Status FlattenedBull Jul 31, 2018
So fun! Got to be so OP. Batman+Assasin’s Creed but with large scale orc killing. More environment variety would have been good, as well as more interesting lore—all the lore stayed pretty superficial.
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (2014)
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3.72 from 4527 ratings
11958 members have it in their collection · 417 playing now · 3561 backlogged · 999 wish listed
How long? Main story 21h · with extras 27h · 100% 31h (from 140 logged playthroughs)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is a open world third-person action role-playing video game developed by Monolith Productions and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, which takes place in the world of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium.
The game takes place in the 60-year gap between the events of Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings. It is a story of …
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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is a open world third-person action role-playing video game developed by Monolith Productions and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, which takes place in the world of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium.
The game takes place in the 60-year gap between the events of Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings. It is a story of revenge, slaughter, and mystery set entirely in Mordor, the Land of Shadows. At its center is Talion, an ordinary man who loses everything, including his mortal life.
The game is set in a fully open world, and features various role-playing game elements such as experience points and skills. There are various ways the player can complete their main objective. Aside from the main storyline, there are various side quests and random events the player can complete within Mordor.
The melee system is inspired by that of the Batman Arkham series. Getting into a good fighting rhythm, using both regular attacks and counter-attacks will improve the player's combo multiplier.
A unique feature of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is the Nemesis system. Every enemy in the game has their own name, rank, and memory. These enemies will continue to do their own jobs and tasks even when they're off screen. If the player does not kill an enemy in an encounter, this enemy will remember the player and change their tactics and conversations based on the encounter.
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Details
- Developers
- Monolith Productions
- Publishers
- WB Games
- Genres
- Adventure, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Role-playing (RPG)
- Themes
- Action, Fantasy, Open world, Stealth
- Franchises
- The Lord of the Rings
- Series
- Middle-earth
- Steam
- View on Steam
Release dates
- Sep 30, 2014 (North_America) PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, Xbox One
- Oct 03, 2014 (Europe) PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, Xbox One
- Oct 08, 2014 (Australia) PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, Xbox One
- Nov 18, 2014 (North_America) PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
- Nov 21, 2014 (Europe) PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
- Nov 26, 2014 (Australia) PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
- Dec 25, 2014 (Japan) PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
- Jul 30, 2015 (North_America) Linux
- Jul 30, 2015 (Worldwide) Linux, Mac
Also available on
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor - Legion Edition (2014) · PS3
Related
Bundled in
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor - Game of the Year Edition (May 2015) · MAC, PC, PS4, XONE
DLC
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor - Lord of the Hunt (Dec 2014) · LIN, MAC, PC, PS3, PS4, X360, XONE
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor - The Bright Lord (Feb 2015) · LIN, MAC, PC, PS3, PS4, X360, XONE
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Rating distribution
5 stars
819
4 stars
2016
3 stars
1354
2 stars
266
1 star
72
Community All Reviews Statuses
Status GigaDeathNullGolem Dec 6, 2017
Slay your way through one's backlog like the captains of Mordor and gain the power of your ancient ancestral played shelf.
my warboss nemesis is dark souls 3. and symphony of the night is a pretty high ranking officer.
Status citizen428 Nov 14, 2017
Played the GOTY edition on PS4. Great game, I really enjoyed it, though there are some minor annoyances:
- War chief hunting gets rather repetitive.
- You can’t skip the warlord “intros”, no matter how many times you saw them already. This can get really awkward in th middle of a big battle.
- SPOILER: The final boss battle is a series of …
Played the GOTY edition on PS4. Great game, I really enjoyed it, though there are some minor annoyances:
- War chief hunting gets rather repetitive.
- You can’t skip the warlord “intros”, no matter how many times you saw them already. This can get really awkward in th middle of a big battle.
- SPOILER: The final boss battle is a series of quick time events. Did I really just spend 21h to turn myself into a mean orc fighting machine for this? 😉
I still highly recommend this game and for LotR fans it’s almost a must buy.
