Your typical factory-molded, risk-averse, generic open world game, so it shouldn't come off as a surprise that the story fucking sucks ass, but I will say that if it hadn't chose to wear Tolkien's work as a corpse to try to sell more copies of the game, inherently comparing itself with the most recognized fantasy artpiece in the world, it wouldn't draw so much attention to that fact.
Also, Warner, shove a swordfish up your ass, I'm surprised you decided to trademark the nemesis system, depriving everyone else in the medium of improving it, taking into account that it is a pretty barebones gimmick.