Here's That Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor Walkthrough Everyone's Talking About

Assassin's Creed and LOTR had a baby.

Must resist getting hyped. Trailers that make a game look that awesome never live up to the hype.

C-. You've mastered the structure of a sarcastic comment but you haven't done a very good job of researching the subject to make sure you aren't making an ass of yourself.

There are three wizards in Middle-earth at the time when this game takes place. Unless this guy is Radagast in disguise, he cannot use magic.

Yes, I will take LotR Assassins Creed.

getting a little framey at times there...

Re-skinned Assassin's Creed with Old Spice-like narrator, alright then.

Magic in the Middle Earth universe?! Incredulous!

Wow. Hope it lives up to the trailer!

Some of the animation and move set seems straight up lifted from Assassin's.

EDIT: Yesterday, Aleissia Laidacker (a team lead at Ubisoft) commented on Twitter how a lot of the animation is basically from Assassin's Creed. The tweet has since been deleted though the remnants of it can still be found in some replies to people responding to her initial tweet. By the way, in the original tweet she wasn't at all negative about it.

Looks too much like Assassins Creed for me, I have a feeling I'll feel the AC burnout playing this game.

The dominating and wraith stuff seems cool though.

....I'm okay with this.

Boy does this not feel like Lord of the Rings at all.

Looks like we could finally be seeing a decent entry as far as games in the Lord of the Rings series. Open world for me sounds interesting, although it looks like it borrowed heavily from Assassins Creed. Not saying that will make it a bad game but seeing enemies stand around and everything kind of made me go uhhh this again. I will reserve judgement I am sure that it will turn out to be ok.

Looks infinitely better than any Assassins Creed game, and I mean gameplay.

This looks like Assassins Creed Set in Lord of the Rings universe.

Did you miss the part where he uses his wraith powers to pound the ground, creating a shockwave of ghost energy that knocks the enemies over?

That's magic, son.

You can tell that by watching this video?

This looks sick, reminds me of the Witcher games.

I dunno. I'll believe it when I see it. If this game is what it's saying it is, that's a really next-gen experience they're talking about.

After watching a bit further, the combat seems lifted directly out of the Batman games. There's an excessive amount of gore. And the main character's powers are not canonical. I'm surprised the Tolkien estate is allowing this.

TAKE MY MONEY.

Looks like a nice, violent blend of the Arkham games and Assassin's Creed, with it's own signature gameplay features. Colour me interested.

Gameplay looks potentially neat, but I can't help but be underwhelmed by the impact of the dialogue/character interaction. Hopefully, procedural content generation doesn't mean flavor gets white-washed.

EDIT: In other news, I'm still like 100% certain the wraith is Morgoth, so it'd be nice if that wasn't "the twist." Maybe make the whole thing take place in the Animus, instead.

As a Lord of the Rings fan, I'm not too enthused by this. The main character suffers from the same problem as Starkiller from Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - he's bland, he doesn't fit into the storyline, and he's too powerful. From what I've seen, this Talyan guy is matched only by Sauron and the wizards in terms of his supernatural power.

This seems like an attempt to shoehorn an Assassin's Creed style gameplay concept into Lord of the Rings. I feel like Middle-earth is better suited to an open-world RPG or maybe a Dark Souls style action game with more tactical and deliberate combat, as opposed to crazy sword ballet.

This is assassin's creed in mordor. Which sounds lovely.

Very interesting.

Yep that looks amazing

Uh ... yeah, i'll play this!

I'll have your Assassin's Creed with a side of Arkham Asylum, and extra Tolkein sauce on top please.

YUM!

Really though, it's easy to see the direct mechanics lifted from those games, but used in this specific combination feels fresh and exciting. (and to be clear, I'm not even a big LotR fan at all)

And if they can deliver on this kind of procedurally reactive narrative, it could be revolutionary.

Wall-climbing = ACII (possibly literally)

Combat = ACII + Arkham

Detective Vision (Wraith mode) = Arkham

That being said, the game looks cool, and I hope they can deliver on these things. I also hope the final protagonist isn't so damn generic.

This looks bloody great

Looks dope as fuck.