It’s entirely possible to be on your merry way cutting a swath through a group of Orcs and then one of them locks blades with you. The Orcs have a lot of personality in their idle chatter, but the Captains take this further with their names, titles, strengths, and weaknesses. Because Orcs rarely look up and you really only have archers up so high, you’re kinda encouraged to be Batman. I got up to the top of the wall and snuck around up there, crossing over on cables and jumping across gaps and so on. A couple more tries and I decided to scale the wall outside and it turns out Talion can climb almost any surface in the game, especially fortress walls. I tried to go around but still hit a big mob. I first tried to draw out the two guards at the front and then I got into a big mob and someone called for help. The idea was to infiltrate an Orc Captain’s fortress without having one of his lackeys raise the alarm. One of the great ways the game really showed off its parkour system was in an early story quest. You’re able to sprint and still quickly move in stealth, and you can access the 'Wraith World’ through your possessor to see Orcs through walls and identify Captains and other points of interest.īut the trade-off is being blind to the rest of the world. I took Mordor as being a stealthy game and I largely stuck with the bow and dagger. Not to say that you can’t enter bullet time with your bow in the fray or shank someone in a group of course. You either take on the Orcs in direct combat with your sword, you shoot at them from afar with your bow, or you slit their throats from the shadows with your son’s broken sword serving as a dagger. Killing Orcs isn’t one of the challenges…probably.Ĭombat is split between three methods. And you can find some artifacts and get snippets of their owner’s memories from them, you can do challenge quests to ‘forge the legend’ of your weapons, and you can do minor survival quests like finding X of Y breed of herbs or kill X many creatures of Y type. Apart from doing the main missions, you can access the Forge Towers around the map to give yourself a Fast Travel anchor and see the many herbs growing in that region, you can free slaves to open Outcast missions to help humans, and you can get into the deadly world of Orc politics. Once you complete the opening sequence, you’re largely able to go anywhere and get yourself killed in a variety of ways. I had some slowdown but even in big battles, I didn’t get severe chugging. The initial benchmark had me with a scaled-down resolution but the game ran fine at 100% though I of course turned down the visuals. I didn’t think my computer could actually handle it, but once I finally downloaded it and tried it out, I was amazed at how well it ran. I honestly bought Shadow of Mordor on a bit of a whim. What’s a guy like you to do except kick ass all across Mordor in the name of revenge? Now you’re something of an undead, living and breathing but cursed to never fully die, and this ghost’s in your body too. It turns out you and your family were all sacrificed to summon the spirit of a long-dead Elf king…and he wound up possessing you. Then it cuts to a small combat tutorial with his son during better days, and you’re later given a stealth tutorial by sneaking up on his wife. The game opens up with our hero Talion waking in this strange desaturated landscape whereupon he finds the bodies of his family. I didn’t touch the DLC storylines any so this is really just for the core game itself with whatever minor bonuses the GOTY gives you there. It took me around 18 hours and 20 minutes to finish the game with 46% completion. I bought the GOTY edition of Shadow of Mordor through IndieGala for $4.99 a few months ago and only now got around to playing it.
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