Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

 PlayStation 3
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4.2

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 155 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 45 out of 155
  2. Mixed: 24 out of 155
  3. Negative: 86 out of 155
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  1. Malekk
    Dec 29, 2022
    6
    Nice gameplay nice story i like really like it just need more detail in grafics i know PS3 can do better than that and and because the devlopment is hard on PS3 the fps is very low between 25-10fps!!
  2. Dinerofresco
    May 5, 2021
    10
    i played this game on ps4 but i loved the game for everything it offered, its like assassin's creed and batman arkham had a baby and shadow of mordor was made
  3. Romicko
    Mar 1, 2021
    1
    I wish so much that in due time I spent money on this ugly product. The game has been ported to the Playstation 3 so badly that it is simply impossible to play. FPS is constantly in the region of 15-20 frames per second. And God forbid you accidentally press the pause button, or open the map... 80% of the game is a black screen and a loading circle in the lower right corner of the screen.
  4. CasualAndExtrem
    Nov 21, 2020
    1
    I dont know about PS4 version since i dont own it but i own PS3 version. I wonder why they didnt try to fix the game through patches? The graphics are awful in PS3 version. The orcs never move any muscle in their mouth. The game lags too much and the sensitivity of controller is bad plus the respond in controller is just as bad as the game.
  5. Ba-Ouai-Logic
    Jun 29, 2020
    9
    As a Tolkien fan, I absolutely liked this game. In fact, i wanted a PS4 just for this game, even if it's not an exclusive. I remember 5 years ago when I was faking to be sick to not go to school just for playing this game, and 4 months ago I finally cleaned my PS4 from the dust and I earned the platinum trophy for this game. And now, lets start the sequel...
  6. AbhinavDasiga
    Apr 1, 2020
    6
    Apart from Orcs that have personality and the nemesis system, Shadow of Mordor doesn't do anything new. The desolate landscape of Mordor acts feels like a barren wasteland with not much to do apart from ripping through Orcs which gets tedious after the 20th horde.
  7. Empyrea
    Oct 27, 2019
    5
    After almost 5 hours of playing this game and when I was almost about to quit, the screen got frozen so that was the end for me with this game (oh! and the disc was new and I had already upgraded the game because I read that there would have been many bugs if I hadn't done that). Well, as a fan of the LOTR (although don't expect to be directly related with the books or the movies) I couldAfter almost 5 hours of playing this game and when I was almost about to quit, the screen got frozen so that was the end for me with this game (oh! and the disc was new and I had already upgraded the game because I read that there would have been many bugs if I hadn't done that). Well, as a fan of the LOTR (although don't expect to be directly related with the books or the movies) I could enjoy it a bit but I found it repetitive and difficult so that's why I ended up quitting. Graphics are good so I don't know why they didin't do a game based more on the films or books. If you can get this game borrow from a friend, you can try it but I wouldn't recommend you to buy it. And I almos forget, you'll waste a lot of time when you go to the map or you want to upgrade your equipment and habilities because it takes a lot of time when you do that. So you'll be sick of waiting and watching a black screen.… Expand
  8. Leontorres7
    Nov 15, 2018
    7
    This is really a great game, there is so much to love about it, must play for sure, just keep in mind the PS3 version is kind of laggy at times.
  9. ralmoreira
    Jun 26, 2017
    3
    A friend of mine borrowed the game and I have to say that I'm sorry for those who paid the game. This one just has too many bugs, glitches and huge loading time.
  10. amateurcritic2
    May 30, 2016
    9
    Its far from perfect I would agree BUT the game is just so much fun read all the other reviews they will tell you about the textures and long loading times blahblahblah that to me is the reason it lost a point but only one because thegameplay is so much fun and you may think it gets repetitive but the skill trees add lots of new ways to play thhroughout the game and yes oncfe they areIts far from perfect I would agree BUT the game is just so much fun read all the other reviews they will tell you about the textures and long loading times blahblahblah that to me is the reason it lost a point but only one because thegameplay is so much fun and you may think it gets repetitive but the skill trees add lots of new ways to play thhroughout the game and yes oncfe they are exhauste it does get repetitice but the gameplay is so good that i dont mind doing the same thing over and over to see the awesome executions. It also has a pretty basic story but it has a very smart managing system for the orcs army. Overall i fyoud dont mind a bit of basic things lacking for the complex fun gameplay you should have no problem with playing this on ps3… Expand
  11. BebopMan
    May 24, 2016
    2
    Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is a game that was published on the PS4, ported to the PS3, looks like it’s on the PS2 and plays like it’s on the PS1. If nothing else, it teaches you a valuable leasson in never buying a last-gen port of a current-gen game. Especially if Behaviour Interactive worked on it.

