
Experience an epic open-world brought to life by the award-winning Nemesis System. Forge a new Ring of Power, conquer Fortresses in massive battles and dominate Mordor with your personal orc army in Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™.
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VERY GOOD
---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☑ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10
My review of this game is a little complicated. Is it an expanded/better version of the first game's mechanics? Yes. Does it purposefully waste the player's time through repetition in order to get them to waste money on microtransactions in order to progress through the game faster? Also yes. So why is my review still positive? It's because I don't see that repetition as a bad thing. I don't see the time as wasted or playing the game as a chore; after all, playing through the game just to get to the end gets you nothing but a lackluster story to begin with. I absolutely love the gameplay loop here, and so I don't see a need to buy any microtransactions to begin with. While they'll speed things up, if you love the gameplay loop for what it is, there's really no need to buy into this purposeful monetization to begin with. So, if you liked the gameplay loop of the original and grand strategy as much as I do, you'll love this game. If you want to play it just so you can get to the end, then it's probably not the game for you.
Amazing game, nemesis system spot on, ahead of the games around its time. shape stories of the Urak Hai or Ologs. Fully recommend if you like the combat style of Arkham, or if you generally like LOTR games or if you like to make stories or whatever ect ect. I've enjoyed it and I rate it 7/10!
그냥 포켓몬 같은 느낌임 돈으로 강하게 만들거나 힘으로 약하게 만들거나 그냥 정말 재미있음. 초반에 언제부터 오크 연애 시뮬레이션할 수 있는지 궁금한데 아마 2막부터 가능할 겁니다. 개추입니다.
absolute war
Ein herausragendes Spiel. Es stimmt mich traurig, dass es keinen Nachfolger mit dem Nemesis-System geben wird.
GREATEST GAME OF ALL TIME.
10/10
Great combat. Enemy captains can be a good challenge when their perks overlap. Nemesis system makes everything about the game better :) Highly recommend.
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Languages: English*, French*, Italian*, German*, Spanish - Spain*, Japanese*, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil*, Russian, Arabic, Korean, Simplified Chinese +1 more
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