Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™

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The game is extremely boring and repetitive, giving no sense of progress whatsoever. The missions are boring. Take the Grog Poisoning mission, for instance, you have to dig for herbs in three different map locations, performing the exact same interactions many times . Then there's the explosive cargo escort mission where you need to destroy Sauron's statue. The variation is just clearing three separate locations of enemies. The other quests feel like everything boils down to "kill X enemies using Y method." There's no depth, no meaningful progression. Combat is boring too, it feels like smashing the attack button until enemies die. The enemies for the most part don't give the feel that you are attacking them, it feels like the hero is slicing the air until you kick someone, but the kick just happens as you mash the attack button... Character movement is very bad, it sticks to everything, so around ruins or other buildings you have little control over what the character is doing and it often doesn't behave in an intuitive manner. The Nemesis system? It just exists. Every orc still feels interchangeable and the supposed "unique" rivalries mean nothing when the core loop stays identical throughout. The only difference is you sometimes get some sort of greeting and health bar above an enemy. Sometimes you have to check for weakpoints, but that doesn't change the feeling it is repetitive. Is there something good? If you want some really undemanding entertainment, you could just push forward in the direction where the game tells you the mission is and mash the attack button once you engage in combat.

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.

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OI BRUV, THIS GAEM GUD U SHULD PLAY IT!!!

Much better than Rings of Power!!!

I be Orcin' on my Middle-earth till I Shadow all over my Mordor