Eh, very rinse and repeat, lots of filler, artificial errand stuff and the story missions are whatever. Combat potential is there but the movement is not, it's very awkward, clunky, old and half the time I'm abusing my A button just to climb a damn wall; it's annoying having to sprint everywhere otherwise I'm walking slow as hell. Cheap gank squads in missions just make it tedious rather than invigorating. I guess if you're a die-hard LOTR fan then it's okay but as just another combative video game, there's others better than this, like Dragon's Dogma. Of course, Dogma's better than any combat game, equal only to Sekiro for me, and even then Sekiro's replay value dwarfs in comparison. Anyway, this game's a 5/10. Now I understand other reviews that called it "orc-killing simulator" because that's really all it's been.

Eh, very rinse and repeat, lots of filler, artificial errand stuff and the story missions are whatever. Combat potential is there but the movement is not, it's very awkward, clunky, old and half the time I'm abusing my A button just to climb a damn wall; it's annoying having to sprint everywhere otherwise I'm walking slow as hell. Cheap gank squads in missions just make it tedious rather than invigorating. I guess if you're a die-hard LOTR fan then it's okay but as just another combative video game, there's others better than this, like Dragon's Dogma. Of course, Dogma's better than any combat game, equal only to Sekiro for me, and even then Sekiro's replay value dwarfs in comparison. Anyway, this game's a 5/10. Now I understand other reviews that called it "orc-killing simulator" because that's really all it's been.