Anyone pick up Shadow of Mordor?

[Mímir]

I got it, and was really, really disappointed by it. It's my own fault, I had expected an open world akin to Skyrim, but rather it's a tiny map cluttered with random Orcs, Orcs, Orcs and more Orcs. No real roaming or free exploring as the game constantly wants to shove action down your throat.

Gameplay is a hybrid between AC (with poorer level design) and Batman - ie. watch out for the 'Block' marker and right-click, otherwise left-click, left-click, left-click until everything is dead. Animations are pretty good though, it looks really action-packed and you feel like a bad-ass when you forget that all you are really doing is more or less the same as in Diablo. Click, click, click. There are quick time events too...

The story is pretty poor, and the setting is non-canonical, meaning it might as well have been set in any other fantasy universe. Graphics are decent but nothing spectacular.

Stealth mechanics are really terrible as well. It seems like your enemies solely rely on sight, and can only see a few meters ahead of them, while giving you a warning marker so you can slip out of sight even if you were standing pretty much right in front of an Orc.

4/10

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