Hey guys, be sure to check out Il Neige's channel in the description; he's helped out a ton over the years and dangit; he needs more subs! I highly recommend his DragonBall Evolution review :)

Wow. that Orc rap... A+

Since these games have proven that Lotr games are quite popular, I'd love it if we got a remake (or at least a Steam release) of the Battle for Middle Earth games. I absolutely adore them.

I *COMPLETELY* agree with you, Suspect! We *NEED* a Skyrim-esque Middle-Earth game!

I got this notification while I was watching your Spiderman 1-3 review.

update: the dlc does indeed expand on Baranor and Eltarial characters and stories, the post sauron fight siege repulsions are fewer then they were at launch and the micro transactions have been removed

I think the length of the Shadow Wars demonstrates the length of time Talion fought off Sauron's army after the big plot thing at the end of Act III.

Unexpected Suspect review is a good gift.

Yes. A new video from one of the best KZfaqrs on the planet

You’re amazing, I love your reviews they always brighten up my day!

He is alive holy shit

This is why I always keep coming back to your channel. Your hilarious but give great criticism your the best keep being amazing man

You can upgrade legendary gear, but I agree there's no reason to buy it. As for your lack of using some of the skills, you don't just poison grog barrels and wait for them to drink from it, for example, you use tendril and then shoot the barrel to produce bale fire, an aoe damage effect, and so on with the other "useless" kills. Although I do agree about the free loot pickup. Good video.

I had a few times where the counter button didn’t register so you’re not alone. As well as the brand targeting being difficult.

15:42 This is easily one of the most cleaver raps, I've seen in recent years. Man I fucking wish I was more clever when is comes to writing song.

Baranor's later-released DLC was actually really fun. Recommended if you haven't played it.

That orc rap was marvelous! Awesome haha made my laugh.

6:03 I don't know, I've heard a few conversations like that here and there, it gets pretty strange at the local pub

Present post for anyone watching this video; the store was taken out of the game and there is no microtransactions at all, so im gonna go ahead and give this game a 9/10

YOU SHALL NOT DISLIKE THIS VIDEO!

Couldn't care less what people say I love this game one of my favourite games and great review thought and all the criticisms are completely valid

Dude, can't possibly agree more. Everything you said, nailed it. I'm currently on the Shadow Wars section and.... yeah, I'm about to give it up and watch the ending online. I've had 6 games for christmas and I've only played 2 because I'm out of data and I want to beat this before deleting it off of the ps4, but I think I've gone far enough. Now lets get to Horizon Zero Dawn.

It's The Two Towers 15th Anniversary 2002-2017!

Dude, I swear to God, every time you upload it makes my day! Keep up the great work!

Please review the Lego LOTR and Hobbit games. Please?

Always love seeing your videos! I’m so happy that you continue to put out more videos that have top quality. You are awesome!

By far my favorite youtube channel! Loved this video as always!

Amazing content again, thank you ross.

As someone obsessed with lord of the rings as a kid an orc killing simulator is all I’ve ever wanted

I was not remotely confident in your ability to do a pokeorc rap. But gdi, you convinced me.

Auto item pickup was incredibly useful and made the game flow and if you never had to use the pin ability then you're a very lucky guy and I'm jealous as anything lol

That pokeoark rap was sick.

This is the best review of this game on youtube! Great great work!

I agreed with you. Except on the ability part. The pinning is used agains orc who run. The throwing knives to build up your hit-counter. The poisening grog is used to get the poisonous fire. However you will only need these if you play on highest difficulty (Which I recommend) Because you'll need actual planning with your abilities and the enemies weakness. Plus you'll most likely die a couple of times. Which creates cool stories

You may have heard of one like me That prances, dances and sings with glee Wherever the strife, the Singer is there He slaughters and slays with such merry flair I sing this song with all my breath Take heed, for this interlude ends with your death

Please review the 70s Rankin Bass version of The Hobbit.

Just played through it, and I frankly lost my collective s..t when they introduced an orc necromancer... and he is a tougher enemy than the bloody Balrog. Otherwise I agree with most of what you say here. For me Shadow has the same problem as many other open world games - it is way too big for the content it has which makes it quite repetitive.

A mature rated, open world, action RPG, set in Middle Earth, where you choose your race ( each with a unique storyline, side quests, activities, weapons, and armor.)has been a dream of mine since the first movie trilogy in the early 2000's. Game Devs would have a MASSIVE HIT if they do it right.

The Poke-orcs rap was fucking awesome!

Okay, the Urukrap was worth the watch.

I encountered two different Ologs named As-Ranz The Grog-Maker at once, one of which came all the way from another region just to kick my ass for killing his blood brother. They said the exact same thing about making Grog.

