Middle-earth: Shadow of War

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4.6

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  1. Brickthegrim
    Oct 11, 2017
    4
    I was LOVING this game at the start but than I sent one orc to attack another unidentified orc. Turns out they were brothers and because of that I decided to end the duel and turn the opposing orc to my side. Than the other brother betrayed me for "killing his brother" which I didn't do cause he was literally standing next to me. Than turns out they are a family and his other brother thanI was LOVING this game at the start but than I sent one orc to attack another unidentified orc. Turns out they were brothers and because of that I decided to end the duel and turn the opposing orc to my side. Than the other brother betrayed me for "killing his brother" which I didn't do cause he was literally standing next to me. Than turns out they are a family and his other brother than betrayed me followed by a new betrayal nearly every 5 minutes. Because of this the 8 hours I spent dominating this area just to have nearly every captain betray me in a 1 hour period.

    ALSO THE WORST aspect to this entire game is these insanely long and excessive orc intros, half the time you play this game it's just listening to some **** retard talk in the middle of a fight for a full **** minute, talk about a horrible way to totally take you OUT of the experience.

    Such insanely poor choices in this games design this time around.    … Expand
  2. choppy
    Dec 10, 2017
    4
    The microtransactions themselves don't bother me. What bothers me is the way they warped the game to create endless grind in order to try to force you to purchase upgrades: the constant stream of meaningless weapons; the endless array of pointless, nerfed skills that are unfun because there are so many little variations of every skill in order to create a bunch more levels needed toThe microtransactions themselves don't bother me. What bothers me is the way they warped the game to create endless grind in order to try to force you to purchase upgrades: the constant stream of meaningless weapons; the endless array of pointless, nerfed skills that are unfun because there are so many little variations of every skill in order to create a bunch more levels needed to unlock. Great skills you got in shadow of Mordor are now broken into 3 or 4 different pieces that you can't use all at once.

    There's little evolution in gameplay, maps or anything else. The online vendetta system is broken, so you almost never see missions related to your own friends, but almost always for random people you don't know. Who would want that? And the loot chest rewards are pathetic: a couple of underpowered weapons.

    This game needed a lot more innovation, design and structure in order to be worth it, but right now it's just a bigger, more expensive, less fun, less polished version of Shadow of Mordor, with the addition of loot chests and endless grind.    … Expand
  3. Bonovox
    Nov 4, 2017
    4
    This game is a buggy and janky mess. One of the worst "AAA" releases i have played in years. I would give Shadow of Mordor a 8/10 i give this a 4/10.

    And it's on gameplay only i havent cared about the lootboxes **** etc. The sieges in this game is a complete and utter boring and broken mess. For one your captains are **** complete and utter **** And it the latter stages of the Shadow    This game is a buggy and janky mess. One of the worst "AAA" releases i have played in years. I would give Shadow of Mordor a 8/10 i give this a 4/10.

    And it's on gameplay only i havent cared about the lootboxes **** etc.

    The sieges in this game is a complete and utter boring and broken mess. For one your captains are **** complete and utter **** And it the latter stages of the Shadow Wars campaign the AI just bum rush you with like 20 of their captains to just spam your points so you can't defend at all. Do you wanna dominate mind on a broken captain? Well you are lucky if Talion wants to **** target the dumbass infront of you instead of some random **** like 20 yards behind you.

    The enemy trash mobs just spawn out of air and nothing. And enraged captains are OP ****. Last siege that made me rage quit out of this ****ty game had a captain just murder like 6 of my captains my himself and he was constantly enraged and healed up. Bugged? Probably so.

    There were parts of the game i enjoyed but there is too much **** in the game that drags it down. Such as the dragon vs balrog QTE fight, was also janky crap.    … Expand
  4. TheAlgerian
    Oct 27, 2022
    4
    The potential is there, but the game design's a mess, and this is one of these games where the devs asked themselves first how they could keep the player on their toes and force them to mix things up and adapt, but never asked themselves if it was enjoyable.

