Im having a great time playing this game. I love the story line, which is not to full on itself, and not too packed with useless details, and i really like most of the gameplay. There have been quite a few glitches i have ran into over the last couple of weeks, and the gameplay is basically similar to Assassins creed but not quite are robust, more like the very first assassins creed where you are limited to only climbing certain things, and its not super intuitive. Like you have to always press x (even if you are holding it already) to get on top of a wall or platform, and you often come up to a wall while being chased by a band of Urucks and you don’t naturally jump on to the wall, but have to make a few approaches to actually get the game to realize that you are trying to go up the wall. One other issue is that a lot of the object in the world are "larger" than they actually are, meaning that a torch sitting there on the ground takes up much more invisible space than the visible part of the image, this makes for annoying getaways and just moving about as well, i have run myself into an invisible corner more than once in a opening that should be plenty big enough for me and or my Catagor.

Other than those few minor glitches, i am really forgiving because i have seriously been addicted to every other aspect of the gameplay. I really like the Saurons Army feature, where your gameplay determines who makes up the army, and no matter how you play it can be all kinds of different outcomes! Most of the combos, and special abilities and Runes aren’t quite as deep, game changing and robust as i would like them to be, but again could be because of the comparison to other games with a similar gameplay and function like Assassins Creed, and Infamous.

I really hate move games, especially those that follow the plotline to the "T" (Spiderman movie games, Iron Man…) but when a game takes an original spin on an existing universe, this game has made me realize that is Gold! Of course it help that am a huge Lord of The Rings fan, but that said I did not care much for any previous lord of the rings video game, because the gameplay is unexciting because you already know the outcome. With this game, It basically falls between the events of The Hobbit, and the Trilogy, and though we know what becomes of Sauron and his army, I’m anxious to see how our protagonist plays into the whole picture!

This game really makes me with game makers will do similar universe expansions on other epic novels and movies. Much like the force unleashed series, the prospect of some new stories to a universe that I already love is just awesome to me!