This title doesn't receive nearly enough praise for taking many mechanics and features from other games and improving them all to become its own beast.
In the Batman Arkham series you can get through most combat by mashing parry; in Shadow of Mordor that will lead you to get brutalized by grunts.
In Assassin's Creed you have to meticolously and slowly find ledges to climb up a house; in Shadow of Mordor you run up to a 100-meter wall, leap towards it, climb to the top and drop into a cluster of orcs on the other side in a 5 second span.
The story is whatever, with only the intro and a couple of character interactions resembling anything good, but the first orcs you meet and that keep giving you trouble will probably stick with you more, deservingly so.
In the Batman Arkham series you can get through most combat by mashing parry; in Shadow of Mordor that will lead you to get brutalized by grunts.
In Assassin's Creed you have to meticolously and slowly find ledges to climb up a house; in Shadow of Mordor you run up to a 100-meter wall, leap towards it, climb to the top and drop into a cluster of orcs on the other side in a 5 second span.
The story is whatever, with only the intro and a couple of character interactions resembling anything good, but the first orcs you meet and that keep giving you trouble will probably stick with you more, deservingly so.