![]() Your common orc can also be grabbed and either used as a shield, repeatedly stabbed until dead, drained or interrogated. This special attack stuns the enemy, allowing the wraith to unleash a lightning fast barrage of blade strikes to finish the creature off. The Wraith Stun ability is unlocked very early on. ![]() If you have the chance you can finish the enemy whilst they are down or just keep on hitting them when they are back on their feet until they finally expire. You keep hitting your opponents until they fall. Melee combat is all about timing strikes and counter-strikes. Talion attacks using his sword, dagger and bow- for melee, stealth and ranged attacks. In order to bring us such a satisfying combat experience, the developers have managed to successfully transpose the sublimely satisfying combat from the Batman game from the streets of Gotham into the world of Middle-Earth. These are epic scraps and the game give you all the freedom you need to maintain and awesome brawl that’ll leave you breathless. If things are coming to a head you can have a few captains and maybe and warchief thrown in for good measure. You can be attacked by twenty foot-soldiers, three or four brutes and a few archers and spear-throwers off to the side. Gone are the days of cookie-cutter armies, all the bad guys in this game have a certain amount of individuality about them, and there can be so many of them. They look great and really add something to the game. The Uruk character models are amazingly realistic with scars, manky eyes and toothless snarls. During the day the blue sky reflects in the puddles on the ground and in the evening the sunshine casts an orange tinge as beams of light dance between the shadows.īut the developer’s effort when it comes to the visuals has clearly been focused on the creatures, themselves. ![]() For the most part Mordor is very generic, rugged terrain with a few similar-looking ruins set amongst some larger orc encampments.īut it does look very nice. Whilst there are a few interesting settlements, orcs were never noted for their architecture. ![]() Getting to a mission is can simply a case of running off in the right direction, or following a waypoint indicator.īeing set in Mordor, the scenery is a bit bleak. Once activated all the areas of interest are then highlighted on the map (sound familiar). Each area has a Forge Tower which must be climbed up and activated. The game starts with Talion in the land of Mordor, which is split into areas. Or to be more precise, an Uruk-Hai combat game, the enemy for the most part actually being the orc’s larger brethren. In a few words, Shadow of Mordor is basically an orc combat game. In their quest they form unlikely alliances with an orc called Ratbag, Hirgon, ranger deserter and the former ring-bearer, himself, Smeagol. The wraith starts piecing his memories together and Talion gets to lop off an incredible amount of orcs’ heads. Story wise, that’s about all you need to know. Together they head off into Mordor, one to avenge his family the other to unlock his past. Both man and wraith occupy the one body, except in the shadowy wraith world where they can both have a nice chat. Instead of joining his family in death he is resurrected and, sort of possessed by an amnesiac wraith. Players take on the role of a ranger of Gondor called Talion who, during an attack by Sauron’s forces, is executed along with his family. The game is set somewhere between the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. As a gamer, I have no problem with developers getting “inspired” by gaming mechanics that work. Quite a few notes, in fact- from both the Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry games.īut let’s not get precious about it (pardon the pun). Well, this time developers, Monolith, took notes. I remember during a conversation I had with Patrice Désilets, a good few years ago, him suggesting that the Batman games were perhaps inspired by his Assassin’s Creed games. Apart from a few tweaks, the combat is pretty much the same. Shadow of Mordor is a third-person action game very much in the same mould as Warner’s other top-selling Batman: Arkham series. To say my alarm bells were ringing as slipped the disc into my PS4 would be an understatement. I’m a bit funny when it comes to fantasy games and even funnier when it comes to movie tie-ins. Ordinarily I’d avoid a Middle-Earth game like the plague.
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