    The game is an encyclopedia of malfunctions. The game crashes, the character    Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is a game that was published on the PS4, ported to the PS3, looks like it’s on the PS2 and plays like it’s on the PS1. If nothing else, it teaches you a valuable leasson in never buying a last-gen port of a current-gen game. Especially if Behaviour Interactive worked on it.

    The game is an encyclopedia of malfunctions. The game crashes, the character freezes; he clips through the ground and into nothingness, he clips into mountains and remains landlocked within. Orcs spawn out of thin air, their dialogue loops up to three times, and they gently float down to the ground, sans animation, when jumping from above. Caragors clip through the ground when climbing ledges, and Graugs have been removed all but from the story missions that feature them.

    When characters are showcased in in-game cutscenes and such, they appear to be wearing the scrambling suits from A Scanner Darkly as layers of textures pop in and out, rendering them truly formless. The landscape itself is riddled with texture pop-ins – you can stand by a boulder in the middle of nowhere and simply gaze at it for minutes at a time as it loads texture upon texture and doesn’t decide on any.

    It’s also a game that requires lots of loading, and not just from booting up the game or loading up a new area. Unpausing the game alone can take as long as half a minute. Wanna check the map again real quick? That’s another half a minute. In any other game this wouldn’t be as aggravating, but it’s an RPG – you’re gonna spend a lot of time surfing menus, upgrading, customizing, etc. And every time you wanna do any of it it’s going to take forever. Pausing the game ended up being like laundry day for me – pile as much dirty underwear as you can, so you save yourself as many trips as possible.

    There’s also the issue of the in-game cutscenes that play whenever you start a side mission or extra challenge. These are, in theory, 5 second previews showing you the location, the enemies, the goal, etc. In practice, however, these go on for as a long as a full minute: cutscenes load and play one shot at a time. So you get a shot of a prisoner, and then a black screen as the game buffers, and another shot of another prisoner, and another black screen as the game buffers, etc. Pre-rendered cutscenes play just fine, though music tends to carry over from gameplay (usually war drums), which upsets the tone of cutscenes and also drowns out the dialogue.

    The list goes one. The low resolution. The hideous graphics. The screen tearing. The draw distance. The invisible walls. The inexistent animation. The lip-syncing, or lack thereof. Worst of all are the inconsistent frame rates. Of all the glitches and all the malfunctions, FPS is what makes the game borderline unplayable. Even as the ending credits roll by, the frame rate goes up and down. Never have I seen this level of incompetence in a game.

    This is all for shame. You can tell at its core that this is a fun game, but whatever fun I had while playing this broken mess was always in spite of the game rather than because of it. To be fair – fairer than the game was to me – the combat is serviceable (lifted off the Arkham games – also by Warner Brothers) and the Nemesis System, which keeps track of the hierarchy of Sauron’s Army, is engaging. I also liked the use of J. R. R. Tolkien’s body of work as part of the game’s lore (stretching all the way back to The Silmarillion), even if the story doesn’t do it much justice. But here I am reviewing Monolith's game, not Behaviour Interactive's, who can only be commended for all the things they didn't completely ruin.

