Game Information
Overall Rank: 1982
Average Rating: 4/5
# of Ratings: 1
US Release Date: 09/30/2014
Platform: PC (Steam)
Genres: Action (Action/Adventure, Stealth)
ESRB Rating: M
Developer: Monolith Productions
Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive
Also Available On: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Synopsis: On the night Sauron returns to Mordor, the Black Rangers who man the Black Gate are brutally executed. Ranger Talion watches as all he holds dear is taken from him... including his life. But the spirit of vengeance chooses him to enact bloody revenge - Talion awakens, and he will stop at nothing for his personal justice. The game introduces a Nemesis System - each encounter can provide a personal archenemy you will encounter throughout the game - and as Talion seeks vengeance, a story unfolds about the spirit who brought him back, the power of the One Ring and finding out who his true enemy really is.
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Name that Orc!
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 02/20/2018
Hot on the heels of the critically-mediocre Beat ‘Em Up, “Lord of the Rings: War in the North,” Warner Bros., the movie studio that owns the official non-book media rights to everything related to the late author and philologist, J.R.R. Tolkien’s, seminal ‘Middle-Earth’ mythology created yet another new licensed game based on the IP made popular by the “Lord of the Rings” movie trilogy directed by Peter Jackson. After the afore-mentioned Beat ‘Em Up, a pair of well-received RTSes (“Battle for Middle-Earth” and its sequel), and an abysmal RPG in “Lord of the Rings: The Third Age” (to name a few), I was content to acknowledge that licensed games based on movies based on books are universally not worth the time or money to experience them. But this newest take on …
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