![]() ![]() ![]() Or you can split them into teams and bookmark them, and using a central cursor, move across the entire map with relative ease. You can command single units, the full army, and unit types such as all archers or all cavalry. ![]() The on-field command system is sleek looking and relatively efficient. With it open, you can command a bookmarking section and access builders, heroes, and the powers menu. Naturally, during the final battle versus Sauron and Sauramon using the Palatir was an unwise thing to do, but here it serves as a symbol, an icon, from which to do your business, untainted by Sauron's flaming eye. By pulling and holding a trigger, a sleek HUD appears on the lower left-hand side of the screen in the form of a Palantir. The control scheme is primarily based on the Xbox 360's triggers, with minimal usage of face buttons and bumpers. I'll even go so far as to say they work better than any other console RTS - period.īuild vast armies and then fight like a raging dwarf from hell! The controls aren't perfect and they're by no means the equivalent to the quick, precision controls of the PC's mouse and keyboard duo, but they do in fact work. Working with Louis Castle from Westwood fame and a slew of expert RTS developers from its Los Angeles office, EA thought about and constructed a control scheme built to play intuitively and smartly from a console player's perspective. This game handles console controls differently and it's mainly why the game works so well. Ninety-nine percent of the console RTS titles thrown onto consoles were badly ported PC games, titles that occasionally tried to generate a new way of handling console controls but didn't work, and those that simply didn't cut the mustard. Unless you've been sharing a cave with Golem for the past few years, real-time strategies on consoles have unquestionably failed. Battle for Middle-earth II takes the eponymous PC game and shows EA hard at work not only building a franchise, but mining the console market, the Xbox 360 market specifically, for potential gold. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
December 2022
Categories |