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Santa Monica lost all my grace when I discovered in the game a skill tutorial "Death from Above" and that I strictly remember was the hall mark of "Middle Earth - Shadow of Mordor". Santa Monica thought that people might have forgottton about that game and we have a chance to gather few gems from that mightest title of the year 2012. which also happened to be the GOTY. Now this is disgraceful. For a highly hyped game, you are copying ideas from another masterpiece instead of crafting your own!. Plus when I paid attention, the music intrument too is exactly the same which was in the background music of Shadow of mordor, Of Course one would always crave to make titles which came out of no where (Unlike GOW which has developed grounds for pre-hyped anticipation) and made amass players fall in love with it's fight mechanics and combat systems. Speaking of fighting mechanics, Let me emphasize first that this is a 2022 title, The developers should strive to impress the audience, not some average combat mechanics which are only made cinametically impressive with button pressings i.e. O, R1, L1, L1+R1 etc. because they couldn't craft such mechanics into skill-based combat so they made it fixed like a movie, that's completely not fine. I urge every GOW fan to at least play a full gamethrough of a 2007's Dark Sector, and you will forget the Kratos Axe, and admire the fighing mechanics it offers ( Provided you like skill based combat as opposed to pre-fetched combat scenes). Anyway, I wanted to enlighten the GOW fans that it's developers are cherry-picking ideas from another massively successful title, but still didn't manage to surpass or even give us at it's par combat system which we could really enjoy. * And for a true gamer, which isn't really interested in a dull story line, they should have given the option to ski the cinametics, Seriously?, we have had far better stories to watch out there, it's a waste of time, watching a dull movie, which can't be skipped in it's fresh experience ( I know once you finish the game, you can skip in the Game+, but why not at our will) ** Wolfs: As far as I remember, In the first game, we have been slaying wolves, and all of a sudden here we see "The Boy" has a wolf pet, which as it dies, attempts to give a grieving touch to it. Hey? if you want to make it emotional, better make a attached character from the last episode die instead of a new "Wolf" which came out of no where, I didn't care even a little about it. Overall, there are far better games out there to play and have fun with, and at most this is going to be a one-time playthrough for me, unlike some other games out there, where gameplay never gets old!.

Having Played 900+ Hours in Tekken 7, I wanted to change, KOF series has been part of my attention during my childhood, especially in the KOF 96 to 98 Era, Although in my books, I awarded the crown to Tekken 7, yet in its own category, KOF XV Shines in some areas and fades in the others, Athena's appearance is elegant, Looking at Clark and Terry!!!!!! OMG, they were far more elegant in KOF 96 to 2002 titles. They need to be re-modeled. The size of the game is enormous, Having all of the Arcade games libraries on Mame Emulator on my PC takes up to under 20Gigs, this game alone requires 65+GB of Space. Leaving all the complaints aside. This game is enjoyable if given some time and learning. I haven't experienced Online yet. I seriously fear the lagging servers. But if they are at least as good as Tekken 7 Servers, then I'm happy. If your wallet won't hurt, you may get it now @ $28.00 on XBox, else wait for it to drop at $10.00, and then you may secure a copy of your own.

Having Played 900+ Hours in Tekken 7, I wanted to change, KOF series has been part of my attention during my childhood, especially in the KOF 96 to 98 Era, Although in my books, I awarded the crown to Tekken 7, yet in its own category, KOF XV Shines in some areas and fades in the others, Athena's appearance is elegant, Looking at Clark and Terry!!!!!! OMG, they were far more elegant in KOF 96 to 2002 titles. They need to be re-modeled. The size of the game is enormous, Having all of the Arcade games libraries on Mame Emulator on my PC takes up to under 20Gigs, this game alone requires 65+GB of Space. Leaving all the complaints aside. This game is enjoyable if given some time and learning. I haven't experienced Online yet. I seriously fear the lagging servers. But if they are at least as good as Tekken 7 Servers, then I'm happy. If your wallet won't hurt, you may get it now @ $28.00 on Steam, else wait for it to drop at $10.00 and then you may secure a copy of your own.

