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by FABIO 12/08/2004, 2:44pm PST

Okay I was judging heroes by their performance in the single player campaign. In multiplayer they're a long term investment. They're expensive and don't start out that strong but as they level up their abilties that make them good become available. The exception are Mordor's Nazguls which are fantastically expensive but start out fantastically strong and maxed out.

I was also wrong about hobbits only being in the campaign :(. All sides basically have a "starting hero" that's extremely cheap and pretty much good for nothing but early scouting. For the evil sides it's Gollum, for the good it's Merry or Pippin. Merry and Pippin will make you wish there was a way to turn unit voices off. As you click and move them around they will bombard you with annoying lines about being hungry and wanting breakfast and asking you if they can have some bacon that I'm sure some retard found cute. Again, EA, NOBODY WANTS ANY GODDAMN HOBBITS IN THEIR GAMES! The only people who liked Hobbits in the movies are the people who collect adorable snowglobes, not the kind of people that buy videogames.

Playing Mordor is very fun. Orcs are completely free. You just set up orc pits, queue up dozens of the suckers, and send them right off as cannon fodder. Most fun sending hordes of expendable units to their deaths since zerglings. If you hit your population max you can order them to fight each other and the winners get combat experience and become stronger. Natural selection at its finest. Slaughterhouse buildings (you can watch cows tentatively walk into a room, hear them scream, and an orc walk out to hang up a slab of met) provide a steady income on their own, but you can send orcs into it to be "processed" and receive extra money. Set your orc pit rally point directly onto a slaughter house if you want and cut out the middleman.

Idle animation are great. Leave a group of orcs lying around doing nothing and one will pick a fight with another until they start brawling and the rest form a circle around the two and cheer. Put two trolls close together and one will bump the other which will eventually escalate into a slap fight.