Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™

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A game with many interesting mechanics and gameplay systems that unfortunately reach their full potential way too late in the game and along with below average story, characters, repetitive objectives, awful 5 first hours experience and a terrible quick time event finale it eventually becomes a disappointing experience.

Well I played this game for months long back but forgot to make a review imo. The overall story is pretty wack and the characters are just there with an extremely ♥♥♥♥♥♥ quick time event final boss. What makes this game better even with these flaws is the nemesis system which makes have rivals in game that is your own story and with the Arkham combat you cannot do wrong. The game gets a lot more fun when you get the ability to brand urks, killing urks never gets boring this way. Be sure to buy the game bundle only when it's sale as it's on sale on every major event so you'll be just saving money.

One of the best games I have played. The story, combat, characters is perfefct. Also you dont need any knowledge of The Lord of the rings to play this. I also played this not knowing anything about TLOTR.

Good game

It's a controller game. Keyboard and mouse is an option only in name. The control scheme is awkward, the camera controls dreadful and the movement system clumsy beyond belief. The "sprint after landing" window is incredibly long. Also the window fails to actually capture the mouse (no matter the window setting), so I kept going over to my second monitor. The game continuously yells at you "HEY THIS IS A VIDEOGAME BTW", so there is absolutely no danger of any immersion. Few of the mechanics have any world/lore tie in, you collect points and "purchase" abilities. You get elf arrows from sucking off orcs and randomly in the environment. The story setup is also weak, mostly due to how straightforward it is. It's such a cookie cutter setup. The elf you are soul bound to also gets no real introduction? He's just there, no "hello", no "who are you", nothing. The entire sequence feels like "ah damn we have to make a plot hook and tutorial, well whatever, just cobble something together". I will say the sneak tutorial being to kiss your wife is creative. My introduction to the game proper was comical. A random troll immediately killed two captains which of course locks you into this wonderful sequence of "zoom into random orc, get pushed through a series of menus". Again, it's just all so clumsy. The combat system sure is there and it sure is clumsy. It's also so mindless. It's the classic "enemies take turns attacking you". You also get callouts for every incoming attack, making the whole thing feel like a quick time event. Every mechanic i encountered so far has been incredibly dumbed down and made ridiculously easy. The stealth is silly and the time windows for blocking are about twice or thrice as long as they IMO should be. One thing that did stand out to me, was how alive the world felt. There were always orcs running around, getting into fights or chasing after slaves. I'm aware this is an old game and I am judging it harshly with modern day eyes, but witcher 3 came out a year after this and the comparison is night and day.

pectacular