Hello all, I've been looking into middle earth, and would like opinions on the game. I would be getting g it on the ps4, but I imagine all versions are virtually the same, so, any and all who have it , and, or, played it extensively,  I would like your brief thoughts on it. What game is it most like, game play wise. It seems to me to be alot like assassin's creed, from what I've seen of it. I see it is being reviewed well, but, I would like to hear it from regular gamers like you. 

The reason I ask, is, I have a harder and harder time believing reviews anymore from most of the well known sites and such. Everyone has their opinions, but none of you would be doing it for monetary gain, so I would appreciate all of your opinions on this game. Thank you all who reply.

It's a good game, just like Assassin's Creed mixed with Batman Arkham Series combat style & it has RPG element, the enemies get stronger if you died a lot, uhhh it's challenge anyway. The story is really good if you're big fan of LOTR or The Hobbit.

I wish i could admit honestly my negative lol.

Decent game.

Lovely world but no diversity in the environments, nice lightning but the backed weather and lighting system makes the world feel less alive and eventually boring to look at.

Gameplay wise, it is really a copy-pase from Assassin's Creed franchise. You mash a button for attacking, other button is to counter enemies attack. The problem for me is that you can counterattack even if you are in the middle of attacking animation yourself. That makes the battle system all about mashing buttons without any consideration for the timing. And also make the battle animations weird and out of place.

While attacking and using abilities could be very satisfying in the beginning, the battle system also end up being repetitive with no depth to explore. Only one weapon to use. The abilities could be cool, but they fail add depth to the system. The developer try to cover the dumbed-down system with using hordes of enemies in each battle. I love using the bow though.

Just like Assassin's Creed, you get abilities like eagle eye, and stealth kill. Also copy-pasted some world elements like climbing towers to reveal everything on the map.

Lovely sounds design. The nemesis system is very good (something new... Finally)

 While the story is nothing special and fails to evoke any kind of emotions or make you care, it could be enjoyable for LoTR fans.

All in all, the game is decent and enjoyable enough to give it a try. But the lack of ambition is obvious. It got good scores merely for the fact that the expectations were too low.

I was told it was like Arkham... :/

it's a good game it seems but for whatever reason I can't seem to get into the story of the game and I am a LOTR fan. Haven't really touched it much and will probably be getting rid of it soon.

Arkham and AC combat system are similar, they are based on attack and counterattak system. Considering the other elements that are identical to AC I found the experience as a whole much closer to AC.

I love the game, just started my second playthrough.

I really like the combatsystem wich is strange beacuse I hated AC's combat.

Not really. Arkham combat is way deeper. AC is more of a means to an end.

Yeah Arkham seems to incorporate dodging and stunning and the combination moves more whereas AC I pretty always use the handy counter.  Enemy variety is definitely better in Arkham.

The game is good, there are multiple ways to play it. For instance you can turn captains against each other, brand a character you like to rise up in rank and control many Urks, convince captains to assassinate war chiefs or assassinate everyone yourself. Also every captain and warchief has a distinct personality with strengths and weaknesses. I thought it was just a regular Batman carbon copy but there are a lot more elements to it. It also requires more than on playthrough to get full enjoyment from it cause there are so many dimensions to progress in the story.