Warner Bros today announced Middle-earth: Shadow of War, the sequel to the critically-acclaimed Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. Developed by Monolith Productions, Middle-earth: Shadow of War features an original story with the return of Talion and Celebrimbor, who must go behind enemy lines to forge an army and turn all of Mordor against the Dark Lord, Sauron.
In Middle-earth: Shadow of War, players wield a new Ring of Power and confront the deadliest of enemies, including Sauron and his Nazgul, in a monumental battle for Middle-earth. The open-world action-adventure game is brought to life through the expansion of the award-winning Nemesis System. The robust personalization from the first game is now applied to the entire world where the environments and characters are all shaped by player actions and decisions, creating a personal world unique to every gameplay experience.
David Haddad, President, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, said:
“Monolith Productions continues to innovate by introducing deeper, more personalised gameplay experiences, coupled with authentic storytelling. Middle-earth: Shadow of War truly drives the genre forward by taking the Nemesis System to new heights and allowing players to create their own personal journey within Middle-earth.”
Michael de Plater, Vice President, Creative, Monolith Productions, added:
“Following the amazing reception to Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, we massively expanded every dimension of the game, including the world, the story, the RPG systems, the core gameplay and of course the personal player stories of the Nemesis System. As lifelong fans of Middle-earth, we are so grateful to have the privilege to bring to life the most incredible fantasy world ever created in a new way, for a new generation. With Middle-earth: Shadow of War, we can’t wait to see the amazing stories players are going to create and share.”
The Nemesis System created unique personal stories through procedurally-generated enemies who remember every encounter and are differentiated by their personality, strengths and weaknesses. Middle-earth: Shadow of War™ expands this innovation with the introduction of Followers who bring about entirely new stories of loyalty, betrayal and revenge. The Nemesis System is also expanded to create a unique personal world through Nemesis Fortresses, which allows players to utilize different strategies to conquer dynamic strongholds and create personalized worlds with their unique Orc army.
Set between the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Middle-earth: Shadow of War continues the original narrative of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. Players will be engrossed in a richer, more personal and expansive world full of epic heroes and villains, iconic locations, original enemy types, even more personalities and a new cast of characters with untold stories.
Middle-earth: Shadow of War will be available on August 25th on both Windows Store and Steam. The Windows Store version will be an Xbox Play Anywhere title.
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incredible *_*
First game was good from what I hear (still in my backlog), but what a shame that the company who gave us IP’s like Blood, NOLF, Shogo, F.E.A.R. and Condemned is relegated to a very tapped out IP.
I have a feeling Condemned might come back in the near future with the popularity of FPS-Horror games these days and the blooming VR market. ( Especially after the success of RE7 )
Dude the first game was a blast. Hope they can deliver the same experience for this one too 🙂
I loved the first game, and I’m not even into LOTR! That’s how much fun the game was to me. Definitely getting this as soon as possible.
True that.
loved the first one ,and that nemesis system was really innovative and cool. I can’t wait for the next one to be even more complex
Okay, best I can tell, people are either trolling, or they just didn’t have the same, insufferable experience I had with the Nemesis System (somehow).
Namely, the ridiculously stupid “interrupt your combo flow with an unskippable cinematic depicting some ugly-as-f*ck Orc Boss jumping in to gang-rape you alongside 3+ more of his comrades”? >.>
That sounds like a Hentai I have seen.
I loved the Nemesis System. It provided the motivation for going on an Uruk-killing rampage. By far the most interesting thing to be conceived in a recent hack and slash game. Take that as you will.
Yeah, I liked rampaging too…. right until my combo got interrupted for the 6th time in a row by yet another Orc Boss trying to gang-rape me…….
Once that happened about 100 times, it got rather old.
The appearance of random Nemesis bosses were actually exciting, specially when you’re outnumbered, it felt as game had dynamic difficulty which is better than typical “boss sitting in a specific location”. setting. Like every system it has room for improvement yes! but it was really innovative, also if you feel really outnumbered to bosses then you can always run and comeback later.
Yeah, sure, but A*s’ Creed actually incorporated the “you’re being overwhelmed – run the f*ck away” thing pretty well into its gameplay, whereas Mordor just tries to endlessly overwhelm you with more & more mobs, unlike B:AR, even, wherein eventually they stop coming at you if you survive long enough, because you’ve cleared the surrounding area of them.
