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Developer: Monolith Productions
Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Game Details: Fight your way through Mordor and reveal the truth of the spirit that compels you, discover the
Fight your way through Mordor and reveal the truth of the spirit that compels you, discover the origins of the Rings of Power, build your legend and ultimately confront the evil of Sauron in this new story of Middle-earth.
Developer: Monolith Productions
Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Genre(s): Fantasy Action Adventure Fantasy Open-World
Number of players: No Online Multiplayer
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Critic Reviews
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84
Metascore Generally favorable reviews
77 Positive Ratings 90%
8 Mixed Ratings 9%
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Guardian
Oct 7, 2014
"Right now, it’s my main contender for game of the year, simply because, in its lack of pretension, its attention to detail and its understanding that video games first and foremost should be fun, it puts everything else I’ve played recently in its long shadow." ... Read full review
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Digital Chumps
Sep 28, 2014
"A beautiful third-person action title that has deep role-playing game elements embedded firmly into it. You also get enormously detailed and deep environments, with unique enemies to populate it. This is simply a superb game. " ... Read full review
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CalmDownTom
Oct 14, 2014
"While there are a limited number of genuinely memorable landmarks in the world of Mordor, the real points of interest is the captains being hunted. " ... Read full review
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Pelit (Finland)
Oct 25, 2014
"Despite the dark setup, Shadow of Mordor doesn’t offer any surprises. It’s a solid action-adventure spiced up with some RPG elements and a familiar license. As far as the license games go, Talion’s trek is well executed mesh of Arkham games and Assassin’s Creed. You could do a lot worse. [Oct 2014] "
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Playstation Official Magazine UK
Nov 16, 2014
"It could do with a little more polish, but Mordor is still one of this year's better surprises. [Dec 2014, p.88]"
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Level7.nu
Oct 7, 2014
"Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor remixes influences from both the Batman: Arkham and Assassin's Creed-series together with it's own ideas and the result is the best Lord of the Rings game so far. The story may not carry all the way but this is a violent, intelligent and varied action game that rewards creativity and strategy from the player." ... Read full review
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Destructoid
Sep 25, 2014
"Ultimately, like many ambitious projects, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor doesn't deliver on everything it sets out to do." ... Read full review
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472 Mixed Ratings 17%
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Ondopher
Sep 30, 2014
With some issues aside, which I hope will be patched soon, the game stands to its hype. Extremely fun combat, with awesome visuals and not toWith some issues aside, which I hope will be patched soon, the game stands to its hype. Extremely fun combat, with awesome visuals and not to mention the much loved world setting of Middle-earth, which I'm sure even non-Tolkien fans will rejoice. This is a RPG that I cannot wait to delve further into.… Expand
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Nycore
Sep 12, 2017
Shadow of Mordor is the best Lord of the Rings out there. The game is amazing period. The nemesys sistem is out of the change, the combat isShadow of Mordor is the best Lord of the Rings out there. The game is amazing period. The nemesys sistem is out of the change, the combat is very satisfying like the arkham games and the art of the world is beautiful.… Expand
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OutDorJustice80
Sep 30, 2014
The developers did a great job right from the beginning. The sound quality is amazing, graphically wise it is good, but not great as it isThe developers did a great job right from the beginning. The sound quality is amazing, graphically wise it is good, but not great as it is multi platform and is a bit noticeable. However this does not take away from the experience whatsoever. They hit the mark with the gameplay. The nemesis system is truly groundbreaking, and I'm sure other developers will take note of this. Even if you don't know all or even some of the lore of LOTR you won't be disappointed. This might not be a GOTY, but it is a contender.… Expand
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MiguelNeto
Nov 14, 2016
acredito que todo fã de Senhor dos Aneis e Hobbit como eu irá gostar muito do game, Shadow of Mordor realmente tem problemas, como o mapa naoacredito que todo fã de Senhor dos Aneis e Hobbit como eu irá gostar muito do game, Shadow of Mordor realmente tem problemas, como o mapa nao ser tao detalhado, e ter missões muito repetitivas, tendo que fazer sempre a mesma coisa, oque muda é numero de inimigos, mais o grafico é lindo, quem conhece o universo que o Tolkien criou vai adorar, sem falar que da pra ver historias dos monstros e lugares da Terra-Media, Shadow of Mordor é muito bom, mesmo com muitos problemas, é um jogo obrigatorio pros fás dos livros e filmes do Senhor dos Aneis e O Hobbit. Nota 8.5… Expand
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denied1
Nov 29, 2021
As much entarteining smacking orcs is, it does get repetative......final battle is bothing special either
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tekshow
Nov 2, 2014
The journey to Mordor is a solid game, one built on the foundation of games like Assassin's Creed and Batman. That's not a figurative commentThe journey to Mordor is a solid game, one built on the foundation of games like Assassin's Creed and Batman. That's not a figurative comment either, it literally steals pieces of those games like the climbing from AC and the combat directly lifted from Batman. That isn't a bad thing, even though WB games might get into some hot water from it legally. If you enjoy the AC series or the Batman Arkham games then Mordor will be right up your alley whether you're into the LOTR franchise or not.

