The campaigns were pretty good too and I liked the heroes and how they leveled up. Skirmish mode added even more fun as you could play as Isengard and have Gondor as your allies. I remember once, the Dwarves (who were my enemies along with the goblins, Gondor were my allies) built these walls around their area which I was surprised with since I had never seen the computer AI do that before. I believe this only happens on certain maps though (as I saw it several times on the same map and several times in The Shire map). The battle against the Dwarves was fun and actually lasted for hours. Both of us destroyed the entire battlefield and you could see the fire scorch marks everywhere. Best battle ever, it almost resembled an apocalyptic battle.