Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is a open world third-person action role-playing video game developed by Monolith Productions and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, which takes place in the world of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium. The game takes place in the 60-year gap between the events of Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings. It is a story of revenge, slaughter, and mystery set entirely in Mordor, the Land of Shadows. At its center is Talion, an ordinary man who loses everything, including his mortal life. The game is set in a fully open world, and features various role-playing game elements such as experience points and skills. There are various ways the player can complete their main objective. Aside from the main storyline, there are various side quests and random events the player can complete within Mordor. The melee system is inspired by that of the Batman Arkham series. Getting into a good fighting rhythm, using both regular attacks and counter-attacks will improve the player's combo multiplier. A unique feature of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is the Nemesis system. Every enemy in the game has their own name, rank, and memory. These enemies will continue to do their own jobs and tasks even when they're off screen. If the player does not kill an enemy in an encounter, this enemy will remember the player and change their tactics and conversations based on the encounter.
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kill orcs and kill more orcs, did I already say that you have to kill orcs?
That being said, the nemesis system is very very cool! It's great later in the game when you can command and army of enemies and create infighting between the captains and war chiefs. Taking a loser ass urik and turning him into a gigachad war chief is so fun. If only that translated to the rest of the game.
The story is fine. It really just didnt grab me. Skipping through most of the cutscenes probably didn't help that too much. But you know what really didn't help is that they kind of just throw you into the open world and let you go wild. You do the first story mission and then it's really of the races with towers to climb, side missions, main missions, nemesis shit. It's all a bit too overwhelming and it moves so fast. You can complete shit so quick that it feels almost meaningless. That's exactly why I stopped playing the first time like 8 years ago. I was doing so much side stuff I forgot what the main mission was and which icon was for the main story missions lol.
Still though it's a pretty fun game, probably worth your time.
Is it better than an Assassin's Creed game? Depends on which one you play, but probably not.