Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor’s final piece of downloadable content will pit players against Sauron. The expansion, which is called The Bright Lord, will release very soon according to Monolith Productions. Michael de Plater, the game’s design director, revealed much more information in a recent interview. He said, “The big revelations we focused on in Shadow of Mordor were Celebrimbor’s backstory and his involvement in forging of the Rings of Power, connected to the fact he had been dragged back to Mordor to forge the One Ring and that Sauron used Celebrimbor’s Elven craft to give the Ring its power. And it is like Tolkien wrote: The Ring did something its master did not intend. We looked at that idea and how the One Ring had these two parents, this conflict going on within it, within the flashbacks in Shadow of Mordor as you recovered Celebrimbor’s memory. We are excited to go back and play with that and explore Celebrimbor and Sauron’s relationship more.”
The Bright Lord gives gamers the opportunity to play as Celebrimbor. Celebrimbor has received many improvements since the game launched. The studio has developed an entirely new set of combat animations, he takes less damage, and has access to more powerful abilities.
Michael provided some details about the final fight with Sauron as well. He stated, “We really wanted to create the most epic, momentous final boss fight that we possibly could. We wanted to create a crafted boss fight that players get through the nemesis system, to make up for the final boss fight against the Black Hand, which was not so momentous. This is our attempt to revisit that and have another try and do the best we possibly can at creating an epic finale.”
We can’t wait to play The Bright Lord when it releases. The content already sounds like what every fan has been waiting for. Stayed tuned to XboxMAD for the latest news about this title.
Source: Gamespot
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