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1. MIDDLE EARTH SHADOW OF MORDOR GOTY REVIEW GAMESPOT PC
2. MIDDLE EARTH SHADOW OF MORDOR GOTY REVIEW GAMESPOT FREE

You had to really work for your upgrades. The entire map was not accessible to you. The enemies took awhile to respawn, and they did so only in certain areas and that was based on your story progression. The only way this game could have worked is if it were made into a more linear experience with a better story. Minutes later the same orcs are again in charge of some slaves at the same location.

MIDDLE EARTH SHADOW OF MORDOR GOTY REVIEW GAMESPOT FREE

You beat up and kill some orcs, you free some slaves. It's like a single-player MMO in that regard. The result? you get very little, if any, sense of accomplishment. Ever play an MMO? If not, let me break it down, you kill some enemies/animals in an area, you come back there minutes later and the same NPCs have respawned. And that is as far as the environmental use goes in this game.Īnother thing about respawning. You NEED to exploit those things when you get swamped by dozens of orcs while trying to kill an orcs captain. If you plan on playing without making bonfires explode, dropping bee hives, and/or riding caragors then think again. There are no buildings to enter and there are barely any caves to explore, there are no towns to visit and there is no downtime in the taverns, there are no people to have a conversation with, there are no hobbits, no wizzards and no elves, there is just orcs and more orcs.there are some big orcs, some small orcs, some four legged orcs.and then some more orcs, well, there is also Gollum for about 10 minutes of the game.Īlthough you may feel overpowered at first, eventually you will start getting killed when you take on orc captains and war chiefs with their fellow orcs respawning by the dozens and they won't stop respawning until either you die and respawn or until you kill your target. Towards the middle of the game you start off with a new map and, guess what? You do exactly the same thing you were doing in the first map. The end.īut honestly, the entire map is open to you from the very beginning so there is little sense of progression in that regard. You play as some typical stock pretty white boy who does nothing but kill orcs throughout the entire game in various flashy and fancy ways. Remember Randal's description of the LOTR trilogy in Clerks 2? Well this is my description of this game in Randal's style: I really really do not understand what this game has going for it aside from a really well fleshed-out combat.

MIDDLE EARTH SHADOW OF MORDOR GOTY REVIEW GAMESPOT PC

He booted a PC in mid-December of 2014 and wrote an editorial for the Shadow of Mordor being the game of the year and signed under a false name. Seriously, it almost sounds like all of the GS staff took off early for the holidays and Joe Shmoe, the janitor, was left in charge of running the office. By PeterDuck | Review Date: December 19, 2014