Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Now Available on Steam
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Monolith's action RPG based in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings universe, has now become available around the world for PC players utilising Steam's digital store.
"Fight through Mordor and uncover 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 chronicle of Middle-earth." Those who are jumping on the PC version will find the game weighs in at roughly 38GB, so be prepared for a long download. Also note that enthusiasts wanting the best graphical performance will be required to run at the very least a system holding 6GB of VRAM for ultra textures (@1080p). You can find out more about the system requirements over here. For the uninitiated, check out the latest trailer below giving a great overview of what to expect from the depths of Mordor. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor will be out on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One and Xbox 360 come October 8th. |
02:10pm 30/09/14 Permalink
This is actually getting some really good reviews, I was expecting it to be pretty average
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02:39pm 30/09/14 Permalink
For people interested in grabbing it on console (or XBox at least, I haven't checked PS4 but I assume it'd be the same), it doesn't release till the 8th of October in our region, but if you switch your region to the US you can not only get it cheaper, but you can get it right now.
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11:30am 01/10/14 Permalink
It would be fine with a controller, it's got full integration. Mostly melee combat. Plays abit like batman arkham series
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01:44pm 01/10/14 Permalink
picked it up for $29 which was sweet. can't get onto it tonight but hopefully blast a bit tomorrow!
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02:28pm 01/10/14 Permalink
This is actually getting some really good reviews, I was expecting it to be pretty average Games that get good reviews 'after' release in 2014 are typically good. |
02:43pm 01/10/14 Permalink
I can't attest for them as I haven't bought from them before but they frequent on ozbargain.com.au and seems like the place peeps from whirlpool are getting it from. Not sure on their stock as I didn't get it straight away but might be overnight. I can't really play next day or two so long as i get it by the weekend, should be all good and at $29, I couldn't care less either. http://cdkeyshere.com/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordo If you want, I'll update you when I receive the key. They've got a facebook, twitter and respond to the comments in the ozbargain too so figured i'd give em a go. Apparently the normal edition ran out and getting more keys in the next 24 hours. Premium version is apparent instant. |
03:40pm 01/10/14 Permalink
Got it from CJs just now for 35AU (think the 27 on that link is USD?). They had regular keys available straight away for 35.
Had to do a dodgy Russian VPN unlock, but I can confirm that their VPN unlock instructions were nice and clear, worked fine for me and cost nothing, installing! :) e: why cant I have teh NBNs at home :( http://i.imgur.com/DeTPMBd.png |
04:24pm 01/10/14 Permalink
heh, they removed the australia tax on steam.
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07:45pm 01/10/14 Permalink
yeah I was surprised to see that steam price isn't ridiculously high its actually a 'fair' price, will be getting it at some point in the next few months watch a TB video on the game today, the game play looks really good
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07:56pm 01/10/14 Permalink
The whole nemesis thing is pretty sweet, one of the orcs killed me and got a promotion and became a captain. When I respawned I chased him to his stronghold and since I had previously used intel I got from interogating another orc to find out he was vulnerable to ranged attacks, I snuck inside his stronghold and took him down with an arrow through the eye.
Then a bit later I'm just fighting dudes and the same guy turns back up and he now has a steel plate bolted over the eye I shot him through and is all "Your arrow left a mark, but f*** you, you didn't kill me, I'm back". So I shot an arrow through his other eye. |
11:52pm 01/10/14 Permalink
A friend got the HD Textures and at 1080 he was up in the 3.6GB VRAM mark. It looked like vomit too.
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09:03am 02/10/14 Permalink
The nemesis system is extremely awesome, and I'm the game is the same as well. Hopefully with its success it will be exactly like Batman in that we'll get reiterated mechanics but new areas to explore. Mordor is massive, and they could do so much in the Lord of the Rings universe. Can not wait.
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09:22am 02/10/14 Permalink
When its raining, it looks amazing. I mean, graphically, all the effects on everything making it look wet are all sexy and nice, but the atmosphere is just awesome, stealthing around f*****g s*** up in the middle of a huge thunderstorm, roiling stormclouds over head, everything dark and gloomy. It nails the fantasy its going for.
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11:03am 02/10/14 Permalink
Best captain kill for me was when I was sneaking in to a place to kill another captain.
