![]() ![]() Even still: the balancing is great throughout, creating an extremely fun yet still partially challenging experience. ![]() This is not to say the game is overly easy, just that the normal difficulty is not super difficult. The game is very generous with dosing out plenty of potions to regenerate health and power, so you will probably not ever die a whole lot. These special abilities expend your power (mana/magic) meter as you use them. ![]() Generally combat consists of you using your light and heavy attacks to string together combos (along with a nifty critical hit/Hero Mode feature that allows some spectacular finishing blows that result in slo-mo and dismemberment at times) along with your special abilities. The combat is incredibly fluid and easy to get into, the dodge roll is incredibly functional, mixing in blocks with combos is great, each of the three characters is balanced very well, and the leveling system works great. There are just soooo many items to collect, and armor and weapons to customize your character with, it is pretty astounding. Battles on face may seem to get a bit repetitive, but anyone that likes dungeon crawlers, loot crazy experiences or action RPGs in general, will find a lot to love here. Now to the best part of this game: the gameplay. There are all types of one and two handed weapons, staves, shields, etc. The weapons on the other hand, do not have this issue. Let me clarify however: there are a lot of armor types, and the model shown in game will change based on which character is equipping it, but during certain periods of the game, you will “upgrade” armor, but it will not actually change what it looks like on your character. NPCs have a bit of emotion, but their faces never really have a whole lot of expression in them, save for the giant eagles and the dragon, they are pretty emotive fellas (and a bit creepy too…)Īdditionally, it is unfortunate how much the armor lacks variety in some ways. When talking with NPCs, I noticed the elemental outline of my weapon, while my character was not actually holding the weapon.Īnother unfortunate thing about the dialogue is that the player characters seem like they have the least amount of emotion out of all the characters in the game. Another one of the biggest glitches of the game happens only during dialogue. You will run into quite a few glitches with enemies stuck in walls, frozen entirely while standing there, or having corpses randomly appearing and disappearing at times. But, even the visuals are not absolutely perfect. Combat is full of bloody gore, and deaths are complete with decapitations and dismemberment if timed correctly. Snowblind did a great job of capturing the mythos of the series, while also raising the bar for action RPGs in general.Īnother thing to note: this is the first M rated LOTR game. A lot of games are pretty bland in the environment, you might catch some blurry textures on the walls or floors, or some muddled environment backgrounds, but not this time. The character models are fantastic, the animations are great, and the environments are stunning. They did a fantastic job of creating a visual delight here. Problems with the story aside, the rest of this game is pretty fantastic. In fact, there is not even a character bio summary on the character selection screen. This problem is compounded by the fact that you know next to nothing about the main characters of the game. A lot of the characters do have quite a lot to say, and some are even interesting to talk to, but there is little motivation to do so. On your journey in the North, you will have the opportunity to pick up a few side quests, talk to some of the NPCs, and do some other interesting stuff. The game starts out with a Gandalf impersonation, and then you are placed in the Prancing Pony tavern at Bree, speaking with Aragorn a couple days before Frodo and friends stop by on their quest. Besides this explanation, the story takes a backseat for the rest of the game, for the most part. Doom in order to destroy the One Ring, this fellowship is leading the charge in the North to prevent Agandaur (Sauron’s chief lieutenant) from taking over the Northern realms of Middle-Earth. The game follows the story of a separate fellowship of adventurers, an elf lore-master, human ranger and dwarf champion. ![]() With some fantastic gameplay, beautiful graphics, and a great hack n’ slash loot nabbing experience you should really do yourself a favor and play this one! Unfortunately, a bunch of gamers are probably going to miss this game, given all of the other great games coming out soon. The franchise has had a lot of awesome games, some even great, but this is probably the best one so far. The best Lord of the Rings game ever made is upon us, and it is a blast to play. ![]()
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