Executive producer Mike Verdu has written some final thoughts regarding the process of bringing Battle for Middle Earth II to life in a new article, "The Executive Producer's Journey". An excerpt:
We started out with rather modest aspirations--but then EA unified the film and literary rights for The Lord of the Rings and we started to understand what an epic opportunity we had in front of us. We adjusted to aim much higher--to make a world-class sequel that would include an entire game's worth of new features and content and all of the units, structures, and locations from the first game. We wanted to create the ultimate Middle-earth experience with all of the races, places, heroes, and battles from both the books and the films.
Read the entire article
here at GameSpot.