    So you'll spend most of your time on the floor doing a bunch of dodge-rolls like a little weakling, because you will not be able    The potential is there, but the game design's a mess, and this is one of these games where the devs asked themselves first how they could keep the player on their toes and force them to mix things up and adapt, but never asked themselves if it was enjoyable.

    So you'll spend most of your time on the floor doing a bunch of dodge-rolls like a little weakling, because you will not be able to just fight standing up and feel like a badass.

    What's that? Playstyles? We got no use for it here, you'll play our boring way or the highway.    … Expand
  5. nikitalolo
    Oct 12, 2017
    4
    Просто тихий ужас. Игра для дебилов, способных только закликивать бедную мышку или геймпад. Сюжетец тоже слабый и нормально проходить его мешает открытый мир, в котором нельзя просто нормально побродить, всюду российские полицейские и все рвутся в драку. Бесит.Просто тихий ужас. Игра для дебилов, способных только закликивать бедную мышку или геймпад. Сюжетец тоже слабый и нормально проходить его мешает открытый мир, в котором нельзя просто нормально побродить, всюду российские полицейские и все рвутся в драку. Бесит.
  6. 21grams
    Oct 24, 2017
    4
    I don't know what people see in this game. For me it was dullest game if played this year so far (wish I had will to write reviews for all of them to give a better contrast). There is barely anything standing out with this game so there is no need to in deep so I will make it short with pros and cons only.

    Pros: - Nemesis system - I must say it's only engaging part of the game. Without    I don't know what people see in this game. For me it was dullest game if played this year so far (wish I had will to write reviews for all of them to give a better contrast). There is barely anything standing out with this game so there is no need to in deep so I will make it short with pros and cons only.

    Pros:
    - Nemesis system - I must say it's only engaging part of the game. Without it, this would be one of the worst games in last decade.
    - Orc presentation and narrative.
    - Quite fun action combat, but due to amounts of orcs you slay, it gets tiresome after a while.

    Cons:
    - graphics - very dated and quite ugly overall presentation
    - world design - very unimpressive, copy/paste objects at random locations - done.
    - mouse acceleration - really? This is issue since prequel, still they did not manage to implement raw input.
    - barely existent story - you do same thing over and over, which is slaying orcs and you get to watch cinematic from time to time.
    - repetitive missions - it simply a set of few different types of quests/activities that repeats over and over throughout the whole game, which makes gameplay experience very dull and boring.
    - act 4 is doing same thing 10 time just to see final cinematic (commonly called true ending) - I was already bored to death after whole game being utterly repetitive, so I quit the game after siege #3 and simply watched true ending on YT (best gaming decision in my life!)
    - Cutout DLC that should be in main game.
    - Microtransactions in SP games which feel enforced by gating true ending behind dull and boring grind. If you must buy this game - don't feed this greedy published with any more money. One - you encourage similar behavior this way in the future. Two - its not worth, you can watch true ending cinematic on YT and save either time or money. This loot box/cache thing in fully priced games (especially singleplayer) needs to stop.

    Summing up, it's overly repetitive and dull game and only nemesis systems gives some brighter moments in this whole melancholic experience.. I cannot recommend this to anyone, don't buy it and don't encourage similar behavior from WB in the future. My game copy came with graphics card (special nvidia bundle).

    Just ingore its existence and move on, absolute waste of time with minimal fun value.

    4/10 only just for funny orcs and nemesis system.    … Expand
  7. Voodoo123
    Oct 17, 2017
    4
    +Impressive scale
    +That fun nemesis system is back with a vengeance
    +Action loop feels like Golden axe meets Barkham -Story doesn't feel worthy of the material on which it is based -One does not simply walk into lotr franchise and produce a Story unworthy of the original material Maybe it's just fatigue from the last game but I found this game to be outdated. I am sure for some    +Impressive scale
    +That fun nemesis system is back with a vengeance
    +Action loop feels like Golden axe meets Barkham
    -Story doesn't feel worthy of the material on which it is based
    -One does not simply walk into lotr franchise and produce a Story unworthy of the original material