    Without hyperbole, this is the glitchiest game I’ve ever played (and I’ve played Arkham Origins), and the fault lies primarily on the company that worked on porting it: Behaviour Interactive. I’ve written to them with an extensive, detailed list of all bugs, glitches, malfunctions and shortcomings I’ve encountered while playing their game. I was asking for a patch or at the very least some troubleshooting advice. Their response?

    “Thank you for the great feedback. Unfortunately, there's no team working on the game anymore at Behaviour. We are sorry to hear that you are experiencing difficulties with the game.”

    Thanks for nothing, Behaviour Interactive. And thanks for nothing, Anaïs Renevey, who is quite clearly credited as Head of Quality Assurance in the game’s credits though none of her online resumes mention it, instead crediting herself with the QA of one SpongeBob game.

    Never have I felt this ripped off after purchasing a videogame.    … Expand
  12. aaaaaaapt
    Jan 11, 2016
    6
    I tried really hard to finish this game, because it does have good qualities, but its many flaws were overwhelming (I completed about 60%). Lets start with specific PS3 port problems. I didn't play the first version released, but in this patched version graphics are good, not better nor worse than most PS3 games released recently. The main problem here is the long loads every time you tryI tried really hard to finish this game, because it does have good qualities, but its many flaws were overwhelming (I completed about 60%). Lets start with specific PS3 port problems. I didn't play the first version released, but in this patched version graphics are good, not better nor worse than most PS3 games released recently. The main problem here is the long loads every time you try to access the menu options and map. It takes a long time to access it and to leave it, making the game an exercise of patience. Advancing in the game makes this problem worsen, to the point it becomes almost unplayable. Framerate frequently drops, but unfortunately this happens a lot on PS3, I couldn't say it is worse than most games. I didn't experience sound glitches or freezing. General problems to me: First of all, lack of variety. The whole time you keep doing the same things over and over. After a dozen hours the game becomes very repetitive and boring. The main protagonist is not interesting at all, the kind of guy you could say is a pain, so as the NPC's. The game seems to be made only for The Lord of the Rings fans, and I'm not, neither the books nor the movies, so I didn't feel connected to the plot and I really didn't care much for what happened in the game. There is no much care with details too. For example, there are missions where I'm supposed to save human slaves from the beastie Uruks, and to complete the task I just need to release them, it doesn't matter if I do it with dozens Uruks around that certainly would kill them, the game considers the task done. Other annoying thing it is when there is special missions (I am avoiding spoilers) where you must kill an Uruk captain. Eventually he may try to flee, and if you don't catch him soon he just disappears (even if you are close him) and reappears in another place, far from where you are. Your character here moves mostly like in any Assassin's Creed game, for the good and the bad. Combat is good and can be very funny, advancing in the game makes you acquire new powers, moves and abilities, but keeping fighting the same orcs, uruks, caragors the whole game eventually kills the fun, and that's what you're gonna do all the time. The Nemesis system works fine and it is probably the best thing brought by ME-SOM, since it does a great job creating Uruk captains and missions, where you must intervene, or not, you may choose just to watch. There isn't a great variety of locations. As far as I played, there are two moderately big open world regions, but they change very little coast to coast, and even among them the only difference is that one is barren and the other is greener, but the plains, the mounts, the buildings and other things look exactly the same. I don't recommend for PS3 owners, and probably I won't try to play it again even in new gen consoles.… Expand
  13. CassioMurilo
    Aug 2, 2015
    0
