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They just pop up and you try as hard as you can to hit them before they hit you. There are no unique strategies needed to fight different enemies. The bigger they are, the more hits it will take to bring them down. Your villains will shoot at you or come hit you. And don’t expect enemies to be any more complex. Just walk toward something and start hacking away. There are no combos, you have no combat roll or evasion abilities, and there are no charge shots. The controls work well enough, but, as you’d imagine, there is no depth to them. There are a few powerups and other controls mapped to different keys, but these are your core controls. For far away enemies, hold the left trigger to go into first-person POV and aim your bow or magic staff. To finish him off, use Y for a slow and powerful final blow. Just tap that baby over and over until your enemy is almost dead. Other than moving, you’ll pretty much be hitting the X button (on the 360), which attacks. Moving and the camera are controlled by the left and right control sticks. You can play by yourself or with one friend via splitscreen, but the computer will control any characters you don’t, and it’s not always great at knowing what to do…or how to kill. Like the old Gauntlet games, it’s best played simultaneously, in this case with three people. Does the approach work? Well, kind of.Īt its core, War in the North is a cooperative multiplayer hack and slash game. More importantly though, it’s an attempt to bring back cooperative hack and slash gameplay with the added value of some light RPG and story elements. The Lord of the Rings: War in the North is an attempt to stretch out the fabric of Peter Jackson’s film trilogy by fabricating a massive, concurrent side quest onto it. Luckily, the series has a timeless feel to it and with the first half of a massive two-part Hobbit film headed for release in late 2012, the franchise is already beginning to heat up again. It helped redefine the fantasy genre, and it’s hard to believe that The Fellowship of the Ring is 10 years old now. Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy may be the best book-to-movie adaptations ever made.
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