    Maybe it's just fatigue from the last game but I found this game to be outdated. I am sure for some there be much enjoyment to be had here but I really couldn't find a strong enough reason to continue bashing my way through the brightly lit hud and OTT cutscenes. After the first hour I felt like I had experienced everything on offer. I also heard many have had issues even with superior gaming hardware and the loot chest madness.    … Expand
  8. cyberdamn
    Jul 1, 2020
    4
    The first game was kinda boring but this...
    the commander (or w/e it's called) system is simply disappointing, often you almost kill a captain, then his "death-defying" ability turns in, then you beat him up again, fork up the stupid QTE and the captain just "runs away" (actually he just disappears right in the air)
    Also, it just spits on all the ideas of original lore.
  9. CCsckr
    Oct 13, 2017
    4
    8 hours into the game and I am bored out of my mind. This is the exact SAME game, nothing new, apart from items and a few new orc faces. The same repetitive missions, the same **** "follow Gollum" missions, the same go here, see this, go somewhere else, stealth kills some archers and kill orcs. Also kill orcs, all you do in this game is kill orcs... Warner Bros. please understand that Lotr8 hours into the game and I am bored out of my mind. This is the exact SAME game, nothing new, apart from items and a few new orc faces. The same repetitive missions, the same **** "follow Gollum" missions, the same go here, see this, go somewhere else, stealth kills some archers and kill orcs. Also kill orcs, all you do in this game is kill orcs... Warner Bros. please understand that Lotr is more than just killing orc after orc after orc in a colorless environment in **** Mordor. My god, the same skills, the same enemy weakness, the same animations, the same **** swords. This is the worst sequel I have ever seen in my life. 95% reused assets from previous game. Totally unacceptable. Getting a refund. Thank you continuing the trend of making **** LOTR games :*… Expand
  10. Ljungman
    Oct 7, 2018
    4
    I honestly couldn't play through the entirety of this game because of all the grind that is involved in doing so. Near every story-mission is locked behind the same thing, which is taking over orcs in order to build an army. This army is then used to taking over fortresses. Not only that, but you can't take over orcs that have a higher level than yourself, which means I have to meet theI honestly couldn't play through the entirety of this game because of all the grind that is involved in doing so. Near every story-mission is locked behind the same thing, which is taking over orcs in order to build an army. This army is then used to taking over fortresses. Not only that, but you can't take over orcs that have a higher level than yourself, which means I have to meet the same enemy twice in order to shame them to the same level. I grew tired of doing the same thing over and over for the small amount of story I got as a reward and the story itself isn't worth the effort.… Expand
  11. Cougargames
    Nov 1, 2019
    4
    Normally id give this game a 1/10 but beacuse of the removal of microtransactions i can rate this game a little bit higher, thoe this does not change the fact that we were left with and everlasting, tedius ending where you had to grind enlessly for orcs to pass on to the next fortress. They made it so tedius to make money from mainly casuals or people who just dont have much time wich isNormally id give this game a 1/10 but beacuse of the removal of microtransactions i can rate this game a little bit higher, thoe this does not change the fact that we were left with and everlasting, tedius ending where you had to grind enlessly for orcs to pass on to the next fortress. They made it so tedius to make money from mainly casuals or people who just dont have much time wich is wrong the disrespect from the devs is just wrong. I mean of course the game has good sides such as the different orcs and literely giving you wars to partake in. And of course you dont have to deal with the microtransactions anymore but there is still a company here i dont want to support after making this decision.… Expand
  12. passionne
    Sep 7, 2019
    4
    I played Shadow of Mordor and I thought that this 2nd episode would be as good but it is an error :

    - far too repetitive : I played about 40 h and I always do the same things... - the RPG part is useless : at level 30, I still need to strike the same hits number even on low-level enemies ! - Textures are bad, low-resolution. - Story is uninspired. The only good part is    I played Shadow of Mordor and I thought that this 2nd episode would be as good but it is an error :

    - far too repetitive : I played about 40 h and I always do the same things...

