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To do this he needs to identify his targets, and there are only ways to do it. Our heroвЂ™s only hope of finding peace is to kill the Black Hand, but how does he get to this fiendish sorcerer? The answer turns out to be murdering his way up the ranks of Uruk-Hai, slaughtering the captains, their commanders and the warchiefs at the top. Sadly, Talion doesnвЂ™t get to relive the same day in smalltown USA he gets to wander around Mordor slaying orcs. Instead, he finds himself trapped in a kind of limbo, alive but bound to the wraith of a long dead elf-lord, and doomed to keep coming back to life until he can avenge his kin a bit like the fantasy equivalent of Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. However, death turns out not to be the end. His fort over-run by orcs and his wife and son slain by a mysterious figure known only as the Black Hand of Sauron, Talion himself is slaughtered. Here your protagonist is Talion, a ranger charged with defending the walls surrounding Mordor just as Sauron returns to the scene.

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Key characters from the lore are bought into play and not used cheaply, and while those whoвЂ™ve studied the Simarillion will doubtless have a dozen or more complaints, those who love The Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit and the movie adaptations will find that Shadow of Mordor feels like a natural extension. The design of scenery and characters is 99% WETA and Peter Jackson, but the plot stretches deep into TolkienвЂ™s backstory, so that the tale of a ranger of Gondor, bought back from death to avenge his murdered family, has richer implications than you first expect.

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Nor, to its credit, does it wear its license lightly. And Shadow of Mordor does bring something new to the party, and while this feature sounds like a gimmick, it turns out to be surprisingly profound. Meanwhile the hard-hitting, counter-heavy melee combat is closer to the Batman style, down to the slow-mo finishers when you put down the last enemy in a gang. ItвЂ™s another free-roaming, open-world adventure with the focus on combat and stealth, and while there are elements of AssassinвЂ™s Creed in its stealth kills and free-running acrobatics, itвЂ™s much less focused on urban spaces or vertical exploration. property: the Batman: Akham Asylum/City/Origins series. In fact, it has as much in common with another Warner Bros.

While descriptions of the game as AssassinвЂ™s Creed goes to Middle Earth arenвЂ™t entirely wide of the mark, they also donвЂ™t do the game justice. ItвЂ™s hardly the worldвЂ™s most original game, but that doesnвЂ™t mean its short on thrills, drama or innovation. More importantly, itвЂ™s a whole lot better than you might expect. Shadow of Mordor is the best Lord of the Rings game for nearly a decade, though considering the competition, that isnвЂ™t really saying much. Available on Xbox One (reviewed), PS4, PC.

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