Downloaded the demo, played it for a few mins this morning.
I started out with the training, which was actually decent. The game is super simple, like battlefront. Choose a class, take over control points, fight bad guys, rinse, repeat. I kinda enjoyed the LotR aspect of it though. Course, at the end of the training you have to fight Sauron which is a bit ridiculous. 1 hit knocks you down. One more hit sends you flying. He didn't kill me but it was annoying just trying to take him down as it seems no matter what I do or if I'm attacking him he WILL knock you down.
Really, other than the control points this feels alot like the LotR games from the previous generation consoles...
Then I "played" multiplayer...
This sucks. It's HORRIBLY unbalanced. There's a character class that can turn invisible and kill you in 1 shot from behind...well, that's pretty much what half the people do. The other half are archers who somehow can run backwards while firing at you as fast as you can run forward, and they shoot arrows that slow you down to add to the fun. I joined into a game with a bunch of archers on the opposing team who somehow got up on some crosswalk and all our team did for half the match was run back and forth trying to dodge arrows...
It's just hairbrained, there's no teamwork and really other than "take that control point" there wasn't alot to do.
This will probably be a game I skip completely.
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