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Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
$29.99Very Positive–
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Mad Max
$39.99Very Positive–
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Ryse: Son of Rome
$19.99Very Positive–
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Batman: Arkham Knight
$29.99Mostly Positive–
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Batman: Arkham City
$19.99Overwhelmingly Positive–
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Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor

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Different enemies require different tactics

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Bosses in this game have different immunities and different weaknesses. This is why it's important to get intel from defeated orcs: they will reveal a chieftain's vulnerabilities (for instance: takedowns, finishers, ranged attacks, fire,...).
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Great out-of-stealth combat

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Stealth and takedowns are only the beginning. Once you're out of stealth is when the party starts. This game provides you with an out-of-stealth combat system that is very similar to Ryse: Son of Rome. That means that essentially, enemies take turns to attack you, but they can join in on the fi...
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Stealth & stealth combat

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Shadows of Mordor features a climbing mechanic similar to Assassin's Creed games combined with stealth takedowns in the style of Far Cry 3. It all ties together very neatly and the gameplay is very smooth. Movement in this game overall is smoother than in Assassin's Creed titles. Takedowns...
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Only about 30 hours long

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While 30 hours is not the shortest game out there, it is pretty short for an open world action RPG. Sadly this 30 hours is the majority of content in the game, if one just wants to do the main missions, the game can be completed in under 6 hours.
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Mad Max

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Fun car combat

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Mad Max' most prominent unique selling point is its car combat. Upgrading your car for performance and combat is the driving mechanic of the game, pun intended. You'll be scavenging scraps to upgrade engine, exhaust, armor, spikes, different weaponry etcetera. The combat will consist of ri...
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ThomasHuayra
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Intuitive melee combat

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The melee combat is very similar to Arkham combat: You're outnumbered by warboys who take turns to attack you. You have a basic punch attack (holding the assigned button will make you punch harder), a parry skill + counter and a combat roll that serves as a universal evade. You do have a shotgu...
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ThomasHuayra
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Immersive atmosphere

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This game has a very gritty, raw atmosphere with an open world that's a former seabed, but is now dry and barren. The game does a good job of making you feel alone and trying to survive. Friendship doesn't really exist in this world, just favor-for-a-favor understandings. Make sure you alwa...
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Quite repetitive

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This game offers a lot of different activities. Apart from its main storyline, there are a lot of camps to clear out, scarecrows and sniper towers to take down, convoys to destroy and minefields to clear. Along the road you'll be collecting parts to upgrade strongholds. There are also races you...
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Resources aren't scarce

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The survival elements of this game that are meant to make this land feel hostile, are actually quite trivial. You won't really feel like you're in a troublesome shortage of water, fuel or even ammo at any point, definitely if you've upgraded one of the strongholds to automatically refi...
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Ryse: Son of Rome

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Intuitive combat

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This game is possibly the purest example of a freeflow brawler combat game. The player has a basic attack, a parry/block move, a defense/shield breaking move and a combat roll that serves as a universal evade. Successful hits are counted in a hit chain, that after a certain number allows the player...
ThomasHuayra
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Superb graphics

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Ryse: Son of Rome has fantastic, realistic looking graphics. It was ahead of the curve in 2013 and still is up there with the best today.
ThomasHuayra
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PC port is not well optimized

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Even people who have a powerful gaming PC to today's standards experience some stuttering in the framerate at some points.
ThomasHuayra
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Repetitive

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Make sure you love the combat system, because that's pretty much all you'll be doing throughout the game. It's a linear game with nice cinematic sequences, but in the end, you just move from place to place slashing up a bunch of copy paste mobs. The variety in this game consists of thin...
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Batman: Arkham Knight

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Supports arbitrary resolutions

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Including 21:9 widescreen aspect ratio and 4K resolutions.
ThomasHuayra
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Large city to explore

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A large city comprised of three separate islands makes up the area playable in game. Which is huge, making for much to explore for the player.
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A blast driving the batmobile

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Arkham Knight has the open world aspect of the previous game but has now introduced the Batmobile for use on the street with a full weapon loadout. Being able to drive around thee streets of Gotham as well as use the vehicle to take down bad guys makes for an exciting experience not seen in the ser...
ThomasHuayra
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Poor initial PC port

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This game initially suffered from an awful PC port that made the game initially borderline unplayable. It was withdrawn from sale for a while until a better port was completed. Now, the game runs much better, but there's still some stuttering here and there.
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Batman: Arkham City

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Excellent freeflow combat system

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This game's predecessor, Arkham Asylum, pioneered a new kind of freeflow combat system that's intuitive, highly responsive and supplemented with power-ups, combos and ability to use gadgets to add variety and depth.
ThomasHuayra
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Challenge maps and lots of side missions can be used to break up the gameplay

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here are quite a lot of side missions players can play to break up the story segments of the game. Even better is that they are still accessible when the main story is completed.
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Batman: Arkham Asylum

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Freeflow combat pioneer

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Arkham Asylum is the first game to bring us freeflow brawler melee combat in its full glory. It invented the combat genre where you fight a multitude of enemies who take turns attacking you, while the player has a basic attack, a parry+counter and a combat roll. Getting multiple hits in on enemies...
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Fun stealth & gadgets

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Remaining stealthy and getting stealth takedowns is important in Arkham Asylum's gameplay. Arkham Asylum gives the player a relatively large number of different gadgets to use for different combat purposes, such as ranged takedowns, cutting ropes, diverting enemies' attention, blasting thro...
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ThomasHuayra
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Dark atmosphere

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You won't realize how many shades of black exist until you've played an Arkham game. It's always dark outside, so to people who like daylight and colors in their games, this might get a bit dull after a while.
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