    - the RPG part is useless : at level 30, I still need to strike the same hits number even on low-level enemies !

    - Textures are bad, low-resolution.

    - Story is uninspired.

    The only good part is combat. Everything is trash. My last Middle-earth game for sure.    … Expand
  13. zanzibarwinds
    Oct 10, 2017
    4
    Great game, pretty much the same as SoM just with a lot of extra stuff (Loot/gear, more orcs, larger map etc). There is also a lot more to do and you WILL have to do a lot more to simply earn in game currency to buy loot boxes. This is the downfall of the entire game IMHO. The publishers knew the first game was so good that they now want to milk the sequel for as much as possible. TheyGreat game, pretty much the same as SoM just with a lot of extra stuff (Loot/gear, more orcs, larger map etc). There is also a lot more to do and you WILL have to do a lot more to simply earn in game currency to buy loot boxes. This is the downfall of the entire game IMHO. The publishers knew the first game was so good that they now want to milk the sequel for as much as possible. They have charged £45 (AAA PC game price) and then thrown in content you can buy. Totally disgusting. Logic says if you gonna not give all the content away for the original price then make that original price much lower. I'd have been happy to purchase loot boxes if the game had cost £20.
    Avoid if you have a "cant-help-myself" personality but a very low budget.

    Overall if the game didnt have MTA system I'd give it 8/10, with MTA I give it a 4    … Expand
  14. Goshan220
    Jul 31, 2021
    4
    Скучно. Много всего но при этом как-то скучно. не смог пересилить себя и пройти даже за одного персонажа, а их там 3. Весь геймплей сводится просто к выкашиванию локации от противников и нахождения боса. Повторить. Поиграл 3 вечера и удалил.
    Сюжет: 2
    Геймплей: 2 Реиграбельность: 0 Личный интерес: 10 - к сеттингу, но не игре    Скучно. Много всего но при этом как-то скучно. не смог пересилить себя и пройти даже за одного персонажа, а их там 3. Весь геймплей сводится просто к выкашиванию локации от противников и нахождения боса. Повторить. Поиграл 3 вечера и удалил.
    Сюжет: 2
    Геймплей: 2
    Реиграбельность: 0
    Личный интерес: 10 - к сеттингу, но не игре
  15. BernardTheBeast
    Feb 2, 2020
    3
    I bought the Silver Edition so that no one could look at my review and think I didn't put in effort in trying to enjoy it.

    When the game started, I discovered that if I declined the Terms of Service, I could disable the Market and all Loot Box content (including the Silver Edition Lootboxes I paid an extra $20 for). Therefore no one can look at my opinion and think I'm biased just    I bought the Silver Edition so that no one could look at my review and think I didn't put in effort in trying to enjoy it.

    When the game started, I discovered that if I declined the Terms of Service, I could disable the Market and all Loot Box content (including the Silver Edition Lootboxes I paid an extra $20 for). Therefore no one can look at my opinion and think I'm biased just because of Microtransactions, because in my gameplay, they were entirely disabled.

    This game is equivalent to the very first Assassin's Creed, but with a Lord Of The Rings reskin, written and directed by a greedy fanboy. The content is functional but limited. The story is average, occasionally boosted by likable and even humorous orcs, yet at the same time often feels soulless. The gameplay is functional, but nothing truly unique when compared to other games of the recent past. The randomly generated orcs...both the best, and worst part of the game: they're creative in design, ability and behavior; yet they are the spawned outcome of a randomly generated number that the game decides without any regard for your action or playstyle, because they're based on the integrated Lootbox system, and are therefore not supposed to be unique—otherwise orcs from Lootboxes would be different from orcs found in gameplay, and render the microtransaction system less beneficial.

    This is the summation of my thoughts, based on the time I spent playing (again, with a Disabled Market/Microtransactions/Lootboxes).

