Combine the free-flowing fighting system from Batman: Arkham City with a whole bunch of elements from Assassin’s Creed, then dip the results in a Tolkien sauce and – voila – you have Middle-Earth – Shadow of Mordor. To be fair, the game doesn’t just strongly call to mind other games, it also adds some interesting twists of its own.… Read the rest
The Battle of the Five Armies is the last and the least of Peter Jackson’s six Middle-earth movies, but it is still pretty good. The element of surprise is long gone, the movie delivering just more of the same. The po-faced, serious dramatic scenes are on occasion more giggle-worthy here than I remember them being in previous entries.… Read the rest
Is it a good idea to take The Hobbit, a relatively simple story for children contained in a single, not especially thick book, and then to spin it into three epic, connecting movies? The answer from an economic perspective is, of course, “yes”.… Read the rest
