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The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II
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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/March 2, 2013 by BencherliteTalk 16:21, 14 February 2013‎ (UTC)

 The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II (BFMEII) is a real-time strategy video game by Electronic Arts. It is based on the fantasy novels The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings live-action film trilogy. The game is the sequel to Electronic Arts' 2004 title The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth. The Windows version of the game was released on March 2, 2006, and the Xbox 360 version was released on July 5, 2006. In the game, the Good Campaign focuses on Glorfindel, an Elf who, with help from the Dwarves and other Good forces, attempts to eliminate Sauron and his army to restore peace in Middle-earth. In the Evil Campaign, Sauron sends the Mouth of Sauron and the Nazgûl to muster wild Goblins as part of his plan to destroy the remaining Good forces with his army. BFMEII received generally favorable reviews from video game critics. Reviews praised the game's integration of the Lord of the Rings universe into a real-time strategy title, while criticism targeted the game's unbalanced multiplayer mode. BFMEII received numerous awards, including the Editors' Choice Award from IGN.

3 points total: 2 points for Age (promoted on January 27, 2009; four years ago). 7-year anniversary, so that's just 1 point. Last video game-related article was Bastion from today (January 30), so that's over a month from this date and therefore no points are removed. I'm unsure if the final version of this blurb should have the image or not? It perhaps is too unrelated to the article to be included. And he's facing the wrong way. Gary King ( talk  ·  scripts )  17:29, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Points look good. Blurb expanded to get closer to the 1,200 character target. Not crazy about the image - particularly because it's of Tolkein many years before he wrote the LOTR. I think it might be better imageless, as tends to happen with video games - I can't immediately see anything else to use. BencherliteTalk 17:50, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
 * The picture should be replaced with File:Hugo w.jpg or similar. Regards.--Tomcat (7) 14:14, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
 * That's a poor-quality image of someone who doesn't merit a mention in the lead of the article. How would you rewrite the blurb to mention him (so that the blurb could say who the photo was of) while keeping to the 1,200 character limit for the blurb? BencherliteTalk 19:19, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Why should he be mentioned? Tolkien did not work on that video game, so it does not make sense. Regards.--Tomcat (7) 22:03, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Can we remove the Tolkien picture? I don't see how it is very relevant to the game. Sure, it's based on one of his works, but he's not directly connected to the game. Double sharp (talk) 03:08, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree.--Chimino (talk) 02:13, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Done. In the absence of any appropriate picture, I think this one (if scheduled) just has to run without an image, as often happens for VGs. BencherliteTalk 19:06, 5 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment: Can't we get some sort of image that's both free-use and relevant here for the blurb? Perhaps a map of Middle-earth of some kind? Or how about commons:File:Bee-wax candle pretends to be Barad-dûr.jpg or something from commons:Category:Middle-earth places? &mdash; Cirt (talk) 15:40, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * The map in Middle-earth is non-free, the candle image is... odd, and the commons category is chock-full of irrelevant coats of arms and dubious fan art. Nothing's jumping out at me, I must say, in much the same way that nothing to date appears to have jumped out to attract the attention of the principal authors of the article.  BencherliteTalk 18:02, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * How about File:Unico Anello.png - the One Ring is surely a pretty good symbol of the topic, and it's a free image. Prioryman (talk) 19:48, 6 February 2013 (UTC)