    I loved Shadow Of Mordor, I had high hopes for Shadow Of War. Sadly, the horrific impact of Warner Brothers has left a stain on the game, if not the franchise, through it's continued mishandling of intellectual property: within which WB itself would be the enemy of mankind, were J.R.R. Tolkien himself to write an adaptation of this story, in addition to flagrant disregard for ethics; specifically towards what is becoming legally recognized as a form of gambling (Lootboxes), in addition to avoiding labor laws on other projects, not to mention the whole controversy surrounding the death of a Monolith Developer. Bottom line, what could have been an enjoyable experience has been twisted and warped, and is hardly the game I had been hoping for.

    It's got a overall Mostly Positive rating on Steam. I'm not one to judge the community; if people like it, great. If you yourself enjoy this game, then do have fun with it. But despite wanting to like it, I couldn't enjoy Shadow of War. Whatever heart was poured into this game, was utterly corrupted by greed, as demonstrated by one particular scene:

    Let me call to your attention a moment where one of the orcs you encounter who is important to the story. After joining the protagonist's side, he offers to share his knowledge with Talion regarding orcs and how they function. There's a cutscene that plays, in order to explain specifically, the Combat Arena: a "minigame" that is essentially nothing more than a mobile game: you select one of your orcs, and your orc duels an enemy orc. You have no influence over the outcome, essentially making it a 'game of chance' (I won't insult your intelligence by pointing out what that technically is). During this cutscene, the orc, who is written to be friendly and likable, speaks to you—not Talion, the character—but to you, the player, in a first-person cutscene, in which his dialogue is explicitly written to compel you to give this 'minigame' a try, with the outcome potentially coercing or forcing you to buy microtransaction orcs to get better results.

    With the potential present in which your orc will be killed, and the only options for regaining orcs being lengthy gameplay to recruit orcs, or the easier option of "buying orcs" via Lootboxes, I'd hope that anyone, even those without a comprehensive understanding of Gambling Mechanics, Advertisement, Marketing and Business principles, can recognize how this system is inherently designed to guide a player (who has already spent between $60 - $100), to invest more time or real-world money, in this situation. I won't get into the ethics of it, but I will point out that there was a time when games were built to be played and enjoyed first and foremost, not to be tools that, in a very real sense, scheme to manipulate gamers into emptying their wallets further.    … Expand
  16. cousinit99
    Nov 26, 2018
    3
    Three words: Quick Time Events

    This game is complete and utter sh*t because of those three little words. Prepare to feel nothing but frustration and contempt. Monolith and WB both deserve the firing squad for this malevolent horse sh*t. I won't be buying another title from them for a considerable period of time. I give it a three solely for the remarkable cinematic sequences.    Three words: Quick Time Events

    This game is complete and utter sh*t because of those three little words. Prepare to feel nothing but frustration and contempt. Monolith and WB both deserve the firing squad for this malevolent horse sh*t. I won't be buying another title from them for a considerable period of time.

    I give it a three solely for the remarkable cinematic sequences.

    EDIT: Nope, sorry. All this "cheating death" horse sh*t just lost you the other 3. F*cking garbage. I'm done with it.    … Expand
  17. Ismaur
    Oct 20, 2017
    3
    MT aside, the game without its nemesis system is utter garbage.

    its 2017 and graphics is beyond criticism. The game itself is unfinished, the placeholders instead of actual collectibles, bugs, movement as if it was 2006. Quests/side quests are bland, even worse than in the first Watch Dogs. The combat may be fun, but only for a while. After that it becomes a vault fest with aoe    MT aside, the game without its nemesis system is utter garbage.

    its 2017 and graphics is beyond criticism.

    The game itself is unfinished, the placeholders instead of actual collectibles, bugs, movement as if it was 2006.

    Quests/side quests are bland, even worse than in the first Watch Dogs. The combat may be fun, but only for a while. After that it becomes a vault fest with aoe spam.

