Middle-earth: Shadow of War (2017)

Monolith Productions

PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 4 · Xbox One

3.61 from 1407 ratings

5908 members have it in their collection · 196 playing now · 2835 backlogged · 666 wish listed

How long? Main story 25h · with extras 38h · 100% 55h (from 56 logged playthroughs)

Go behind enemy lines to forge your army, conquer Fortresses and dominate Mordor from within. Experience how the award winning Nemesis System creates unique personal stories with every enemy and follower, and confront the full power of the Dark Lord Sauron and his Ringwraiths in this epic new story of Middle-earth.
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  • Oct 10, 2017 (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, Xbox One
  • Oct 10, 2017 (Europe) PlayStation 4
  • Oct 10, 2017 (North_America) PlayStation 4, Xbox One

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guiss1120

Review guiss1120 5/5 · Dec 14, 2020

Tolkien e todo o universo.

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Para a primeira análise, confesso que fiquei um pouco perdido, pois ao começar o jogo, viera uma cutscene e logo em seguida... BUM! Eles simplesmente te jogam no mundo "quase que aberto" de Minas Ithill, e sem entender muita coisa, fui explorá-lo.

Eu sou uma pessoa que, particularmente, gosto de aproveitar completamente o jogo, e por conta disso, platinei …

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Para a primeira análise, confesso que fiquei um pouco perdido, pois ao começar o jogo, viera uma cutscene e logo em seguida... BUM! Eles simplesmente te jogam no mundo "quase que aberto" de Minas Ithill, e sem entender muita coisa, fui explorá-lo.

Eu sou uma pessoa que, particularmente, gosto de aproveitar completamente o jogo, e por conta disso, platinei em aproximadamente 40 horas (mas isso não vem ao caso). Ao ser jogado no vasto mundo de Minas Ithill, comecei a andar sem entender os comandos ainda (apenas de bater e dominar um Uruk).

Possa ser que me adaptei facilmente a história por conta de conhecer o universo de Tolkien, e claro, sei que é apenas uma inspiração de cenário, e que não é utilizado toda a mitologia de Middle-Earth.

Enfim, já era acostumado com o sistema nêmesis e estava a batalhar contra Uruks, e o que me agradou, foi o fator de que mesmo jogando na dificuldade normal, os combates eram interessantes, e caso vacilasse, realmente morria.

Por falar em mortes, eu zerei o jogo com aproximadamente 10, sendo 3 vezes por vontade própria, afinal, há um troféu em que preciso recrutar um Uruk que me matou três vezes ou mais... E o resto? Foi burrice mesmo.

Retornando ao mundo aberto, comecei a me aventurar, pois tenho o dilema de seguir as missões secundários primeiro, e as primários... em segundo? Comecei escalando as Torres Haedir, purificando e liberando todos os colecionáveis da região. Fui pegando-os enquanto matava Uruk atrás de Uruk, Até que desbloqueei todas as palavras para libertar o primeiro Portão Ithildin e liberei a espada lendário.

Após os Portões Ithildin, fiz as Memórias de Laracna no local, e os Coletáveis de Gordon, após liberar tudo, liberei os Postos Avançados dominados por Uruks capitães. A partir daí, só me restava as missões principais mesmo.

Fiz tudo que tinha que fazer no Primeiro Ato, já estava forte, com gemas evoluídas, itens poderosos e me sentia pronto para o Ato 2, onde viajava até Núrnen e iniciava todo o núcleo do jogo... Criar o próprio exército! Não vou me aprofundar muito, pois fiz literalmente tudo que tinha que fazer em todas as regiões possíveis, aplicando o 100% em todas, o que me restava era evoluir os meu Uruks, pois eles eram "fracos", já que ganhar level por missões secundárias não estava mais rendendo.

Por falar em missões secundárias, a melhor de todas é a de matar Balrog. Obviamente todas as outras são ótimas, mas essa é magnifica, você interage com a Deusa Carnán para derrotá-lo.

Observação: Eu não fiquei com raiva do Brûz ter me traído por conta de sua carisma, após fazer as missões e humilhá-lo "pior que a morte", ele perde toda sua essência e vira depressivo, o que me deixou triste, então decidi recrutá-lo novamente... E deu certo!

