You’ve got five pieces to worry about now: a sword, a dagger, a bow, armor and a hood. Unlike the first game, Middle-earth: Shadow of War gives you a lot of control over your gear. There’s a lot going on here, so check out our guide dedicated to Middle-earth: Shadow of War’s skill tree.
Skills add options to Talion’s combat, new (magic) wraith powers and add new creatures you can mind control. Some of these will unlock as you progress through the campaign, and you can purchase the rest with the skill points you earn by doing various things or gaining enough XP to level up. Talion has a robust skill tree - there are 33 skills and 87 upgrades to those skills. There’s a lot he can do with it in the first game, but it’s introduced relatively slowly in the second, so we’ll skip that for now. It’s not so much physical as it is tied to Celebrimbor’s residence in his body. For your purposes as a player, they’re no different - they’re mapped to the same button, and he’ll use whichever one the context requires. Interactive Entertainmentįor close quarters combat, Talion has two weapons: a sword and a dagger. In the second game, you start with almost all of them, and there are no tutorials. In the first game, you learn Talion’s abilities slowly. Along the way, you’ll find new abilities, gear and pieces of the story (and backstory), pick up collectibles and consumable items. You run around, jumping and climbing and slicing your way through Sauron’s forces.
Interactive Entertainmentīoth Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War are Assassin’s Creed and Arkham series-inspired open-world action games. That’s where Middle-earth: Shadow of War begins. Oh, and, in a move that will make the most hardcore Tolkien fans’ heads explode, Celebrimbor decided to forge a new Ring of Power. Talion convinces Celebrimbor to hang around and continue their buddy-cop story. Talion and Celebrimbor didn’t kill Sauron, but they did overcome some of his lackeys. Middle-earth: Shadow of War picks up shortly after the end of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. There’s a lot more that happens in the first game - other characters and tie-ins and cameos - that we won’t get into here because they don’t really impact what you need to know going into the second one. (Spoiler: They don’t kill Sauron all the way.) They spent the first game murdering and/or mind-controlling Sauron’s servants in and around Mordor until they had a final confrontation with Sauron. Talion’s fighting prowess and Celebrimbor’s wraith abilities turn them into a formidable pair. Sauron (who was calling himself Annatar at the time) guided Celebrimbor to make the Rings of Power - “Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, nine for mortal Men, doomed to die.” Celebrimbor has some guilt about the whole helping-the-Dark-Lord thing, so Talion and Celebrimbor team up to take on Sauron and his forces. During Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, we learn that the wraith is the Elf Lord Celebrimbor, the greatest Elven smith. Talion is brought back to not-quite-life by a wraith in a shared-body kind of situation. Things didn’t go great for Talion (or his family), and he wakes up dead before the first game even starts. You play as Talion, a human ranger who was stationed at the Black Gate of Mordor. Bilbo’s safely back in the Shire with a shiny new ring in his pocketses, and his “nephew” (first and/or second cousin once removed, technically) Frodo is not yet even a twinkle in Drogo Baggins’ eye (there’s still almost 30 years to go for that). Premise and some loreīoth games take place during the 60-year span between The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring. So let’s talk through everything you need to remember (or learn for the first time) in Middle-earth: Shadow of War. And the game is not exactly forthcoming with tutorials, tips or hints. It’s very hard to shake the rust off if you played the first game. It’s sequel, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, however, is not so forgiving. Three years is basically forever in the ever-changing video game landscape, so you’ll be forgiven if you don’t remember all of the ins and outs of Midde-earth: Shadow of Mordor.
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