10 Video Games With Amazing Bosses (Except The Last One)

Because Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor was obviously made to take advantage of the fandom for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, everybody expected it to be a simple cash-grab.

But by consulting JRR Tolkien experts, Peter Jackson, and working with Weta Workshop, Monolith Productions forged a brilliant action-adventure with phenomenal combat, incredible characterisation, and world-building richer than the Mines of Moria. Not only was Shadow of Mordor not the disaster we were all expecting, it was the best video game adaption of Tolkien's work.

Some would even regard this title perfect... until it balls everything up at the finish line. After smashing through Sauron's fearless captains and The Great White Fang, you find The Dark Lord's most powerful general, The Black Hand.

Since Sauron is among the most famous villains in all literature, fighting The Black Hand is the closest you get to battling the ruler of Mordor himself.

But if you thought it was anticlimactic when Sauron died in the film after losing a finger, what Shadow of Mordor does is even worse. Similar to the boss battles in Batman: Arkham Asylum, most of the fight revolves around pummelling The Black Hand's lackeys, rather than facing Sauron's emissary one-on-one.

When The Black Hand enters the fray, he is vanquished after a 30-second quick-time event! Considering this guy was Sauron's top dog, it's bafflingly how insultingly simple he was to defeat.