NOT WORTH BUYING!
Very bad cover mixed together game from 2 great games, but a very bad mix.
- Assassin's Creed, the tower thingie and "open world"
- badman combatsystem (i would say ripoff, but it's from the same studio so...)
The other features are very useless cheap and not even worth mentioning

Overall: i don't know the LOTR thing and i don't saw the movies or read the books. i only played this game as gamer and not fanboy. My review is on gaming, not fan worshiping! So if you are a fanboy and i hurt your feeling - go fk yourself.

The biggest problem is that the gameplay realy suxx. Yes it's quiet fast and the skills are maybe fun, but after a very little time you always use the same skills, you got maybe another skill after a little time, but overall it's again and again the same thing. This would be so bad for a combatsystem like batman was, if there was any sense in it. the skills you use, are only the slaugter endless waves of enemys and for absolute no reason. if the tower is anyway alarted, the senseless wavekilling starts. you need killed tons of enemys and why?... ehm no fkin clue, only to kill 1 general that is absolute senseless immun to your arrow, so that you have go closecombat with your sword against hundrest of enemys... very sad Dev-Team, very sad.

The controlls realy suxx, i played this game with an XBox-Controller and it's quiet unbearable to play this game. you very often jump uncontrolled from towers (mostly in a horde of enemys) or crawl abwards a wall in the wrong direction. If you want go stealth (as i think the games want you to) than this will be pain in your ass. you often have to wrong target, arrows stuck in invisible walls and a long range hit often let you miss the target because it arrow disappear. the riding is absolute useless, you nealy never come close anoth to this big dogs (?) to jump on them.

The story maybe would be any fun, if you can play the story without this breaks. you need to run through the whole map dozens of time for absolute no reason. the finding of targets maybe would be fun, if there where any reason for this. you kill one another comes, you kill that, another comes... and so on.

NOT WORTH BUYING! Very bad cover mixed together game from 2 great games, but a very bad mix. - Assassin's Creed, the tower thingie and "open world" - badman combatsystem (i would say ripoff, but it's from the same studio so...) The other features are very useless cheap and not even worth mentioning Overall: i don't know the LOTR thing and i don't saw the movies or read the books. i only played this game as gamer and not fanboy. My review is on gaming, not fan worshiping! So if you are a fanboy and i hurt your feeling - go fk yourself. The biggest problem is that the gameplay realy suxx. Yes it's quiet fast and the skills are maybe fun, but after a very little time you always use the same skills, you got maybe another skill after a little time, but overall it's again and again the same thing. This would be so bad for a combatsystem like batman was, if there was any sense in it. the skills you use, are only the slaugter endless waves of enemys and for absolute no reason. if the tower is anyway alarted, the senseless wavekilling starts. you need killed tons of enemys and why?... ehm no fkin clue, only to kill 1 general that is absolute senseless immun to your arrow, so that you have go closecombat with your sword against hundrest of enemys... very sad Dev-Team, very sad. The controlls realy suxx, i played this game with an XBox-Controller and it's quiet unbearable to play this game. you very often jump uncontrolled from towers (mostly in a horde of enemys) or crawl abwards a wall in the wrong direction. If you want go stealth (as i think the games want you to) than this will be pain in your ass. you often have to wrong target, arrows stuck in invisible walls and a long range hit often let you miss the target because it arrow disappear. the riding is absolute useless, you nealy never come close anoth to this big dogs (?) to jump on them. The story maybe would be any fun, if you can play the story without this breaks. you need to run through the whole map dozens of time for absolute no reason. the finding of targets maybe would be fun, if there where any reason for this. you kill one another comes, you kill that, another comes... and so on.