| VXIII said: Decent game. I'd say it's worth it. 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 except for the combat which is a little more refined. 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 execpt for one ( shadow strike ). The developer try to cover the dumbed-down system with using hordes of enemies in each battle. 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, the world 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 ( especially boss fights ). Good game, but overrated imo. |
I agree with your summary, but there is one simple to way to describe combat. Batman Arkham Asylum
It's just identical, even down to the buttons. I have never played 2 games of different franchises so alike in that respect
But it's quite fun for 15 hours. I never really fell in love with the Nemesis system and once you get into the rythmn (which I had from a lot of time spent on Arkham Asylum) it's really rather easy
