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If Shdow of Mordor’s story is a let-down, the gameplay is at least adequate. It doesn’t make up for the mediocre material for most of the game, but it does go out on a high note. I did appreciate the lightened tone but the whole thing was out of place. The guy talks non-stop about how much he loves hunting, and how hunting is his mistress but doesn’t nag like his wife, and is a very cartoony comic relief character in a grimdark game. Also there’s an interlude with a dwarf hunter that’s very different in tone from the rest of the game and silly to the point of parody. It supplements this with lore, but in the end it’s just a bunch of LOTR flavored weak tea. It needs to introduce familiar LOTR concepts and characters, but it can’t really do anything with them. The game is between a rock and a hard place. They try, by focusing much of the story on helping particular NPCs escape Mordor and trying to create stakes in the survival of Talion’s friends, but Talion’s friends are boring stock characters and I didn’t really care what happened to any of them. Nothing he does really matters and I don’t think the developers could have done much to fix that. Talion, not being part of the main crew, is naturally forced to the sidelines. We know who the important players are and how events will play out. We already know the story of Lord of the Rings.
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The second issue comes from the license itself. His wraith sidekick fares a little better, but has relatively few story quests focused on him, and isn’t fully fleshed out. Talion is stoic and strong and super boring. That’s not to say you couldn’t do something good with it, but the game doesn’t. We have seen this a million times before. Talion is another brown-haired 30-something male protagonist who is mad because the bad guys killed his family. The first issue is common in games, but that doesn’t make it acceptable. Unfortunately the game squanders this cool premise on a hum-drum story, which is boring for two reasons: 1) Talion is a boring character. The character can look like Talion, the wraith, or some combination of the two. The game's two maps are small for a modern open world game. The wraith also speaks to Talion throughout the game, and it works to add a companion character and a relationship to a game that’s mostly about you, alone, in a very hostile world (though there are some other, living, NPCs you interact with.) Talion can also access the wraiths powers to do things like teleport, slow time, stun enemies with the wraith’s touch, and even come back to the dead (even within the game's fiction.) This is Talion. Most of the time your character presents as Talion, but he switches to wraith form at various points, such as when climbing wraith towers or using his bow. The idea of a dual-character, half-ranger half-wraith, is a good one, and the game does a fair amount with it. The pair then proceed to exact brutal revenge on the uruks who have invaded Mordor. Shadow of Mordor tells the story of Talion, a ranger in Mordor, which has been overrun by uruks, who is killed with his family at the beginning of the game and merged with a long-dead wraith. Watching the uruks fight various creatures is a neat future of the game, but gets old relatively quickly. Down below we see two ghuls attack an uruk. Do you like scraggly grass textures and rock? You're going to love this game's look. It’s a mechanically mediocre, kind of ugly, game that barely tells a story and has a cute gimmick that it doesn’t do that much with. If I had to give it a grade it would be 7 out of 10, and on the Giant Bomb scale I would round down to 3 stars. A fine game, a good even, but it is nowhere near top tier.
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Games like Uncharted 2, which was polished to a gorgeous sheen, The Last of Us, which was a haunting and intense survival journey, or Saints Row the Third, a game I played on PS3 in 2015 when we were well into the 8 th generation and had a heck of a fun time with. I think of Giant Bomb GOTYs as titans of the industry, the best of the best. Having finished the game now I can say that it held my attention well enough, but I have no idea how it earned the plaudits it did on release, or how it became game of the year in a year that also featured Sunset Overdrive, Forza Horizon 2, and Shovel Knight. This was an inauspicious start, but I’d always intended to play SoM (I bought it at launch from Dell only to have the shipment delayed months) and I was very much in the mood for an open world game to just run around and cause havoc in. The impetus for my finally playing Shadow of Mordor was a bunch of people naming it in a forum thread on games they just couldn’t get into.