A game to enslave me ...

I read ages ago / views a few reports about the game and I was interested right away. Of course, because I am a big Lord of the Rings fan, but also because commitments with games in this style.

So yesterday the game Just have taken and in the meantime played a few hours.

For the entire story and the corresponding course of course I can not say too much. But the previously seen talking to me and is also sufficient to captivate me. It remains to be seen whether this still enter expressions or whether the story but is fairly straight on.
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The game is played out in the meantime. And as might be expected, the story now is not the best. Ultimately, a linearly extending revenge story, but at least managed to keep me in a good mood and was perfectly adequate to frame the context for the game.

The graphics and appearance is good. You feel right at home as a Lord of the Rings fan and I am thrilled with the graphics, the design of the characters as well as the movement sequences. The game takes place smoothly and so far without much obvious bugs / errors.
Noticeable here are in terms of climbing positions and the battle system, the similarities to the Assassin's Creed and Batman series. But rather stolen good "made a bad self.

Here it is for me personally also wonderful to see that the fighting, especially against larger groups have a certain degree of difficulty. The Assassin's Creed games my fight deposits were unfortunately kept getting a little too easy. Do not expect that you're already dying just before each time opponent, but you have not at least made it to the player to simply now.

The AI ​​is largely in order. Whereby to complain about here, that the opponent does not notice a now and then even though you have just killed another orc. But I've also seen worse AI and as already mentioned in the mass are the opponents quite dangerous and the main men are not always too easy to crack.
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Here I also found it very nice that the orcs - at least the main men - remember a principle and try to provoke and taunt. The game mechanics in this regard could me more than convincing and will determine in the future in a similar way in other games use.

The game variety is far enough for me. Apart from the main missions has still various other side missions and areas which can, as is now common for games, exploring and can do.

I welcome the opportunities that a stay open in dealing with the enemy. Whether direct confrontation or possibly even assassination. You can make it in different ways. Moreover, the mind function "available which can also still an otherwise options open. The ability to interrogate opponents or probably to manipulate the course of the game even further (I hope this aspect works as advertised) brings some new elements into the game ,
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The manipulation of the opponent or the opponent to draw on their own page works beautifully and opened a later further options. Again and again I've caught as I "brand" all captains on a map and wanted my actual missions have neglected.

With shadow of Mordor, the game world was invented not new, but it has done many things right and has created a solid game. I can only recommend the game to test or as a fan of the AC series and / or LOTR fan to zuzulegen the game.