Review of Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

The absolute biggest strength of this game is the combat. It's very fast paced and getting combos and kill streaks is very satisfying. Upgrades, runes and all that is good as well, very similar to the Arkham games. The boss system it introduces is innovative, although I don't think it quite reaches the heights the developers wanted it to. The problem is although killing orcs is really fun (and I do mean it's awesome), it does get old pretty fast. And maybe if the story of the game was awesome, then we'd be talking about something else, but the thing is it just isn't that interesting and the characters are bland and don't offer much in terms of personality. There is plenty to do, plenty of side missions and artifact collection and that kind of thing, but it really got old pretty fast for me. I couldn't get through the entire game, but I guess I would recommend it now, since it's probably a bit cheaper. I wouldn't recommend it at full price, though. It's also pretty funny how whenever you get into a boss battle, the boss will say his generic line with his thick british accent and then scream with his hands raised up. It's fun, but not for too long. I played this game for about 15 hours. It was incredibly entertaining for the first 5, it was OK until hour 10, but the last 5 hour I kind of just wanted it to be over. I will also say the enviroment isn't too interesting either. The most intersting thing is this statue of Sauron with some human slaves and it literally gets torn down during one of the first missions.