Really? “The world of men is ending.”
Lets put some SJW in games,shall we? F** off with polically correct policy in this world.
That’s been a phrase in LotR since the books.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7324a32a47eec7aa37292451f27a32eda395ffd85e33c54fc488fb0042a67dd9.gif
The Age of Inserted Minorities, on the other hand…… is in full swing >.>
So yeah, original poster was half-right, he just got the wrong part of the trailer down.
P.S. Yay, Balrog with wings… cue fan rage in 3, 2, 1……
If you’re referencing the black dude in the trailer then I can see why people are getting mad and upset about it. Coming from a black guy it came as a shock to me the moment the camera made that close up shot of him. But as it turns out after doing a little research there are indeed people of various backgrounds in the lore established by J. R. R. Tolkien himself, who also appeared in the old trilogy movies. A completely different culture that really hasn’t been covered all that much.
I really think people shouldn’t jump into conclusions right away and call it a PC move. Like what someone has said in the comments on Youtube.. The moment they make black elves and so on that’s when you should suspect that they’re trying too hard to throw in modern conventional standards. Although I’m not against the idea of black elves at all, it just doesn’t fit the theme of Tolkien’s fantasy.
Do you honestly go looking for these sorts of things where they don’t exist? Or are you just insecure?
As some of today’s policy is politically correct,I feel as politically insecure with this kind of game. 🙂
Political correctness has nothing to do with it. It’s an actual reference in LOTR. So I suggest you keep lame politics out of it.
it looked like the ring went up his bunghole
Yeah, because I was wearing my c0ckring.
I said this because there was no mention of Windows 7 on the video they posted on Youtube, only Windows 10 you f*cking f*ck.
Shadow of Mordor 2: Orclectric Boogaloo
That’s kind of the issue though. Whether Tolkien was a racist or not, to depict a group of blacks and other so called minorities to fight alongside with orcs against those who reside at Middle-Earth (which is pretty much ancient Europe I’m guessing) would paint a bad image in this day and age. Especially with things currently happening right now. It’s hard not to look back at Tolkien’s work and assume that he could of thrown in some racist agendas behind the cultures which contained “people of colour”. If he mentioned that not all of those outside of Middle Earth were corrupted by Sauron then I’m sure people can easily accept that.
However with the way they promoted this game so far I can easily agree with you and many others that there might be some form of SJW agenda happening. Only time will tell. Yeah the comic strip nails the problem with the way some people in the west think. Just bare in mind most of the time when you see people act like that they’re just a vocal minority, they don’t represent every individual of course.
Never realised how drawfs kinda resemble Jewish people after reading that lol.. Maybe just a coincidence.
Lol’d.
Also, as people oh-so-conveniently forget, these books were written almost 100 years ago, so they’re not ever going to be “politically correct” according to the “inclusivity standards” of the 21st century, & so on & so forth.
But yeah, if this keeps up, soon we’re going to have a problem admitting that the pre-Muslim Persian Empires used to be the enemies of Ancient Western Civilization, “because racist.” >.>
Also yes, though Tolkien’s Middle-Earth assembles various Pre-Renaissance European ages & cultures/civilisations together into one big melting pot, rather than just attempting to faithfully replicate one, specific European time period &/or race, the way, say Game of Thrones does (& kinda fails, too, to be entirely honest, anyway >.>).
“… the return of Talion and Celebrimbor”
Doesn’t that sound too much like Celebrity Bimbo???
Well, eventually you’ll have to start using Windows 10. Hate to say this, but Microsoft’s gonna be pulling the plug on Windows 7 pretty soon, it may not be now, but it’ll be soon in a few years.
Yeah, & Microsoft pulled the plug on XP how long ago, exactly? That went so well for them, didn’t it?
Windows 7 will fade into the background, eventually, sure, that’s inevitable, but the question is; who’ll give in first; Microsoft with their “Windows Spyware as a Service”, or the F*ck You Microsoft Crusade?
Exactly. Windows 10 is already dead, Microsoft just needs to accept it, call time of death, & move on already – or, rather, move back, to what they were doing before this absurd “merge everything together!” ideology came along.
Oh, & bring back Aero while they’re at this, because this new sh*t is fugly as Hell.