Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor is remembered for many reasons, but perhaps best of all for its Nemesis system, an incredible ...

A former vice president of Warner Bros Games has revealed the true genesis of Monolith's beloved Nemesis system.

"What does Mordor want with rings?" one grumbles. While Héra and the orcs might not know the answer to that question, audience members certainly will. Sauron's influence is beginning to seep back ...

They have gathered merely as a prelude to the glory of battle. My job in Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor is to select the orcs I wish to fight against. The trick is to find an orc who is neither ...

"How do we create a singleplayer game that is so compelling that people keep the disc in their library forever?" ...

The Nemesis System was arguably Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor’s best quality. It let you manipulate battles by working your way through the ranks of the orc army, systematically chopping it off ...

For example, if a player encountered an enemy chief orc in Shadow of Mordor and the player lost the battle, the orc would level up, remember the past fight with the player, and comment on it to ...

But the way in which we brutalize orcs isn't what Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor did best. It was the ways in which we could manipulate them. Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis system exposed us to a ...