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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

September 30, 2014
Action RPG Metacritic 85

About

Lord of the rings franchise brought a new title to the collection, an open world action-adventure game, that follows Talion, Gondor captain, that survived the sacrifice that was meant to bring the Elf Lord Celebrimbor as a wraith. Losing his wife and his son, Talion is merged with Celebrimor, escaping death. Players will have to gain EXP in order to upgrade abilities through completing various missions and defeating Uruk warlords. Some missions might require special conditions for the greater reward. Shadow of Mordor implemented the Nemesis System. It tracks the progress of every special Uruk warrior. Each special Uruk has a set of strengths and weaknesses, and players can assassinate higher ranked officers in order to promote easy to defeat Uruk to defeat them at a higher rank, weakening the Sauron’s army. This planning allows players to adapt, and use mechanics of stealth kills, ranged combat, wraith skills and head-on melee more effective.

System requirements

387 benchmark observations (estimated)

Minimum requirements

Processor
Intel Core i5-750, 2
Graphics
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 | AMD Radeon HD 5850 DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 44 GB available space
Memory
3 GB RAM
VRAM
44 GB
Storage
44 GB
OS
64-bit: Vista SP2, Win 7 SP1, Win 8

Recommended requirements

Processor
Intel Core i7-3770, 3
Graphics
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 | AMD Radeon HD 7950 DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 57 GB available space
Memory
8 GB RAM
VRAM
57 GB
Storage
57 GB
OS
64-bit: Win 7 SP1, Win 8

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