    This game is unplayable... It takes too long to load just the pause menu and get back to the game... I spent most part of it waiting this screens. Seems like you`re playing a big game in a poor PC. The worst graphics I`ve ever seen since "Watch Dogs" and "The Evil Within". I did not expected that WB could do this with the PS3 gamers.
    The story is amazing, but this graphics doesn't let you    This game is unplayable... It takes too long to load just the pause menu and get back to the game... I spent most part of it waiting this screens. Seems like you`re playing a big game in a poor PC. The worst graphics I`ve ever seen since "Watch Dogs" and "The Evil Within". I did not expected that WB could do this with the PS3 gamers.
    The story is amazing, but this graphics doesn't let you enjoy it.    … Expand
  14. Steve_Bobison
    Jun 1, 2015
    10
    I bet all the 40 people who gave it a 0 are Xbox people sent here to destroy good games like a really messed up terminator
    Mi essay said that the game was amazing and don't let the dang xbox's be the sad sad sad sad sad sad sad sad sadass people in yo life hommies.Mi essay says that you 18 other **** are dicks and your parents hate you
    PEACE OUT Bob I Son FOR LIFE FOOLS
  15. IronJoo
    Feb 11, 2015
    0
    This game is just the perfect example of why you should never buy games on release. I bought it for a friend as a Christmas gift and I feel terribly embarrassed. The image is so pixelated it looks like a PS2 game. It gave my eyes and my wallet cancer. So much disappointment.
  16. melchaios
    Feb 11, 2015
    5
    This is one of the worst ports I've seen, barely playable. Among the issues: bad framerate, hilarious pop in textures, glitched sound, one glitched sidequest, terrible graphics, too many loading screens. Definitely not worth buying if you can get it on PS4. The game itself is pretty good, the nemesis and enemy breeding system is quite a nice breath of fresh air. However it's nothingThis is one of the worst ports I've seen, barely playable. Among the issues: bad framerate, hilarious pop in textures, glitched sound, one glitched sidequest, terrible graphics, too many loading screens. Definitely not worth buying if you can get it on PS4. The game itself is pretty good, the nemesis and enemy breeding system is quite a nice breath of fresh air. However it's nothing extraordinary in my opinion, Assassin's creed 2 and brotherhood did the job much better, they had better locations and parkour elements (in here you only have 2 landscapes: wasteland, jungle). Story is good, finishers are awesome, and overall it's pretty fun to play. From a gameplay point of view it deserves something between 7.5 and 8. The PS3 port however deserves a 5 at best, and I'm a forgiving gamer, if you're too quircky about technical issues then this is not for you, you're gonna have a bad time.… Expand
  17. The11thGlitch
    Jan 23, 2015
    0
    This is complete **** on PS3: audio looping after performing an action, long loading screens, muddy textures, delayed controls and below 30 fps. **** off Warner Bros
  18. aaronwstark
    Jan 16, 2015
    8
    I think that this game is amazing! The only, only, only, ONLY, issue I've had with it is the loading time between the main pause menu and the game, and before missions. Granted, I know that this last-gen is much different that the current-gen, but I've purposefully stayed ignorant to all current-gen news or anything. Ignorance is bliss, as someone that I could probably Google in a fewI think that this game is amazing! The only, only, only, ONLY, issue I've had with it is the loading time between the main pause menu and the game, and before missions. Granted, I know that this last-gen is much different that the current-gen, but I've purposefully stayed ignorant to all current-gen news or anything. Ignorance is bliss, as someone that I could probably Google in a few seconds once said. It really is, though. That load time is worth the awesome gameplay. If you've played Batman: Arkham, then you will be awesome at this game, as it plays almost exactly like it. Running, climbing, combat (which is more fluid/but almost too easy). Of course, it's completely different than Batman. You can a bow and you behead and dismember Orcs. They added their own pretty clever special moves. There is one certain special move with the bow that is like nothing I've ever done in a video game.

