Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™

The Eltariel DLC fixes all of the problems the base game had as far as pacing, grinding and bloat are concerned.

This game and the prequel have one of the best procedural generation of "side story" I've ever seen, It's extremely subtle and can be super exciting.

Combat is 10/10 for me, difficulty mostly depends on enemy skills and how the procedural generation developed them.

Also it can become very trivial and easy as you progress in terms of grinding and unlocking powerful skills and weapons, but this is very easily fixed by changing the difficulty, I recommend raising the difficulty to Nemesis to keep the game challenging, not only does it make combat less trivial and easy, it makes the nemesis mechanic more important.

Graphics and visuals are very well made and game is well optimized.

There are plenty of different builds to experiment with, allowing you to tailor Talion’s abilities to your preferred playstyle, stealth assassin, brutal warrior, crowd controller, or something in between.