Middle-Earth: Shadow of War

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Considering I played through the first game on both PS4 and Xbox One, oh yeah, I enjoyed the hell out of that game.

This one though is much deeper. More skills, upgrades of the skills (mini skills if you want to call them), armor and cloak equipment in addition to the sword, bow and dagger. New things called gems that can be used to upgrade your weapons and increase your damage, your health, the damage of your followers, etc.

There are challenges to achieve to upgrade your gear. All gear have different perks to them, so the best stat (melee attack for swords for instance) may not necessarily be the best weapon if there's one that is slightly lower attack, but much better perks.

Then the amount of quests. You've got Gondor quests, Shelob quests, four other quests chains that I don't even have access to yet, you've got nemesis missions, Shadows of thr Past, which let you learn more about Celebrimbor's history and story and get some rewards for completing the objectives (mirian for one objective, skill points for completing two and either gems or gear for completing all three objectives). There's Shelob memories to collect to learn more about the claims she's telling you, Ithildin to collect to unlock the Ithildin door in region for some high level gear, and Gondorian artifacts.

Also, it might just be me, but it seems like there are a LOT more captains than the last game. I can barely go anywhere without running into at least one randomly. And one spot in Minas Ithil, I somehow ended up in a fight with three different bloody captains.

And you have to strategize your fights much more this time. There are multiple new orc tribes and tons of variations of orcs and captains, all of which require different strategies. Also you can now be ambushed. I was just standing on a ledge while typing this, all of a sudden a captain appeared out of nowhere behind me and ambushed me.

So at its base, it's very much like the first game, but this one is SOOOOOO much deeper and has some serious RPG depth to it, far much more than the first one. And the amount of options alone for skills allows you to truly customize and tailor your Talion to your own tastes and skills. Right now, the way I've built my Talion out through level 7, I doubt there's another person with the exact same order of skill unlocks that I've chosen thus far.

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