That's where I found myself, I like Orcs, Dwarves and Rings as much as the next guy, but fantasy has never been my favorite genre. I'd rather have light sabers and laser beams like Mass Effect or Fallout 3.

Mordor does what it does well, a great quote "If you steal from one person you're a thief, if you steal from many you're a genius." Bruce Lee subscribed to this philosophy and apparently so does WB Montreal. It not only borrows all these facets of Batman and AC, but it IMPROVES on them.

The stealth component gives you more combat options than the big Bat. There's very deft range methods that keeps expanding the gameplay for the duration. There's a huge upgradeable skill tree that will take the longest playthrough ever, or if you beat Mordor in the typical time (about 20 hours) you'll barely be able to open up some of the most impressive skills.

That's all without talking about the nemesis system, which takes every underling and mini-boss from the game and turns them into a living breathing chess piece. Any grunt orc that kills you will begin moving up the Orc ladder. If any Captain or Warchief kills you his notoriety will increase, and so will his power, making him even tougher during the next encounter. Eventually you get the power to brand Orcs with your mark, eventually stock piling nearby gruns to help you take down the Chieftains. After that you quickly get the ability to brand even the warchiefs themselves and therein lies the best strategic idea behind Mordor: Do you brand the Warchief directly, or install fraudulent bodyguards that can help you remove him from his pedestal? Nearly always I found it easier to bring in my Orc trator bodyguards and do the job with me. Then ultimately the most powerful bodyguard takes the recently felled warchiefs place on the hierarchy map.

So it sounds all good right? Beautiful combat backed by two great franchises WB worked on, a good solid graphics engine, new upgrades to the formula and a huge skill tree to fill out.... and you know it's coming, there's a "but" in here.

Mordor stumbles slightly for a number of reasons, and some of it hinges on the gameplay and Nemesis ideas. There's always been flaws in ACs gameplay and while not massive some of that is still there. I will say that Tailion can grab a ladder or a ledge almost better than anyone in AC, I never felt like he did the wrong thing at the wrong time because of the game. If I blew a counter or jumped off the wrong ledge it always felt like user error, the way it should be.

It seems that WB was making another game, speculation is an open world Batman game. That might very well be true, but since Arkham Knight is on the way out and is open world the rumor is it was scrapped. WB has made a very well crafted game here, and it's plenty enjoyable, it got me to trudge through blood stained Orcs and the sprawling countryside of Mordor for about 30 hours.

The story is completely bare bones. Wife dies, get revenge, live with a ghots, kill Sauron, the end. There's a few cutscenes sprinkled in there, but it's pretty negligible even for LOTR fans. This game is all about the combat, and some times that's just not that exciting. The world is pretty bland with just two main areas, and strongholds of Orcs littered about. In fact, if you don't spend some hours swinging your sword killing and doing side quests you won't level up enough to have a powerful ranger. I almost completely ignored the main quests of the game for the first 20 hours and just leveled up. The main campaign is almost non stop fighting and often for no reason.

Not to be too harsh, but it almost felt like a LOTR Dynasty Warriors game for the bulk of it.

Finally the Nemesis system isn't as polished as it should be. I died at the hands of Orc captains or higher maybe 2 times during my entire playthrough. Mostly that's because I wasn't afraid to run away, combat in war is about survival and my feet would carry me out of danger. I'd hide for a bit and then exploit a major weakness. Other times I was near death and ran straight to the nearest underling for a quick death. It meant the bottom man on the totem poll got ranked a bit, but I avoided having the super elite Warchief grow in power. You also have a last chance move that saves your neck long enough to get out of most situations.

Mordor boils down to a hack and slash game. It's Batman, but 100% combat focussed. Depending on your mood that might not be a bad thing, I spent 30 hours there. Solid 7.… Expand
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NemesisBruh
Feb 7, 2021
Imagine patenting the nemesis system, despite your game being an Assassin's Creed re-skin. Not to mention that nemesis system itself existedImagine patenting the nemesis system, despite your game being an Assassin's Creed re-skin. Not to mention that nemesis system itself existed long before this game. The industry is built on innovating existing ideas. Everything is inspired by something that came before it. That's how games, art, music, writing, culture itself and everything else works. Patenting the nemesis system is like patenting a color blue, or like patenting an the idea of a powerful corrupting item in storytelling. WB Games needs to back down on this.… Expand
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