XD PokeOrcs. I love it.

I want that Pokeorcs for my alarm!

This video is worth watching just for the Pokeorcs rap.

For the counter input problem, you're not the only one pal and I have the opposite problem with draining, 9 times out of 10 the dominate would not trigger, that's really frustrating.

Good to see you back Suspect 👍🏻

Love the new structure mate, looks great!

I actually started with war and it’s one of my favorite games ever

I had to pause the vid and google Alistair...i knew I recognized his voice! He played Kain in The Legacy of Kain:Defiance...part of me wants them to remaster those games or continue the story, but...we all know how that would get screwed up

The best KZfaqr on KZfaq you are awesome man

Sweet, wasn't expecting a video from you about this game! Finally gave me a final verdict about this game. Angry Joe helped me see what the game was about, but his emphasis on microtransactions and silly skits really took away from his overall video, and I ended up not getting up much out of it. With this review, you've successfully covered every inch of this game, from it's few pros, to it's *many* glaring flaws, and *everything* in-between. Really let me know that the game really is nothing more than the first game, but bigger and *slightly* better in some small areas. Thank you!! (Just wanted to go into my personal thoughts on the first game in the next paragraphs, feel free to skip reading it all.) I played and beat the original Shadow of Mordor earlier this year, and I can definitely say all the hype behind it from it's release in '014 was entirely unfounded, and a load of crap, at least in my opinion. Many of the issues stated in this games review also hold over to the original (boring, *boring* collectibles with imaginary "depth", lackluster protag, meh storyline with some interesting things done with lore, and the main goal of running everywhere, killing orcs over and over, doing a quick objective that's rather mundane, and so on.) The combat, while fun, got really stale about 5 hours in for me personally. I played the *hell* out of all the Arkham games, with Origins being my favorite, with Knight close behind it. With that said, I *really* got into their combat systems to a point of being a really hardcore challenge mode perfectionist (getting highest scores I could in the arena-like challenge modes in those games where you fight hordes of goons. *TONS* of fun, even today.) The combat upgrades in those games always felt like sweet rewards to leveling up, but not *one* of them made you feel overpowered, as without the skills necessary to play at-least competently in-combat, you might as well have zero upgrades. But in Shadow of Mordor? By the time you get to even half-way down the skill tree, you're downright a *god* , and are basically un-killable unless you drop the controller for a couple minutes. From the very beginning of the game (I shit you not, dead honest) I was getting 100+ combo's without trying whatsoever. The kill animations, while *really* badass and many of them being "better" and a fair bit more flashy than most of the Arkham's knockout-animations, got really boring to "pull off" after 10-ish hours of playing the game, while the Arkham games never had this issue. Combat just got really boring and played out overall (I was thinking "great, another mindless army of orcs to mass slaughter..." every time I started combat after playing the game at about the 10-ish hour mark.) The story in it while good, held no real surprises, and it just felt like the devs were just doing whatever they wanted with the lore bits they went with, and did whatever with everything else. Tolkien would definitely be rolling in his grave, especially when talking/thinking of Shadow of War in this regard. It was definitely no higher than a 7 at most, and that's probably being too nice with it.

I completely agree with the collectible rant. While I rate games based off their replayability/lasting appeal/bonus content, I find collectibles to typically be a lazy way to increase the play time in a game.

Baranor and the Haradrim get their due in the DLC "Desolation of Mordor", don't worry.

I'm pretty sure that SOM and SOW have move queuing so if you start a wraith flurry, for example, you have to complete the action before you can counter. I've experienced the same thing, but learned that rolling backwards can cancel most moves.

im crying, suspect uploaded a new video.

The thing is they further fuck with canon for no good reason, it doesn't improve the game or the story. Sometimes it seems the changes are only there so they can namedrop characters like Isildur or show Ar-Pharazon in a cutscene. The change to Shelob is just bizarre and also actually boring. They could've had us deal with a terrifying spider-demon, but we got a generic seductress instead.

I will defend shadow of war and mordor till I die but the points you make I can completely understand

@ 3:09 What didn't bother you suspect? That the Rancor could be Chaning Tatum? :). Great review by the way.

Your summery makes me want to go load up Lord of the Rings Online again. I know it’s dated, but get to explore Middle Earth

yeeeeeesssssssss new Unusual suspect video, great early Christmas present : ))))))

Hello there suspect;i was just wondering if you would consider a review of the bf2 campaign? I would like to hear your opinion

Great video Suspect! I knew you were going to do shadow of war because I saw you play it on your Xbox when I checked your account

XDD loved the Pokéorcs rap!!

From what I've heard, Shelob is a shapeshifter so maybe that explains the changes.

