяці тому

    Yes!!!!

  • @velarswood
    @velarswood 2 місяці тому

    I just remember getting frustrated thst my army wiuld get killed by 10 horsemen so i would just spam spears and some archers. The goblins were so bad lol. I think thatbwas the second game. I was like 14 and still remember some battles

  • @justinbutler117
    @justinbutler117 2 місяці тому

    12:19 at this point the eye doesn't know where they are so why would the generals

  • @leonnubs
    @leonnubs 2 місяці тому

    The sequel better

  • @conaghero
    @conaghero 2 місяці тому

    This guy has the easiest setup for the game and all the mods in an all in one launcher! Enjoy!
    ua-cam.com/video/8tIsgXEHinE/v-deo.htmlsi=uI8mmaQCceLwB_Tr