Videogamer takes a look at 30 minutes of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor on PS4.
Unfortunately, the open worlds in games like Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, Halo Infinite, and the original Assassin's Creed do more harm than good.
I legitimately loved Halo's switch to open world. They made traversal of the map entertaining, and everything involved just tied into the (what I consider) awesome gunplay.
The entire time I really felt the slow takeover of the map, and all the little steps forward felt satisfying.
I don't know what more people really want there, considering the setting and story. A handful of soldiers hunkered down on enemy territory; slowly trying to win the battle.
I agree I liked the switch to the open world, it was large with beautiful land scapes. However, it did feel a bit empty, and wasn’t as action packed as I would have liked. A lot of the bases felt like fillers instead of something of wonder. Let’s see what 343 under new management does from here cause Halo needs some updating
I'm surprised they scrapped the Slipspace engine. I thought the graphics looked great, the sandbox physics were as good as ever, and the AI worked well. Clearly a lot of work went into it and it appears to have been optimized for the new generation of GPUs. The only issue I had with it was the lack of environments, would have been cool to have different biomes on the ring to explore. A bit more variety in missions would have been nice, maybe some timed events where you have to manuever a banshee through forerunner architecture or some mongoose speedruns would have spiced things up.
I think R* are the only ones who have made compelling open worlds. I can’t stomach most open world games and how boring they are with busy world. It’s like a flex to make this massive environment, but it’s extremely boring to traverse and play in. GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2 blew me away with how incredible their worlds were. Elden Ring was the only other game to give me that sense of awe.
GTA V and unfortunately, Saints Row the original have had some of the most aggressive open world features where the world doesn’t feel so bland. To me what makes GTA V so special is the way the characters react to the world around them vs how the world reacts to them. For example, in GTA when you switch to Franklin and he walked past an attractive female he responded “ damn you fine” or in Saints row you can run up in the pawn shop flash a gun and watch them respond by raising their hands in the air, or they press the silent alarm making you have to run away from the cops. Halo infinite doesn’t have those kind of moments that make you feel apart of the world it just feels like it’s there.
Trevor talking to random vegan npc: "You suck c*ck, but you don't eat meat.... It don't make sense to me "
Classic. Such a shame we won't get that humour again now that R* have gone all in on virtue.
AC Odyssey with the next gen patch is pretty incredible, especially if you like a sea shantie. Lol.
I’m back on an open world kick after Horizon. I don’t know what clicked in me but exploring the map and seeing the detail work has me loving open worlds again. Playing AC Odyssey on hard and really enjoying it and the map. Reinstalling RDR2 tonight because damn, that map is just incredible for sightseeing.
Halo Infinite felt off. It's like the developers didn't know what they really wanted to do
Depends on which open world titles u play, most of em are shitty AF, but I honestly admire open world genre, sometimes to just take a break from fighting and missions you explore n see details you haven't noticed before cause you were too busy body at first, then boom finding some dope equipment or things to sale
GF365: "Most games are not perfect and that may be because of a character or an enemy. Here are 10 mediocre bosses in great games."
The Pursuer from Dark Spuls 2 was great, I think the author just sucks at games.
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Alien isolation...ftw,it is definitely one of my top games,I played it again a few months ago ✌️
You do know Assassin's Creed was not the first game to use this style of gameplay right?
Stop whining people... basketball players are always compared to Michael Jordan and you don't hear sports analysts say "well MJ wasn't the FIRST basketball player"
COD, AC, GTA all get compared to FPS, 3rd person parkour/action, and open-world games that come out. It's not because they were the first, it's because they're the best in their genre and the most recognizable. You don't have to like COD, AC, or GTA but you have to understand that they are the Michael Jordan of their genre.
Saying they weren't the first just makes you look ignorant and whiny.
OT - pumped to play this at midnight tonight after I download it on my PS4 :)
Looking forward to picking this game up at Walmart Monday night (Tuesday morning) when I get off work at 3:30 AM. I wasn't sure if I was going to get it day one, but I'm going to be there picking up Forza Horizon 2 anyway, so what the hell. There's no way I'm going to be able to resist it when I see it just sitting there. I doubt I'll regret the purchase.
Preloaded and waiting on my xb1. Almost forgot about this game until the reviews popped up friday. Glad N4G was there to remind me. Now just to choose what to play first... forza or mordor.... add in destiny and driveclub and its a busy few weeks. LOVE THIS TIME OF YEAR!
You use one button to attack and one button to counter.
There is also some stealth mechanics but the similarities end there.
The combat in this game is far better than Assassins creed because the enemies actually come at you and if you counter you are not rewarded with an endless kill chain so in essence it has more in common with arkham than creed.
Enemies take multiple hits and the elite enemies can develop traits thanks to the Nemeis System which change the combat up like being invulnerable to stealth attacks, able to hit through counters, immune to melee or ranged attacks etc
The wraith powers really mix it up to.
I would not let anyone who is playing the game like assassins creed dissuade your opinion of this game as it is very much its own beast.
The wraith powers