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Stories emerge procedurally rather than through cutscenes each player experiences their own tale about the one Uruk they just can’t keep down, or the enemy whose hand they cut off only to have him return with a hook for a hand. Enemy captains and warchiefs are imbued with entrancing and often hilarious character.

The armies of orcs that would normally be nameless, personality-stripped bad guys are transformed. Though it appeared in marketing materials and press events to be a tonally incoherent cash-in on a beloved intellectual property, Shadow of Mordor introduced one of the most astounding design innovations in the past decade of game development: the Nemesis System.ĭeveloper Monolith Productions has, of course, returned to the this brilliant system in Shadow of War. When Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor launched in 2014, it was a surprise, if not a revelation.

Middle-earth: Shadow of War is an extraordinary game: in its complexity, in its ambition and perhaps most of all, in its undeniable messiness.