Abandoned after a little over twenty hours. The gameplay is your average open-world action RPG that has you move from one point of interest to another and complete missions. Building your orc army is fun at first, but gets quite repetitive over time especially when you are asked to grind for hours. Not to mention that every time you bump into a captain you have to listen to them babble about themselves, which is not exactly fun when you run into 5 or 6 orcs at once.
I am not a big Lord of the Rings fan, but the story was quite easy to follow despite being a little fragmentary and full of hard-to-remember names.
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This is one of my pet favourite games. Everything good about the Nemesis system returns and is greatly improved and expanded upon. Yet just like the original I absolutely lose my shit trying to deal with the awful fucking controls. Trying to wrangle Talion's dumbass into doing what I want is the real epic conflict at the center of the game. Miraculously the game manages to still be more than fun enough to just deal with it, but sometimes it feels like I'm deliberately punishing myself by playing it. Oh, and Celebrimbor is probably even more annoying here than in SoM.
Also the sheer breadth of orc dialogue is insane. You can hear other captains yell out a captain's name when you kill them, which I can only imagine being an astronomical amount of work to go through and record those reactions for different names with each voice actor. The orcs are the end-all-be-all of this game, no question about it.