I guess the idea here is less micro management and more action gaming, which I must say is fine with me as it does make for a very simple and fun RTS, however there certainly comes a point where an RTS perhaps is a little too basic fundamentally, and BFME is probably the best example of this that I can think of in recent memory. All you do is select one of the spare building blocks in town and select your desired building. You don't even have to make civilians to build for you, that is all taken care of. For example, camp/town management is dead simple - you build the required buildings for whatever it is you want to do, such as archery ranges, farms etc, and you let the game take care of the rest. Right from the start of the tutorial missions, it will become clear that BFME is not a complicated RTS, in fact you'd be hard pressed to find an RTS that was as simple as BFME.
For such a popular movie series you would have thought surely any game based on it would ride easy on selling just on name and not on quality, but it really seems EA LA have made BFME's quality a top priority. This is a great setup, as it doesn't really feel like your typical movie based game, rather, it feels like a unique game with no restrictions that happens to feature media from the official movie series which does nothing more than add value to the game. However, fortunately BFME doesn't just restrict itself to the movie, the actual storyline plays out differently in some regards, but when it does use movie elements, it uses them well. In a sense EA were quite smart to focus their attention on the movie, giving them a pre-made structure to follow, with pre-made media to boot, and with the whole trilogy now out of the way, it means pretty much everything from start to finish is at their disposal. Lets face it, the movie series was great, and it most certainly created a whole new generation of LoTR fans, even if their newly found interest is the result of "big bad Hollywood" and not the original works of Tolkien. BFME is licensed from the very popular LoTR movie series as you may have guessed from the intro, so you can expect to see various outakes from the movie included.
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