Suspect this is the first game review where I actually agree with you on everything you said

Yeah I agree with the counter button issue that has happened to me when I’m fighting orcs and always gets me near death aswell same with the draining ability.

0:40 It's a small loan of a million dollars

Looking forward to that TV series!

Hey Suspect! I've got great news for you man! :D There IS an RPG set in Middle Earth where you get to choose your race, customize your character and travel the entire world of Tolkien, visiting every tree and building and every place you like from Shire all the way to Mordor and even the countries that never appear anywhere in the books but in brief mentions or Silmarillion legends. The game, unfortunately, is an MMO-RPG, not a solo game, so yeah, it is better to play with friends as the feeling is much better, but playing it for yourself and joining an active clan is also rewarding and fun. It is also completely free, even with a possibility to earn in-game currency that allows to unlock special features without having to pay for it with a very efficient way. The game is called Lord of the Rings online, I highly recommend the game. It's got some absolutely amazing visuals (although it's not THAT young) fantastic music and dialogues, and most importantly, very player friendly and fun to play mechanics and it's all happening in Middle Earth, and you can meet a familiar character and a place on every corner. It's also got one of the best communities I've seen in any MMO, with plenty of people happy to help you with anything, because honestly everyone just plays this game for fun, nostalgia or a rewarding multiplayer experience. Go check it out Suspect! Who knows maybe your dream already came true and you just didn't know about it :)

Loved the video once again Suspect!

3:00 That'd be like a Harry Potter prequel movie where Nagini turned out to actually be an asian woman...oh wait..

Shelob is the daughter of Ungoliant, who chose to look like a spider its not her true form just the form she wanted. Shelob is no different

Great stuff, really enjoyed the review.

Holy shit. Iv been watching you for years and you’ve had a ps4 for all that time. Now you have an Xbox one. Congrats for joining the better side of the consul war

The game was extended longer, like a paywall, in order for you to buy Microtranscations to speed it up. So your point of saying the Microtransactions are pointless, not really, they designed the game around this.

Hey suspect I was wondering if you could give your thoughts on star wars battlefront 2

Brilliant video!

Steve Blum and others are amazing Nemesis Uruks And other voice actors are amazing like Travis Willingham, John DiMaggio and other voice actors.

Baranor is by no means the first black character in the middle-earth franchise. I felt the same about the counters and draining, as the for stealth mechanics Talion is wearing a magic cloak.

Has my favourite brittish person once again released a video? Is the video released about a game, and is the game about a certain Tolkien related world? Yes? Then I shall put down my bagpipe and stop my futile attempt to stop the finnish invasion of my country to watch the video.

Given that they wrote Baranor to be 10 years old when we was left behind in Gondor, I can't imagine there was much to talk ab out by way of Haradrim culture and practices.

I am just watching the pokeorcs section on repeat...

Try Metal Gear Rising, see how threating Alistar Duncan is in that game ;)

Watched the entire video. And the thing I agree with... those stupidly long loading times. My only gripe with the game. But I totally get where the problems everyone has are. I just absolutely love the fact this and shadow of mordor are the only lord of the rings games of it's type.

Alright now I can tell I have a problem I have watched this video 15 times in the past 2 weeks

You deserve MORE attention ^_^

I don’t know how people don’t like this game. It’s amazing. The only shitty thing about it is that you can’t see your equipped gear in cutscenes, and the loot boxes suck ass.

I love this channel soooo much

i have played shadow of war for over 200 hrs and i like it

The micro transactions are now gone. And you can upgrade your favourite weapons.

110 for a new game here in Australia. highest is 99 at eb but the average at target and jb is 79 so pretty much the same as the us of a VERY NIIICCEEEEE

I wish the fortresses didn’t all look the same, or very similar. Each one should have been unique, but have Gondorian architecture.

You're not alone, I could swear I'd hit counter only to take a stumbling hit, making Talion look like a moron. I was wondering about what you thought of the pvp elements including attacking other player fortresses. There's also avenging missions where you can net some decent gear.

Great, now you have to upload the PokeOrc song!

I want them to make a game where you play as a custom maiar

The thing with this game that I hated was finding the objective in other locations like it says go to your quests but which one is for the main quest?

I was hoping for more enemies like haradrim, wargs and giant spiders and some more recognisable places like osgiliath p. Hoping they're going to bring out a game set in the Lord of the rings books. Like talion is going about some other stuff in other places

Do you have any plans to cut down on your remarkably edited segments in order to catch up with the sheer amount of games and movies coming out? I'm sure that those take quite some time to refine.

I'm from the future... They fixed the game significantly...

Pokeorcs was amazing