{"id":4897,"date":"2017-03-08T09:14:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T16:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/middle-earth-shadow-of-war-wants-to-capture-the-epic-scale-of-lord-of-the-rings\/"},"modified":"2017-03-08T09:14:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T16:14:11","slug":"middle-earth-shadow-of-war-wants-to-capture-the-epic-scale-of-lord-of-the-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/middle-earth-shadow-of-war-wants-to-capture-the-epic-scale-of-lord-of-the-rings\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle-earth: Shadow of War wants to capture the \u2018epic scale\u2019 of Lord of the Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2014\u2019s Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor<\/em><\/a> was a great game in its own right, cheap<\/a> taking the fantasy world of Tolkien and translating it into a compelling, sale<\/a> brutally violent action experience. But for Michael de Plater, pills<\/a> VP of creative at developer Monolith Productions, it was also a starting point \u2014 one the team is looking to expand upon significantly with the upcoming sequel, Shadow of War<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Shadow of Mordor<\/em> being our first third-person, open-world action game, we were learning a lot,\u201d he explains. \u201cAnd as a result, there were a lot of limitations around what we could achieve in terms of scope. This was our ambition to do the big, blockbuster version of the ideas we\u2019d begun to explore in the first game. It\u2019s kind of our Terminator 2<\/em> to T…<\/em><\/p>\n

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2014\u2019s Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor was a great game in its own right, cheap taking the fantasy world of Tolkien and translating it into a compelling, sale brutally violent action experience. But for Michael de Plater, pills VP of creative at developer Monolith Productions, it was also a starting point \u2014 one the team is… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t