The game is based on the events taking place in the northern regions of Middle-earth. Players will take control of a hero of the war, and will be able to play through the game alone or cooperatively with other players.
GenreRole-Playing
Platforms ps3
DEVELOPER Snowblind Studios | PUBLISHER Codemasters | RELEASE DATE
Lord of the Rings: War in the North Reviews ps3
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worthplaying.com review
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North is a fun but flawed experience. From a technical standpoint, it has good graphics and sound, but there nothing about it is utterly amazing. From a gameplay standpoint, the action is great, but the rather lengthy adventure begins to get a bit stale because of the lack of real enemy diversity and the flow from combat to exploration to combat. While there could be some more depth to the RPG aspect, the game works and the addictive loot system keeps it engaging. Save for a few issues, co-op with the AI is quite good, and the whole thing improves when actual people are playing alongside you. With the deluge of big titles almost coming to a head, War in the North may get lost in the crowd, but if you’re a fan of hack-n-slash gameplay with some substance, you’ll be greatly satisfied with this title.
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psu.com review
War in the North technically has RPG elements, but this is really a combat-heavy game, meaning about 80-90 percent of your in-game activities involve slaying hordes of orcs, trolls, goblins, spiders, and other creepers. The combat is generally simplistic. The ranger is better at – you guessed it – ranged combat, while the champion is best throwing around his two-handed axe in the heat of battle. The magic user has some helpful spells, including the ability to provide protective cover from incoming arrows or bolts. There is a basic system to chain attacks together that lead to a bloody takedown. It feels great to finally see the head of an orc lopped off, or a goblin’s legs ripped apart. Yes, this is a .
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1up.com review
Sadly, there is a lingering shadow looming over the land of Mordor. The regular feeding of rewards doesn’t quite make up for the fact that the game tends to recycle enemy types a bit too often. With a lore so full of distinct creatures, there’s really no excuse for the relatively meager variety of obstacles that your Fellowship combats along the journey. It’s also worth noting that the game is peppered with non-combat areas that allow you explore familiar locales such as Bree and Rivendell. Although the geography seems accurate, a lack of inhabitants within makes each place feel completely devoid of life. Maybe all the Elves had already packed up and headed out west, but wandering around a nearly empty Rivendell just feels kind of silly. And though dialogue trees do exist when you come across a rare denizen of Middle-earth, your vocal decisions never impact the story or your own personal morality. Had the towns been bulked up and the dialogue been given another pass, this could have been the most fully realized version of Tolkien’s landscape ever presented on a console.
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pcworld.com review
All in all, War in the North is a perfectly competent beat-’em-RPG, even if it doesn’t do much to carve out its own niche in the Lord of the Rings universe. Its strength and weakness is that it’s completely inoffensive — the perfect middle-of-the-road game. Unfortunately, it’s hard to see what helps differentiate War of the North from the pack, and the pack is where it’s apt to stay.
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gamerevolution.com review
Whatever caused that problem is a mystery; it could have just been a freak occurrence, it could have been something related only to my review platform (PS3). But regardless of how and why it happened, a glitch as serious as that is a big no-no when you hand a game to a reviewer. It’s enough to dock points on what would otherwise be a solid ‘B’ game.
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gamechronicles.com review
If you’re a diehard fan of Lord of the Rings and just have to have everything then War in the North will tide you over nicely till The Hobbit finally hits theatres. For anyone else, it’s a competent rendition of an action RPG and worth the look if you’re done with Skyrim, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to play this.
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