Initially, this means using a combination of stealth and melee combat to assassinate low-ranking Uruk captains within Sauron's swelling ranks. Now sharing a physical body with the Elvish Wraith Celebrimbor, and with naught but revenge on both their minds, Talion is set upon stirring trouble behind enemy lines. When the Ranger Talion and his family are slaughtered by uruks under Sauron's command at the Black Gate, he is resurrected and his body bound to wander Mordor, the wretched region home to orcs and uruks where the very air, thick with ash and sulphur, chokes the life from lesser mortals. Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor, however, begins where most other Lord of the Rings games meet their end. Far from getting there and back again, most games set in Middle-earth fall before they've even left The Shire. There have been many attempts, from the ZX Spectrum text adventure The Hobbit to endless film tie-ins, but none have quite recreated the spectacle of steel sparking steel, nor the smell of blood and dirt and sweat-through leather in your nostrils as an orchestra swells triumphantly at your back and you charge valiantly towards almost certain destruction. The controls can get a little strange at times, but I used a controller on PC, so that might be on my end.A splinter of procedural creativity keeps this derivative open-worlder feeling fresh.ĭespite a myriad of sources to draw from, few games have brought Tolkien's Middle-earth to life. Every gameplace is different, so there is endless replay value. Killing Orcs can become fun, especially when you wind up being killed and need to be resurrected again, only to find that everyone has been replaced by random Orcs. Remember Aragorn cutting heads and arms off right and left? It's as bloody as that. They made Talion's family being murdered PG-13 (the camera is angled so you don't actually see anything). It's not as good as the original Lord of the Rings films, but darn close.
It wants to be Howard Shore and the theme of Lord of the Rings, and barely gets to the level of The Hobbit's soundtrack. And you can hunt down specific Orcs with specific strength and weaknesses - which you learn via intelligence gathered from other Orcs. It gets complicated and fun.Īs you game the system of Orc society, you can interrupt duels and raids and cause general mayhem along the ranks of darkness. If you brand a captain, he and all of his minions will come to your aid when you call. If you brand a foot soldier, he can come to your aid. Basically, if an Orc kills you, he gets a name (if he doesn't have one already), goes up in power, and a promotion, and he can be targeted for revenge if you decide to.Īlong the way, in the second act, Talion is able to brand Orcs. There is a part of gameplay called the Nemesis system. It's simple, it's straightforward, and it's generally just easy. Only with arrows and knives instead of baterangs. Think of this as Batman: Arkham City, only with swords. Now, Talion is on a quest to stop the hordes of Sauron from running rampant over the land of Mordor by killing the Black Hand - the highest rank of Sauron's army. The Orcs slaughtered Talion's family and killed him.īut a wraith from the first age has possessed Talion, and he cannot die.or, more precisely, he cannot stay dead. The Ranger Captain Talion was stationed at the Black Gate of Mordor with his family when the Orcs came. Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor - the one game to rule them all?
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