Status Predefiance Nov 7, 2017
Solid game, I'm finally starting to get better at it.
Status BMO Sep 16, 2017
Started having a bit more fun with the game. Once I accepted that I'm damn powerful I started to just see how far I could push it. Also I learned that I really need to advance time, to see interesting changes in the orc ranks. I suppose that's normally facilitated through the in-game death, but since I haven't died I …
Started having a bit more fun with the game. Once I accepted that I'm damn powerful I started to just see how far I could push it. Also I learned that I really need to advance time, to see interesting changes in the orc ranks. I suppose that's normally facilitated through the in-game death, but since I haven't died I hadn't see that in action.
I may also have to attribute a bit of my sour opinion of the game last night to how exhausted I was after a very long week at work. Maybe I didn't give the game a fare shake...
...or so I thought. As I reach the end of the game I'm struck with two thoughts. The fist that the Nemesis system is not quite as miraculous as I've heard some people make it out to be. After all my nemesis was a guy I met twice, who ran away once and died horribly a second time. He was one of my first kills. He wasn't particularly interesting or memorable. He also wasn't around very much. Why the game settled on this Orc as my Nemesis is beyond me. The second of my two thoughts is that the story is abysmal. It's painfully generic and really doesn't pull much from LotR other than Sauron, rings, orcs and Mordor. The characters are not especially interesting, are steeped in lazy stereotypes and the overall story could be mapped onto any old fantasy game.
I'm finishing up now and maybe my thoughts will change with the ending. We'll see.
Status Cajgamer Jul 11, 2017
4 hours in and loving this game. The story is meh, but I'm addicted to chasing down these orc captains to avenge my deaths and getting more skills. The combat is awesome, basically Arkham but Middle Earth style.
I need to do a better job in these orc strongholds, I keep getting mobbed by too many orcs, end up facing …
4 hours in and loving this game. The story is meh, but I'm addicted to chasing down these orc captains to avenge my deaths and getting more skills. The combat is awesome, basically Arkham but Middle Earth style.
I need to do a better job in these orc strongholds, I keep getting mobbed by too many orcs, end up facing 3 captains at once and then making them all more powerful when I die.
I also can't believe I'm actually interested in completing all the side missions in this game. That's a good sign for me as I only do that for games that really draw me in.
Status Intervigilium Apr 13, 2017
El sistema nemesis para la creación dinámica de enemigos dista mucho de ser perfecta. Aun así le doy un 5 como experimento en el cual se logro un mundo dinámico, embebido en el mundo del señor de los anillos lo cual no es nada facil. EL sistema de combate es muy bueno se tiene un excelente control sobre el personaje …
Read moreEl sistema nemesis para la creación dinámica de enemigos dista mucho de ser perfecta. Aun así le doy un 5 como experimento en el cual se logro un mundo dinámico, embebido en el mundo del señor de los anillos lo cual no es nada facil. EL sistema de combate es muy bueno se tiene un excelente control sobre el personaje lo cual permite aprovechar muy bien las mecanicas y combos disponibles.
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Status phillip.platt Mar 24, 2017
I want to replay this one with the new textures on my 1080ti.
Status keekins Mar 9, 2017
As an enormous Tolkien fan I found the story quite underwhelming - however, with that said, the combat was super fun. It kind of felt like Assassins Creed: LOTR. Which, as a fan of the Assasins Creed games, I didn't particularly have a problem with. I do hold issue with the treatment of women in the game, though. The female …
As an enormous Tolkien fan I found the story quite underwhelming - however, with that said, the combat was super fun. It kind of felt like Assassins Creed: LOTR. Which, as a fan of the Assasins Creed games, I didn't particularly have a problem with. I do hold issue with the treatment of women in the game, though. The female skin for Talion somewhat makes up for this, but very little. Not to mention that playing as a female and watching the cutscenes use male Talion is extremely immersion breaking.
In short, when I want just a fun combat-based game to play around with for a few hours, this is a good go-to. That's really about all there is to it, though.