Middle-earth: Shadow of War (2017) [PC ANA KONU] (2. sayfa)

The demo ended there, but I made sure to ask about upgrades to the Nemesis System, because that’s probably why you’re reading this, and I honestly can’t blame you. Here’s what I found out:

In Shadow of Mordor, orcs didn’t really have much personality after you dominated them and turned them to your side. This time around, there’ll be a greater focus on a wide variety of orc interactions. Friendships can be just as powerful and lasting as rivalries. As we learned in the demo, however, you’ll probably want to be careful about betraying your big green battle buddies. Some of them will take it very personally.

Orcs have relationships with each other, too. They can be rivals, or they can have blood brothers that they feel especially bonded to. They can also possess hates, fears, and reactions not only to things like fire and poison—as they did in the first game—but also what happens to their master, their best friend, or you.

Monolith is focusing on making individual orcs memorable in multiple ways. They’re focusing a lot on when and why orcs confront you. Visually, meanwhile, they’re expanding the possible palette of options significantly. For instance, where Shadow of Mordor might’ve given you an orc with basic facial scars, Shadow of War will give you one that’s got scars on his face and body, and also maybe he sustained serious burns, which means he’ll react strongly to fire. Instead of attacking you entirely at random, he’ll likely appear when there’s fire involved. Basically, Monolith is trying to make these player-created narratives flow more naturally while simultaneously expanding the ways in which they can occur.

In Shadow of War, there are multiple orc tribes with different characteristics and specialties. For instance, the Feral Tribe specializes in hunting, trapping, and using monsters in battle. Depending on which tribe an overlord orc belongs to, their fortress will be entirely different.

Your orcs don’t always have to be by your side. You can even send them away to do missions, assassinations, and things of the like.

You won’t be able to dress up or customize your orcs. Reason being, Monolith wants orcs’ appearances to be representative of their stories, not your decisions in a menu.

In terms of structure—I can’t really get into the specifics of the Nazgul, other than that they’re in the game right now. But there is a wide variety of enemies you get to encounter. We’ve shown a few. We showed the Olog-Hai. We showed our drake. But back to structure, it’s an open-world sandbox game. There’s going to be all kinds of emergent missions occurring based on the story campaign, based on side missions, and based on your interactions with the AI and the nemesis system. More gameplay opportunities are going to present themselves. You’ll be doing a number of different things within each region. Just one of your goals is taking down these fortresses, one of the big meta-goals.