By now, Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor has won over the hearts and minds of many a player, so we suppose that it's the perfect time to reveal the title's latest slice of downloadable content, Lord of the Hunt.
Promising hours of new story content, the DLC missions will see you team up with eager dwarf Torvin, as you hunt down newly added wildlife and slaughter a host of new Beastmaster Warchiefs, who sound rather intimidating to say the least. These fresh enemies will apparently need to be thrown off their mounts before you put them to the sword, which should be fun, considering protagonist Talion himself can ride on the back of various creatures.
It sounds like a pretty meaty slice of content, as it aims to populate the wilderness with new beasts like the poison spitting graug, and stealthier caragor known as caragath. You'll also be given the ability to dominate ghuls, and use groups of them to support your endeavours in battle, all while wearing a new Lord of the Hunt skin.
The DLC will be free to those who purchased the season pass, and, reportedly, it'll set you back $9.99 if you plan on buying it alone. Are you still enamoured with the game's orc infested world, or have you moved beyond the dreary lands of Mordor? Dodge and weave through entire ugly armies in the comments section below.
[source eurogamer.net, via kotaku.com]
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More Torvin? I'M IN.
I haven't played much yet but do you mean there are other scenery settings in this game other than mordor? Or is this coming in the dlc? Thanks
I really enjoyed this but am now struggling to finish it, about 80% of the way through and trying to do all the side missions etc. But it just become very much "samey" unfortunately. Trying hard to resist just doing the final 3 story missions and calling it a day. It is still a good game (which I have recommended), but not sure I will rock up for DLC at this point as it has struggled to hold my interest to the very end.
"The DLC will be free to those who purchased the season pass" - Isn't that the definition of season pass?!
@Zep_Fan_81 Are you referring to this part?
"have you moved beyond the dreary lands of Mordor"
By that, I just meant other games. I believe the whole game takes place in Mordor.
@ShogunRok lol, my bad, yes I see what you meant.
Damn I really do love some of the green or snowy vistas in the movies, guess thats for another lotr game... I like shadow of mordor, ive only just put some hours in, underwhelmed at first and hardly touched since getting day1 but I really get this game now,its got a wow factor to the combat, I like this it a lot.
May get it, after I've finished with the game.
@Zep_Fan_81 Yeah, sorry if it was a bit confusing.
One of the only criticisms I've heard about the game is like what you said — that the open world is a little bland.
am i the only person who was underwhelmed by this game? its an extremely small and dull map imo. not much really going on. i bought it thinking i was gonna go adventuring skyrim style, never knowing what might be around the next corner. i i thought id be wandering through forests, mountains, fields, creeks etc etc, but it seems to be a bunch of mostly flat(ish) land lacking variety. its like having one level to play the entire game on. im glad everyone else in the world loves it, i just wish i did too. ive heard that there is another part of map that opens up but that its even smaller than the main one. id hardly call this an open world game, more like an open area game. ok whining done
I got this on the premise its combat is like Batmans.
Batman remains the best but this is fun.
Im not a LOTR fan at all, so half expected it to be ok at best for me, I was wrong!
The story is decent, the combat is satisfying and you really do feel like a supernatural badass without feeling overpowered.
Top class, one of the best games this year.
I really like the look of this from a gameplay perspective, but as others have mentioned I just can't get over the fact that in all of the screens / gameplay vids I've had a look at, there just doesn't seem to be any real variety to the environments. Given the potential I would have thought the lore provided, that just seems like a bit of a missed opportunity. I'll get it, but will probably wait for the price to slide a bit first.
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