Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

[Zyn]

 

Looks like Assassin's Creed with additions.

[TheOnlyDoubleF]

There are real cool features at all.

[Vilham]

looks like creed of the ass ring

[Minos]

Finally an Assassins Creed title I might enjoy!

[Em']

Never had patience to play AC saga... I'm hyped by this one !

[selmitto]

Coooool! I would deffo play it.

[-HP-]

What Sessler said, is exactly my feeling!

 

http://revision3.com/rev3gamespreviews/mordor-impressions

[Sprony]

Apparently more people feel it looks like AC2. More about that here. In short, former AC2 lead accuses Monolith of using AC2 code.

[FrieChamp]

Can your character fall in love with the unique personality of an orc, too? Now that would be innovative.

[PaulH]

Update from Monolith dev here:

 

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-01-24-assassins-creed-dev-questions-shadows-of-mordor-similarities

 

I do find this kind of hard to believe:

 

 

Middle-earth: Shadows of Mordor design director Michael de Plater has said an Assassin's Creed vibe "definitely wasn't something we were consciously going for".

[Chimeray]

The vertical climbing is eerily similar More so than the combat I think.

Edited January 24, 2014 by Chimeray

[Vilham]

Indeed. For me its entirely the climbing, the other aspects like fighting has completely different anims, only the air assassination looks vaguely similar.

[Warby]

i usually hate those scripted voice over narrators but this guy is pretty good! 

 

if the reviews are alright id play this. (unlike assassins creed)

[dux]

Never played any AC game - so this being in middle earth makes me interested!

[blackdog]

How can someone talk about "stolen code" this easily, have Ubi employees moved to Monolith? There are no links between the companies and the publisher is different, how could you do such thing... decompile? FFS, that's some heavy accusation, I don't think that imitating an avatar's behaviour/moves is so difficult, if that's your priority, but that's totally different than "having my code in there" :-|

And i don't think that such an outburst reflects well on Capybara Games.

 

Anyway, finally a LOTR game looking good, i could never care about the MMOs. I hope the AC similarities end on the animations, cos for as nice as AC was, i never wanted to play any of the sequels. Parkour is definitely the best thing in there, i actually have popped the game back in some lazy afternoons, just to enjoy freerunning for some half hours.