    If you liked the first one, better replay instead of buying this.    … Expand
  18. MortumSK
    Dec 17, 2017
    3
    In first three acts gameplay is ok, not perfect, enough repetative but interesting. Act 4 totally ruins it. + lootboxes in single player game = fail. Story is a Tolkien's nightmare.
    Don't buy this game.
  19. Metacriticus
    Oct 17, 2017
    3
    Do not buy! **** micro transactions, as predicted. Apart from that decent game, but a lot of gridning... sigh. Vote with your wallet guys, so skip this one.
  20. Chimforce
    Oct 10, 2017
    3
    The game itself is good but the microtransactions lootboxes ruins the whole game, not supporting or buying games like these will most certaintly help, please don't buy this crap.
  21. Apache91
    Oct 18, 2017
    3
    Apart from micro-transactions (which is plain daylight robbery) this game has dull combat and repetitive game play. The combat has a mind of its own. You click a button wanting to do one thing and it will do something else entirely. The repetitiveness, grinding and sub par combat becomes annoying that you either rush through the story for the sake of it or quit.
  22. Forrix
    Oct 20, 2017
    3
    This Game had so much Promise. SO much.
    its so unfortunate it has become a Total Grind-fest Which the micro-transactions totally had nothing to do with, I'm sure.
    This game Is good in VERY VERY short bursts once the first (excellent) act is complete the game slowly devolves into a total grind fest which i honestly cant play for more than 20 mins. If a drop in drop out game is what your    This Game had so much Promise. SO much.
    its so unfortunate it has become a Total Grind-fest Which the micro-transactions totally had nothing to do with, I'm sure.
    This game Is good in VERY VERY short bursts once the first (excellent) act is complete the game slowly devolves into a total grind fest which i honestly cant play for more than 20 mins. If a drop in drop out game is what your looking for Shadow of War is it. other wise wait till its on sale. If you have Shadow of Mordor go play/replay that its no where near as grindy and you can have just as much fun as a fraction of the price.

    Pros: Nemesis System, Very cool Setting, Hilarious Orks.
    Cons: Loot Boxes. TOTAL GRIND. Full of Tedious Open world busy-work.    … Expand
  23. greenisgood
    Dec 27, 2019
    3
    TL;DR
    Will the game companies ever get the news that we do not like micro transac/loot boxes in our full priced games??? Even though they have been removed now at the time i played this game, It still is a horribly imbalanced mess with a few good things going for it.
    The Good Nemesis System - One of the best Game mechanics to come out of the gaming industry. Decent Combat Mechanics -    TL;DR
    Will the game companies ever get the news that we do not like micro transac/loot boxes in our full priced games??? Even though they have been removed now at the time i played this game, It still is a horribly imbalanced mess with a few good things going for it.

    The Good
    Nemesis System - One of the best Game mechanics to come out of the gaming industry.
    Decent Combat Mechanics - Talions Skill tree makes for a fluid play style.
    Some Canon Bending story - a positive for me since I am a Tolkien Noob.
    Look and Feel - The world is Breath taking though often same feeling at times, nevertheless easy to get sucked into the story.

    The Bad - Oh My... here we Go
    The Camera - Often had an Unresponsive camera during battle and traversing which respectively makes getting stuck in the world and off screen attacks very prominent, the camera would routinely not respond to my input of a camera pan.
    The Pit Fights - OMG this is the biggest offender in my opinion as all of the ferocity that you face while fighting the Enemy seem to disappear in the pit, they just poke, prod and make noises at each other compared to the fights you have with the captains. This along with a stupidly imbalanced RNG that can have your dominated characters die to low level scrubs, this is just a stupid waste of time especially since you will spend a lot of time in the pit fights.
    The Controls - It feels like the controls are fighting back at you almost all the time, Talion will often face and attack, move or preform an action in the direction opposite to where you are facing. The highly slick Arkham series of Combat scheme that made us love the first Shadow of Mordor is downright unfinished and unpolished here.
    Excessively Grindy - This game really gave me my money's worth with side-quest busy work... But most of it is meaningless busy work since the EXP for the main missions and kills seems severely throttled as u cross level 25. No doubt designed to force players to buy the nasty loot boxes and exp boosts.. which got even worse once the said loot boxes were removed since the grind was already inbuilt into the game.
    Act 4 GrindWall - Of course. But since Enough has been said about this considering the 3.5 user score I am not gonna elaborate. It just feels like a giant disappointment to not finish the game considering all the noted cons you have to deal with just for the True ending. Just Youtube it.

