Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor (PC) Review

Sun, 28 Apr 2019 12:29:00 -0500

Shadow of Mordor is a third person action game developed by Monolith Productions, and published by Warner Bros. Interactive.

When it is reduced down to its most basic elements, the game is about killing orcs. Everything in revolves around that, and if the combat isn’t good, then it would make this game extremely tedious because a lot of time is spent in combat.

Fortunately, the combat is really good. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and there are times it can get repetitive, but learning new abilities which will happen as the player progresses through the missions will add to the variety. The game borrows heavily from the combat system of the Batman games. If you did not enjoy the combat in the Batman games, then there is a good chance you won’t like this game.

Lord of the Rings: Battle For Middle Earth (PC) Review

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:14:00 -0600

I spite the unsuccessful attempts to make an action game out of this franchise, I still felt an RTS was an unusual choice for this series; perhaps this is because of my relative inexperience in RTS; Age of Empires is the only RTS game I played.

This game follows the entire story of The Lord of the Rings, not just one part. It does take liberties with the story, for example, Boromir can live through the entire campaign and even fight in Mordor depending on how you play the game. That is not necessarily a bad thing, its a lot of fun to have all your main characters fight in the ultimate battle. It is a huge game in terms of longevity and scales of battle with beautiful graphics and two long campaigns - good and evil. I felt it captured the epic sense of scale as the movies did.

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Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor (PC) Review

Lord of the Rings: Battle For Middle Earth (PC) Review