Saw this orc coming my way so shoot him in the head with an arrow and then got the "captain down" cut scene slow motion thing. Turns out he was someone who had killed me a few times already and was level 10 or something. |
11:28am 02/10/14 Permalink
The slow motion little 'clash' scenes when you come against a captain are pretty cool too. A few times I've been in big fights with heaps of orcs and just go to counter a guy and end up face to face with him in one of those scenes with him smack talking me. Gives it a real feeling of "Oh yeah, s*** just got real"
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11:40am 02/10/14 Permalink
I didn't really know about this game until last week, but from everything you guys have been saying plus the reviews it seems really awesome. Will definitely pick this up at some point.
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03:18pm 02/10/14 Permalink
My only complaint is.. the game is abit too easy. But, still enjoyable. I find myself being reckless in strongholds because i'm confident i'll survive anything.
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03:29pm 02/10/14 Permalink
Vash let yourself die a few times to the same enemy. Things will get harder.
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03:34pm 02/10/14 Permalink
Not sure about a review just yet, but I definitely agree with that Steam one. Personal review is this game is by far the best action RPG I've played for awhile. It nails the Mordor fantasy setting, it nails the combat in being easy to understand but difficult to master and it absolutely nails the Nemesis system which just feeds in so much new content each time I play.
I'm a massive Batman fan, and love love love the Arkham games, but Middle-earth is definitely a contender on that ladder of awesome games. Get it and play it and love it. |
09:59am 03/10/14 Permalink
I love how the different bosses have fears you can exploit too, I've had a few cool unplanned things happen cos of that. Last night I had stealth assassinated some dudes, and another patrolling orc found the corpses, and totally freaked out and just turn around and blindly ran terrified into the middle of a campfire and set himself on fire. Then he ran around screaming and burning and ran near a boss who was terrified of fire so the boss freaked the f*** out and did a runner, right into some wild caragors, which tore him a new a****** and I got a free boss kill and a rune out of it.
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10:37am 03/10/14 Permalink
totally freaked out and just turn around and blindly ran terrified into the middle of a campfire and set himself on fire. Had a guy do that for no reason at all. No caragors, no dead bodies. Just straight up ran through a fire and set himself a lit. Another Orc just stayed sitting near the fire watching. |
10:47am 03/10/14 Permalink
They nailed the Orc feeling from the books. They just don't care about their own kind at times, even had some laugh at bodies they've found. Hah that's awesome. Clearly you never played any of the PS2 games, they were awesome especially Return. |
11:25am 03/10/14 Permalink
I don't remember any awesome Lord of the Rings games tbh. Some were above average, and at times pretty good considering the history of licensed movie tie-ins being generally awful, but I wouldn't go anywhere near awesome. This one is easily the best thing they've done with the IP
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12:04pm 03/10/14 Permalink
Agreed. Best LOTR game to date.
I found a way to make it more challenging, i just go straight for the warlords without taking out the bodyguards. 5-6 captain fight with the stronghold alarm going, fun times. |
12:12pm 03/10/14 Permalink
I don't remember any awesome Lord of the Rings games tbh. Some were above average, and at times pretty good considering the history of licensed movie tie-ins being generally awful, but I wouldn't go anywhere near awesome. This one is easily the best thing they've done with the IP Two Towers and Return of the King games are AMAZING co-op games. Played the hell out of them ... but yeah, outside of that and LOTR:O, there haven't been many good games. Only played an hour last night but that entire hour my internal dialog was nothing but "F*** YEAH!" haha. Can't wait to play the hell out of it this weekend. |
12:17pm 03/10/14 Permalink
I am addicted to this game, and haven't been so compelled to wander since the early days of Skyrim. Just happening upon a random Captain, scouting ahead and finding a worm to squeeze is far too satisfying. Not to mention the combat, which just has me fist pumping the air every time I do a lethal takedown. The visual are also extremely nice, best Mordor I've seen so far.
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12:00pm 07/10/14 Permalink
I love the Brutalize stealth takendowns, I've got the rune in my dagger that makes them more terrifying too so I love just diving off a ledge into a big group of guys and ripping the f*** out of one of them with a Brutalize takedown, then the others crap themselves and all run away screaming. Great way to single out an intel guy if hes in a big group, cos then you just shoot at arrow at the intel guy's foot as hes running away and pin him to the ground, then stroll over and wraithf*** the information out of his head. And I've got the ability that makes people's heads pop after you finish draining them, so thats usually enough to terrify any orcs left over who weren't terrified by the initial assault.
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12:12pm 07/10/14 Permalink
Wow tempted to get this game based on the exciting this forum has for the game
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12:25pm 07/10/14 Permalink
Haha, I haven't had an orc with this name, its great when he comes out as Warchief and everyone is chanting it
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11:32pm 24/10/14 Permalink