    If it wasn't for the loading time and the fact that the game has no difficulty setting (or New Game Plus), I would have given it a 10. Maybe they will release a patch and I will change this review.    … Expand
  19. CrazyOkie
    Dec 29, 2014
    9
    I can't speak for those that bought the game early, but I got this for Christmas. With patch 1.2, the game seems pretty stable and the graphics are exactly what I would expect for a PS3. The Nemesis system seems fully intact to me, the gameplay is rock-solid and tons of fun. Load screens are long, no doubt, but its bearable. I'm thoroughly enjoying the game - especially the Nemesis system,I can't speak for those that bought the game early, but I got this for Christmas. With patch 1.2, the game seems pretty stable and the graphics are exactly what I would expect for a PS3. The Nemesis system seems fully intact to me, the gameplay is rock-solid and tons of fun. Load screens are long, no doubt, but its bearable. I'm thoroughly enjoying the game - especially the Nemesis system, which is awesome.… Expand
  20. unusualwhale
    Dec 27, 2014
    6
    HORRIBLE PORT! at the beginning later after 1.01 and 1.02 the game is playable! i've spent at-least fourteen hours with the game! I LOVE IT! its not perfect but its not bad either! my biggest gripe is the loading screens! there's one for the menu to the map! it SUCKS! but it doesn't bother me to much. if you have the option get it on PS4. But if you don't want to hash out four-hundredHORRIBLE PORT! at the beginning later after 1.01 and 1.02 the game is playable! i've spent at-least fourteen hours with the game! I LOVE IT! its not perfect but its not bad either! my biggest gripe is the loading screens! there's one for the menu to the map! it SUCKS! but it doesn't bother me to much. if you have the option get it on PS4. But if you don't want to hash out four-hundred plus bucks then this port is alright!… Expand
  21. Sexybeard
    Dec 26, 2014
    7
    Yes, its not the best looking game graphics-wise, that pretty undeniable. But with the latest patch and with most of the gameplay still being as fun as next-gen versions, this game is while not really the best on the ps3 is still not atrociously bad as some say it is.
  22. ghassenga
    Dec 24, 2014
    1
    Totally unplayable game , i beg you not to waste your money like we did and save to get a ps4 or an xboxone , this is by far the worst looking game i have ever played on the ps3,and i'm pretty sure that the ps3 is capable of more, this game only shows the laziness and the greed of the devs.
  23. ninjack
    Dec 11, 2014
    5
    simplistic hack n slash with basic stealth, average graphics and fairly repetitive gameplay, plus frame rate issues and loading times mar the experience. unless properly patched, probably opt for pc or next-gen implementations.
  24. lucascbastos
    Dec 7, 2014
    3
    When i bought this game i was hoping for a mind-blowing game... i gotta say i was wrong, at least on most of it. It's so many problems that it kind of ruined my experience. First, it won't allow language change, you gotta stick with the language from where you bought it, i bought it on US PSN and i can't put it on Portuguese, even it's being fully dubbed and subbed in Portuguese, but it'sWhen i bought this game i was hoping for a mind-blowing game... i gotta say i was wrong, at least on most of it. It's so many problems that it kind of ruined my experience. First, it won't allow language change, you gotta stick with the language from where you bought it, i bought it on US PSN and i can't put it on Portuguese, even it's being fully dubbed and subbed in Portuguese, but it's only available for BR PSN purchases. Second, way too f-ing long loadings, i mean, really, for everything! Not to mention chopped cut scenes for missions, slow loading textures, dieing sounds like 20 seconds after ambushing an orc, and what pissed me the most... too many crashes, i couldn't connect a kill with an interrogation that the game would crash, there were times the sound just disappeared during the interrogation menu and after that was a crash, i learned that "no sound" mean "no interrogation" or else it would crash and it ruined the experience for me since there were times i needed the info and couldn't get it, not to mention the hard to kill captains kills i lost because it crashed during the interrogation.
    Yes, it does have an awesome story but the tsunami of bugs is ruining the game completely.    … Expand
  25. Miraak
    Dec 7, 2014
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. **** developers of this **** port the graphics are bad i rather play The Elder Scrolls 2 Daggerfall because graphics in this game is WORSE than Daggerfall… Expand
  26. Deathwurm