    All in all Sadly this highly anticipated game turned out to be very underwhelming for me since Shadow of Mordor was a refreshing firestorm and scratched the itch of more Batman Arkham feels.    … Expand
  24. MoonCanLight
    Feb 11, 2019
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What have you done with this nice and addictive story?! Why you gave up on alternate Middle-Earth history? Why gameplay is so boring? And why main hero, after conquering almost all lands of Mordor doesn't have a chance to fight against Sauron and lost by default? It makes no sense. And you turned him to be a bad guy?! Really?! What terribly ending was this?!… Expand
  25. Hellanger
    Dec 30, 2021
    3
    Nothing but grind. The plot is made for the fans, absolutely nothing is clear. The blunt cutscenes before the fight are the maximum krinzh.
  26. nietzfk
    May 20, 2023
    3
    I thought maybe I would enjoy it if I experienced this universe in a different form. I enjoyed playing this game with the head of an average AC game with a different theme. I didn't like the SJW move he did with the DLC. The main story doesn't give a **** about it either. I have a very close friend who is a fan of the Lord of the Rings universe. I wish I could tell these people that theI thought maybe I would enjoy it if I experienced this universe in a different form. I enjoyed playing this game with the head of an average AC game with a different theme. I didn't like the SJW move he did with the DLC. The main story doesn't give a **** about it either. I have a very close friend who is a fan of the Lord of the Rings universe. I wish I could tell these people that the only literary work in the world is not this ****ing series.… Expand
  27. danilogan7
    Jul 3, 2022
    3
    O jogo se perde completamente ao introduzir micro transações. No final do jogo fica evidente a forçada para terminar as missões as comprando.
    O jogo é bonito, tem uma gameplay maneira, história justa e com algumas ligações com o filme do senhor dos anéis.
  28. ZzTopNemesis
    Mar 1, 2022
    3
    Score: 3.6

    I loved the Shadow of Mordor, i really did. Years later this one was announced, and i got for free after buying some hardware on a local store. I immediately jumped it, and after 2 hours i gave up, idk why just didn't feel like playing it. A couple of months later i forced myself to play again.... I did this 4 times already, i have 20 hours on the game and every single    Score: 3.6

    I loved the Shadow of Mordor, i really did.
    Years later this one was announced, and i got for free after buying some hardware on a local store.
    I immediately jumped it, and after 2 hours i gave up, idk why just didn't feel like playing it.

    A couple of months later i forced myself to play again....
    I did this 4 times already, i have 20 hours on the game and every single one of them i forced myself to play it.
    Idk why it just doesn't hook me anymore.    … Expand
  29. tsmith18256
    Oct 22, 2017
    2
    This game started off really well like Shadow of Mordor, but Act 4 is an absolute joke. They decided they were just going to throw on about 10 hours of grinding the exact same thing over and over again and make your army way underpowered if you don't buy their loot crates.
  30. clancli
    Nov 28, 2017
    2
    A new masive open world game, beautiful graphics and sounds but in short terms all comes down with insane agresive microtansactions (specially in the late game), repetitive gameplay, and a story that does not motive; as result we have a bigger but boring and abusive game.
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Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Feb 16, 2018
    60
    A huge game that, despite of the quality of the fight and the delight of the Orb, offers paradoxically very small. It's not a failure, but we were expecting more. [Issue#279]
  2. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Dec 30, 2017
    76
    Nemesis is a one-hit wonder of a mechanic. Everything else in Middle-earth is mediocre at best, but Nemesis makes it all worthwhile, since every playthrough is truly unique – a feature none of its triple-A competitors can offer. [Issue#225, p.38]
  3. Riot Pixels
    Dec 23, 2017
    63
    A lot of people were upset to find out that Shadow of War has loot boxes, and they are kind of annoying. Unfortunately, loot boxes is the least of its problems.
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