The fact that this game was met with acclaim and GOTY awards on release really shows how far triple-A games have come since 2014. A lobotomized take on the Arkham formula that stretches one halfway interesting mechanic into 15 hours of increasingly-dull mob fights. The combat is reasonably fun and engaging for the first few hours, and I actually died quite a few times in the early game. However, once you start filling out the tech trees, you become an unbridled killing machine, and it feels like you're playing the game on God Mode. Don't get me wrong, Shadow of Mordor is far from a bad game, but it's a deeply uninteresting piece of work, and that makes it difficult to recommend.