    Dec 5, 2014
    0
    Completely unplayable. This is a prime example of a pure cash-grab. This should never have been released. After playing only 5 minutes and then waiting almost 10 minutes for a load screen that never did load anything I backed out and realized I had been suckered.
    Don't get suckered, stay way from this game.
  27. ed_hunter01
    Dec 4, 2014
    2
    Is a shame the game is very fun but it takes a lot of time between the pause menu to return to gameplay almost five secs that's a lot and i really think that a patch don't resolve nothing in this case maybe the problems with the sound and the problem to get stuck inside a wall but not the delay if you really want to enjoy this game played in a ps4 in the ps3 is a waste of money
  28. buddhabudz
    Dec 2, 2014
    3
    i bought this for ps3 i really like the game but even with the patch it had it still keeps freezing up i got to restart missions to correct it from freezing its choppy i really want to give props to this game but i can not do so at all out of all games i have for the ps3 this has the most glitches lips dont even move while talking cut scenes skip like crazy something needs to be done abouti bought this for ps3 i really like the game but even with the patch it had it still keeps freezing up i got to restart missions to correct it from freezing its choppy i really want to give props to this game but i can not do so at all out of all games i have for the ps3 this has the most glitches lips dont even move while talking cut scenes skip like crazy something needs to be done about this immediately this is the main reason companies go out of business releasing content that basically will not even play for certain systems if it was meant for ps4 and xbox one it should be left that way and i feel they should refund the older systems who bought the game or fix it they need to be held accountable for this mistake and fix it some way some how… Expand
  29. RateGamesFever
    Dec 1, 2014
    0
    Where in the world do I begin with this port? It's the worst port I have played in recent years, and how it was released like this is beyond my comprehension. The game has serious issues starting with down right ABYSMAL audio skipping constantly whether you're fighting or just running around the open world, it has terrible PS2-like graphics, animations that are COMPLETELY broken (broken isWhere in the world do I begin with this port? It's the worst port I have played in recent years, and how it was released like this is beyond my comprehension. The game has serious issues starting with down right ABYSMAL audio skipping constantly whether you're fighting or just running around the open world, it has terrible PS2-like graphics, animations that are COMPLETELY broken (broken is the only word to describe how terrible they are. For example, when an Uruk talks to you, their lips move. Their lips, not their mouths. And that's the LEAST broken animation in the game!), serious game breaking lag and stuttering, and I hear the last boss is going to be unbeatable thanks to a glitch that occurs.
    I'm not kidding, this port shows a serious lack of polish. The kicker is that they delayed THIS version to avoid these issues. There should be a recall for this port, because I seriously doubt they will pay any mind to last gen players and send a patch.
    I really think legal action can be done here, as this product is unfinished and unplayable for most. I truly can't see someone playing something like this for long periods of time. It's that bad. Get a PS4 or Xbox One copy if possible. The difference is night and day! I see users giving this port a 10. Not on ANY planet is this port a 10, no matter how well you can ignore its flaws.    … Expand
  30. Zachalou
    Nov 30, 2014
    1
    Well! Lets give Monolith a round of applause for making a very nice game with- in my opinion, great combat mechanics in an interesting world.
    Then lets slap them in the **** face for making this a god awful steaming pile of excrement on PS3 that HARDLY even runs, and when it does- you wish it didn't.
    I just bought this game near 2 hours ago, and have encountered SO many glitches, frame    Well! Lets give Monolith a round of applause for making a very nice game with- in my opinion, great combat mechanics in an interesting world.
    Then lets slap them in the **** face for making this a god awful steaming pile of excrement on PS3 that HARDLY even runs, and when it does- you wish it didn't.
    I just bought this game near 2 hours ago, and have encountered SO many glitches, frame rate dropping, audio phasing completely out, NOTHING renders correctly... this is truly awful.    … Expand
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