Eu estou cortando muitas coisas para que não fique tão longa -já está muito longo-, mas após terminar o Ato 2, tomei todas as fortalezas possíveis e iniciei o Ato 3 com a maioria dos troféus.

Iniciei o Ato 3, que foi muito chato, já que é uma única missão de quase uma hora brigando na ponte para derrotar Sauron (e cara, é um plot sensacional jogar fazendo as missões secundárias e ligar a campanha principal com as Teias de Memória da Laracna). Após isso é a cena do Celembribor se fundindo com o Sauron e você virando um necromante insano.

Para finalizar, cheguei ao Ato 4, a famosa Guerra das Sombras, fora super tranquila de fazer e defendi todas as torres com êxito. Quando terminei a guerra, eu havia terminado o jogo em 100%, mas faltava um único troféu... Pegar 2500 pontos de invasão no online, fora super tranquilo e consegui platinar.

Foram cerca de 40 horas distribuídas em aproximadamente três semanas de jogatina, eu me diverti muito, minha nota total é 9 por conta de achar algumas partes repetitivas e extremamente monótonas, mas de forma geral, é um jogo incrível e te prende muito bem.

Infelizmente não pude jogar as expansões, mas falam que são divertidas também, e espero jogar algum dia.

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jademonkey

Status jademonkey Jul 17, 2020

I decided to skip out on the last little bit and just watch the ending after forcing myself to play a mission here or there for a couple of weeks. It started out as a 4.5/5 for me, but it certainly overstayed its welcome. I think that's partly my fault for playing around with the Nemesis system a bit too …

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I decided to skip out on the last little bit and just watch the ending after forcing myself to play a mission here or there for a couple of weeks. It started out as a 4.5/5 for me, but it certainly overstayed its welcome. I think that's partly my fault for playing around with the Nemesis system a bit too much before finishing the missions, but eh. I just don't enjoy the missions in this style of game that much, so once I'm done with the more freeform content, it's hard to muster the motivation to finish.

Also, it's one of those games that when things work well, it feels awesome and you feel like a badass.... but when they don't you'd rather be doing anything else. Heavy reliance on context sensitive buttons keeps the game feeling more streamlined and smoothe, but sometimes you're just not in the stream you think you are.

Anyway, I had a good time for 35 of the 40 hours I played and I'm looking forward to see what Monolith does with the Nemesis system going forward.

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Piohm

Status Piohm Jul 9, 2020

First arc 5 stars. Really enjoyable.

Second arc (defense) 1 star. pain and suffering through the grind.

The ending is ok.

NightTray

Status NightTray May 28, 2020

The game unfortunately just stopped working for me at some point and I can only chalk it up to something to do with the Windows Store. I'm not really keen on redownloading and reinstalling 100gbs again and have it potentially stop working out of nowhere again so I guess I'm finished with the game. Had a surprising amount of fun …

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The game unfortunately just stopped working for me at some point and I can only chalk it up to something to do with the Windows Store. I'm not really keen on redownloading and reinstalling 100gbs again and have it potentially stop working out of nowhere again so I guess I'm finished with the game. Had a surprising amount of fun with it in that I got it on a whim with no real expectations and enjoyed the gameplay loop far more than I thought I would. Especially as the upgrades starting rolling in. I watched the rest of the story cutscenes on youtube and it seemed all right though I don't really have anything to say about it. Story is usually the least of my concern when tackling any video game unless it's purely narrative driven, which at that point I'm more likely to watch someone else play it than actually play it myself. For 1$ though... fun game.

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NightTray

Status NightTray May 20, 2020

I picked this up for with the Xbox game pass on PC and it's honestly quite fun. I used to be big on LotR way back in high school so I thought I'd probably enjoy this and for the most part I do. However, I'm baffled by how often the environment seemingly works against you almost every step of the …

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I picked this up for with the Xbox game pass on PC and it's honestly quite fun. I used to be big on LotR way back in high school so I thought I'd probably enjoy this and for the most part I do. However, I'm baffled by how often the environment seemingly works against you almost every step of the way with how your character magnetizes to everything. For a game like this, magnetizing to terrain is understandable and necessary but god if it isn't incredibly annoying in the middle of fights against more than one captain. I'll probably continue playing for a while more cause for 1$ I'm not really complaining too much.