Enjoyment Level: Variable/Very good on ave Game play:9 Graphics:9.5 Design: 8 It`s a fact SOM has made quite a leap in terms of graphics and has introduced many admirable combat mechanics which are must to enjoy the game yet we could n`t expect them from tiny minds at Ubisoft who are milking the same old cow by dressing it every time with a new costume, & their CG movies are always jaw dropping but they could n`t forge a similar character in-game. And lo! Monolith has done it. The body proportion, looks, everything is so killing except for environment which is almost same throughout. Here`re my mixed thoughts on it. PROS: it`s not been long since I started playing this game, So far only have acquired tier 4 skills. Was much curious between the sky-high claims by some and critics by others which made it sound a plain dead game. Could n`t believe anything unless I played myself. Also I was bothered by the claims that it resembles AC in many ways, Since i have also played AC black-F twice, i`d say Assassin C won`t even is a shadow of this Shadows of M. Animations: In AC: I was hating the way Edward would kind of act like he is wiping his chin with no innovative body profile animation whatsoever while the game was loading. SOM contains every very mature animation we expect from the AAA game to have and none of them are stupid like in case of AC. Did u notice how unrealistic it looks when Edwards` ship arrives Havana, and how incredible it is to have such next gen environment. I am playing it @1080P with most settings low except for textures and lightning & it still looks way more gorgeous than AC would do at highest. FYI: i am a fan boy to none, i only try to derive the old experience from current gen games, and mostly i find current gen games hollow compared to games i used to play many years ago. As far as copying animations from AC would concern, Not a big deal, Many great games borrowed good values from older and they shined even brighter. i.e Uncharted series took from Tomb raider, Gears of war etc, and was a remarkable game, wasn`t it? So by the fear that soon Shadows of Mordor would attract AC fan boys attention, folks would do such blames but won`t get anything. CONS: I don`t know, I am completely into it and not getting bored no matter what. However I would do a little complain that while killing Chiefs number of enemies are uncontrollable, I am not dealt with one & three others would attack at the same time while i am doing a finishing move, which is very annoying. It should be like it`s in Darksiders where you won`t be disturbed by others while you are slaying a critical foe. There are number of glitches, control freezes, and other concerns but they are rare and are covered by the great enjoyment value of this game. Giving 10 to balance unfair score.

1. The graphics engine is poorly optimized, hence EA had to lock the game at 30 fps 2. The driving mechanics are aweful, (NFS 2012, HP 2010 are rocking), i though crieterions are involved so it`d be great but it`s total waste of money. 3. Graphics are a step backward from nfs 2012 which at least gives you a modern look of cities, while rivals is opposite, despite a dx11 game, it still is a thumb down when comparing graphics with nfs hp 2010 4. AI is stupid, no matter how much upgrades you apply, or how long you master the skill, you can`t anticipate if you would win? ( a little exagerated but, this is like it) those of you who hasn`t bought it, dont

First of all, I`ve been a big fan n expert racer on all good nfs games. I couldn`t bear comments from some ugly fan guys giving this game high rating. One of them says it`s similar to MOST WANTED 2012. I would say this does`t even touch foot of MW-2012. or HOT PURSUIT 2010 or BURNOUT PARADISE U Box. I realize that i did a little injustice by giving 4 but as it does n`t come under the flag of worth playing then i guess it does n`t matter. I was annoyed when i tried to change settings during a race and it din`t pass my race and by the time i was done with settings, i wan`t at point where i left it. huh, lost it. I anxiously waited but got desperately disappointed.

Well, i suppose it will be insulting not to review this game, only for this i ve joined metacritics. In my opinion this is a masterpiece which have't got reputation it deserves. Have finished this on brutal more than thrice. Yet i say it still is inviting after a couple of gap days. My taste is hard to satisfy, i ve only liked much, and this has done it, On my ps3 this looks totally crap, so i strongly suggest to play this on PC at 1080p standard. Finally i will say, "You have missed one hell **** if you have;t played Dark Sector" i desperatly am looking forward to sequel.