I was only just lamenting the fate of EA’s Lord of the Rings strategy games, and here we go: some fans are remaking Battle for Middle Earth in Unreal Engine 4, in essence creating an almost all-new game.
This new project is called The Battle for Middle-Earth: Reforged, and while it shares the same name as its official forebears, the move to a new engine has meant “all code is being rewritten completely”, which might result in some changes to how the game feels and plays compared to the originals.
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The team behind it are hoping to add some new stuff like destructible terrain (and Deeping Walls) and 4K support, with a playable build planned for release in early 2019. Sadly it’s multiplayer-only for now, with a campaign “a secondary task”.