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Predefiance

Status Predefiance May 20, 2020

Started playing this one finally, despite having it sitting on my hard drive for a while now. Definitely like putting on an old pair of shoes - it feels familiar and comforting. I look forward to playing a lot more. I just love the combat system, it's so fluid and sick looking.

Heckler

Status Heckler Nov 23, 2019

I dropped this after putting in a not-insignificant amount of time, most because of the way Troy Baker started getting a little too grating for my taste, and just never got back to it. This is me putting it to bed indefinitely.

epeternally

Status epeternally Sep 30, 2019

I'm a little taken aback by how unpolished Shadow of War feels. The Nemesis system is overbearingly self-indulgent, a constant barrage of counter indicators kills the flow of combat, and the game's healing system isn't fit for purpose. Who wants to chase rats in order to heal? There's definitely some improvements over Shadow of Mordor but they all seem to …

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I'm a little taken aback by how unpolished Shadow of War feels. The Nemesis system is overbearingly self-indulgent, a constant barrage of counter indicators kills the flow of combat, and the game's healing system isn't fit for purpose. Who wants to chase rats in order to heal? There's definitely some improvements over Shadow of Mordor but they all seem to be one step forward and two steps back.

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kasparius

Status kasparius Feb 13, 2019

I loved the first game and held off on this because of the bad press surrounding the microtransactions, I had heard they had removed them and made updates to the game, but had lost some good will towards the publisher. I decided to make the plunge when it was recently on sale for $8.

I'm loving it, it's like the …

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I loved the first game and held off on this because of the bad press surrounding the microtransactions, I had heard they had removed them and made updates to the game, but had lost some good will towards the publisher. I decided to make the plunge when it was recently on sale for $8.

I'm loving it, it's like the first game, maybe even more fun. Will keep updating.

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Sadaharu_TR

Status Sadaharu_TR Dec 23, 2018

This game incredibly boring.

I played 20 hours. Level 32, setting legendary sets etc. But all same thing doing again and again. Basically orc killing simulator. I gathered almost all shelob memories, ithildin doors and few other things for a change but nope, still back to killing orcs all the time. Dominating drakes....was a fun a little...3 hours later again …

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This game incredibly boring.

I played 20 hours. Level 32, setting legendary sets etc. But all same thing doing again and again. Basically orc killing simulator. I gathered almost all shelob memories, ithildin doors and few other things for a change but nope, still back to killing orcs all the time. Dominating drakes....was a fun a little...3 hours later again mindlessly killing orcs. Repetitive and dull.

2/5.

Completed the game. After edit.

I downloaded the game again and did only the main missions and side missions. Game became interesting again. I kinda rush 10 hours to complete it from where i left. Deserves a second chance. Still not a good game. But not the worst either.

30 Hours. Level 50.

New point: 3/5

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CashLion

Status CashLion Sep 8, 2018

The Act 2 section is the best part of the game: Story quests mixed in with conquering regions. Once you reach the endgame sequence and it is nothing but conquering regions, the game becomes a bit too repetitive for people who do not get enough enjoyment from just that (like me).

acefighter117

Status acefighter117 May 14, 2018

This game almost lost me as a player twice. First I wasn't the greatest fan of the first "Shadow of Mordor", and with that i almost didn't attempt this game, But I gave it a chance... and regretted it..... at first. The second time this game almost lost me, was in act 1. It truly felt like the game had …

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This game almost lost me as a player twice. First I wasn't the greatest fan of the first "Shadow of Mordor", and with that i almost didn't attempt this game, But I gave it a chance... and regretted it..... at first. The second time this game almost lost me, was in act 1. It truly felt like the game had no depth, like it was just some giant demo, and because of that i almost gave up on it. But i didn't, and i am truly glad that i didn't. Turns out Act 1 was just a glorified tutorial, and act 2 was where all the fun was at. This game (From the beginning of act 2 and beyond) are actually truly amazing, The story is a masterful one. I met new allies, reunited with old ones (Albeit reluctantly), was stabbed in the back many times, all the kind of stuff needed for an amazing story. and the game play isn't half bad either, with the inclusion of hundreds more skills such as double jumping (that's what it is and that's what i'm calling it) it makes for a game that i would play over and over again. I would suggest this to anyone 15 and older, as its pretty mature in its gameplay.

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mindbender

Status mindbender Dec 24, 2017

Got this game as Christmas gift today - can’t wait to enter an even more epic Middle-Earth than the first game