Middle-earth: Shadow of War - Desolation of Mordor

Middle-earth: Shadow of War - Desolation of Mordor is an adventure game developed by Monolith Productions and released in 2018. It was published by WB Games. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Middle-earth: Shadow of War - Desolation of Mordor is the 59th of 69 entries we hold in the The Lord of the Rings series. The next entry was Middle-earth: Shadow of War - Definitive Edition in 2018. Its critic score of 75 is almost exactly the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring at 91.

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Middle-earth: Shadow of War - Desolation of Mordor holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points above the year average.

Middle-earth: Shadow of War - Desolation of Mordor launched on 8 May 2018, within three weeks of God of War, God of War (2018), Detroit: Become Human and Detroit: Become Human. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: God of War, God of War (2018), Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human.

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