I am keeping my expectations as low as possible. A task increasingly difficult with two weeks to release and articles like this. I'm sure it will be fine. Not spectacular or mind-blowing. All pre-ordered and paid for. I was initially pissed when DA:I got pushed to Nov. 18th. Now things are looking rosy with six weeks uninterruped.
Condemned and FEAR were at least solid maybe even great games but I'm a little surprised Monolith have made the switch to an open world, or at least large sandbox and to third-person view look easy.
'Shadows' will be considerably better than WitN which was easily the best LotR game I've played. Some pretty enjoyable MP moments with Conquest but the SP was just awful really, Third Age had atmosphere, decent characters and visuals for the time but the turn-based combat got old fast. Never played the Guardian series and the three games on Xbox were linear and dated by the time I tried them.
Unlike some here I understand my experience is very limited. Glance at this and you'll have an idea why PC gamers always seem so skeptical and a little bored with it all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-earth_in_video_games
Thanks for the thread GG and it does look like 'SOM2' is a sleeper on the scale of RDR last gen. So far. Or maybe more on Darksiders level for me. A very pleasant surprise.
Now no offense but I am outa here.
