Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is a open world third-person action role-playing video game developed by Monolith Productions and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, which takes place in the…
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is an adventure developed by Monolith Productions, released 30 September 2014 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It currently starts at $3.99 at Steam. The main story takes about 17.9 hrs to finish.
What Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is an adventure game developed by Monolith Productions and released in 2014. It was published by WB Games. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on LithTech 6. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
You are Talion, a Ranger of the Black Gate, keeping watch over Mordor which has remained undisturbed for ages. In the blink of an eye, everything is taken from you – your friends, your family, and even your own life. Resurrected by a mysterious vengeful spirit, you must now embark on a relentless vendetta against those who have wronged you.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, open world and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 74 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the The Lord of the Rings series
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is the 48th of 69 entries we hold in the The Lord of the Rings series. The next entry was Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor - Lord of the Hunt in 2014. Its critic score of 84 is 10 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring at 91.
How it was received
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 82, across 1,413 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 17.9 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 56.7 hrs, roughly 3.2 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $3.99, that works out to about $0.22 per hour of the main story, or $0.07 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-750, 2.67 GHz | AMD Phenom II X4 965, 3.4 GHz, 3 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 | AMD Radeon HD 5850. At 3GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 44GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $3.99 at Steam, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor launched on 30 September 2014, within three weeks of Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, Bayonetta 2 and Destiny. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, Bayonetta 2, Destiny.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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