The style borrows much from the Windows and console game Skyrim, even if the character and landscape details don’t nearly measure up to its predecessor.īy contrast, the cut scenes are undeniably outstanding, as are the wonderful music and the professional voice actors. Graphically speaking, the caves, environments and characters with their muted tones are in stark contrast to the colorful Asian RPGs. Cut scenes at home in Hollywood, everything else rather tedious
You can quickly restore health and consumed magic energy, mana, with potions.ĭefeated opponents drop items and give experience points, which you apply to your character for leveling up in development and other improvements. You don’t rescue injured comrades with healing spells, but approach them and activate a rescue button. That can lead to spectactular attacks, for example, by climbing on a troll’s head and inflicting severe damage from that vantage point. Wounded creatures are finished off with critical hits. Instead, the player positions the camera accordingly, initiates a blow or ranged attack and escapes enemy attacks with rolls. In combat, you attack enemies in action style. Experience accumulated by another character is preserved and can be applied to all characters at the same game stage. In the course of the game, you can switch your character at any time. You can invite friends to a private game, host a public game or join a public game hosted by unknown players. The player has the choice of going into battle solo with computer-controlled companions or with human comrades-in-arms as allies. Magic spheres protect the group from arrows and hostile magic, heal the group and enhance the group effect of ranged weapons.Īs the human representative in the trio, the ranger Eradan can dual-wield and keep enemies at bay with a bow. The elf Andriel fires at enemies with magic attacks in ranged combat or switches to a staff for melée fighting. In addition, the dwarf has a crossbow on hand that can shoot projectiles that cause devastating explosions in the advanced portions of the game. The dwarf Farin is specialized in two-handed weapons, but can also combine one-handed swords and hammers with a shield and protect the group as a tank. The player selects one of the three main characters to play as in The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, and with that his personal gaming style. Action-packed gameplay and a solid co-op mode The level of difficulty is selectable, but the higher levels ' Heroic' and ' Legendary' are only unlocked after playing through the entire game several times. The famous film characters, however, contribute very little to the storyline. Along the way, you pass through Rivendell and meet familiar figures like Elrond, Gimli and Arwen. You make your way through dungeons, traverse mountains and search caves for valuable treasure in environments laid out in tube-like sections without any notable freedom of movement. Hostile orcs always show up the same way, in a predictable pre-defined pattern. There is no chapter selection option, but you can return to previously visited locations via designated waypoints marked on a world map. The three adventurers’ journey leads them through eight chapters in The Lord of the Rings: War in the North.
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