Shadows of Mordor: Game two of Lord of the Rings
The Shadows of Mordor is an officially licensed J.R.R. Tolkien "Lord of the Rings" text adventure game based on the second part of the trilogy - "The Two Towers". You can select to play as either Frodo or Sam…
Shadows of Mordor: Game two of Lord of the Rings is an adventure developed by Beam Software, released 31 December 1987 on Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.
What Shadows of Mordor: Game two of Lord of the Rings is
Shadows of Mordor: Game two of Lord of the Rings is an adventure game developed by Beam Software and released in 1987. It was published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.. It is available on Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, Mac and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Shadows of Mordor is an officially licensed J.R.R. Tolkien "Lord of the Rings" text adventure game based on the second part of the trilogy - "The Two Towers". You can select to play as either Frodo or Sam. The game follows the plot of the book closely and many locations have accompanying illustrations. Unusually for a text adventure game, the action happens in real time: if you sit there thinking of what to do next, things will happen in the game, e.g. creatures will move from location to location.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Lord of the Rings series
Shadows of Mordor: Game two of Lord of the Rings is the fourth of 69 entries we hold in the The Lord of the Rings series. The next entry was The Crack of Doom in 1989.
What it launched against
Shadows of Mordor: Game two of Lord of the Rings launched on 31 December 1987, within three weeks of Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus and Head Over Heels.
Released around the same time: Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus, Head Over Heels.
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