Love this game. I bought it on the back of reviews I'd read and was pleasently surprised. It's like a combination of Assassin's Creed style exploration with Arkham Asylum combat with a sprinking of comedy provided by the Uruks (like big Orks).
The graphics are great, the animations are slick and the sound affects fit perfectly. It's fully licensed too so, for example to Gollum in the game is the Andy Serkis Gollum from the film series.
The biggest innovation comes from the hierarchy system. There are hundred of Uruks about but if any one on them 'kills' you, they get promoted to Captain in Sauron's army, providing they survive a dual with the Uruk currently holding that position. From then on you can target that Captain and hunt them down but simply running in, swinging your sword won't always be enough because each Captain has it's own skills and weaknesses. How do you find out what they are? Beat the crap out of a "worm", essentially any Uruk who knows a bit about his Captain and use your Wraith powers to read his mind before slaughtering him.
Sometimes you'll fail to take revenge because, not only do they become more powerful but also inlfuence rurrounding Uruks to attack you so you're generally massively outnumbered.
As an extra touch of genius, if any of your friends also have the game you can do vengeance missions where you can take out troublesome Captain for them and visa-versa.
Can't recomment this game enough, my kids love it too. I was aprehensive about a LOTR themed game but it's brilliantly done.
Best game on the PS4 so far... though GTA V is out on Tuesday
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